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- More ways in, the same people listening – September 2026Social media has more than doubled as a source of news across Africa in a decade. Yet the share of Africans who regularly follow the news has barely moved. That second number is the one broadcasters should be planning around. In April, Afrobarometer published Dispatch No. 1173, titled “How Africans get their news is changing… Read more: More ways in, the same people listening – September 2026
- Recommended reading: when the voice of the voiceless is silenced – August 2026This month, instead of our usual market note, we want to point you towards someone else’s writing. Between 28 June and 28 July 2026, Nation Media Group, one of East Africa’s largest independent media houses, was forced off air in Uganda for a month. It has since resumed operations. Writing in the Nile Post, and… Read more: Recommended reading: when the voice of the voiceless is silenced – August 2026
- Zimbabwe – Six channels, one signal – June 2026Zimbabwe ended sixty years of television monopoly by licensing six new channels. Look at who owns them, and at who was turned away, and a different picture of the market emerges. Last month the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) published its 2026 State of Press Freedom in Southern Africa review, and it rates Zimbabwe’s… Read more: Zimbabwe – Six channels, one signal – June 2026
- Kenyans stop paying, but they’re still watching – May 2026A 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
- South Sudan profile – Apr 2026Don’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