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Subscribers to Canalsat Horizons in 23 African countries can now access the BBC’s radio services in English and Arabic. Canalsat Horizons is broadcast by Multi TV Afrique, a subsidiary of Media Overseas, Canal+ Group. Multi TV Afrique has reached agreement with the BBC World Service whose radio programmes are now heard on channel 108 (English) and on channel 109 (Arabic) within the Canalsat Horizons package.
The 105,000 current subscribers now enjoy a range of BBC programmes including news, documentaries and analysis, 24-hours a day, seven days a week, in English and Arabic. The package is available on a subscription basis in: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. |