A 79.4% drop in pay-DTT subscribers in a single year. Behind the headline is a more useful story about where Kenyan attention has actually gone. When we first saw the numbers reported on Tuko, Kenya’s largest digital news publisher, we assumed there was a mistake. A 79.4% drop in active pay-DTT subscribers, the GoTV and… Read more: Kenyans stop paying, but they’re still watching – May 2026

Don’t overlook South Sudan as a broadcast market. Mention the world’s newest country and most people picture famine appeals, refugee camps and civil war. But that isn’t South Sudan today, as it approaches it’s 15-year anniversary this July. Since independence (9 July 2011), it has built two regulators, passed three media laws, licensed a national… Read more: South Sudan profile – Apr 2026

Showmax was supposed to prove that Africa could build its own Netflix. Instead, CANAL+ is closing it down. The Market Is Not Enough Showmax, MultiChoice’s OTT streaming service, was Africa’s big bet on homegrown streaming. It ran into a simple problem: it was just too expensive. Too expensive for viewers once you add the data… Read more: No Time to Stream – March 2026

Uganda’s TV Screens went black for a month. What went wrong? In broadcasting, a few seconds of black screen and silence is a disaster. In October 2025, every free-to-air television station in Uganda went dark for nearly a month. The national signal distributor, Signet Uganda, could not get its hands on its own transmitters. The… Read more: TV in Uganda – Mar 2026

State control in the age of digital disruption – Radio remains the dominant medium in Zimbabwe, reaching over 60% of the population. But decades of state control have left the sector struggling with a credibility deficit. New legislation now threatens to extend that grip into the digital age. Jukwa looks at what is shaping, and… Read more: Radio in Zimbabwe – Feb 2026