Showing posts with label Lee Raftery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lee Raftery. Show all posts
Monday, October 17, 2022

Universal+ boss Lee Raftery on the launch of NBCUniversal's catch-up service in Africa: 'Pretty groundbreaking'.

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by Thinus Ferreira Universal+ arrived on Friday 14 October in South Africa  and across sub-Saharan Africa in partnership with MultiChoice, b...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

MultiChoice adds NBCUniversal's on-demand service Universal+ to DStv Catch Up from 14 October.

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by Thinus Ferreira Universal+ will be added to MultiChoice's DStv Catch Up service from 14 October as an on-demand video streaming servi...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

NBCUniversal renews South Africa's Celebrity Game Night for season 4 on E! Africa with Anele Mdoda, Ayanda Thabethe and Jason Goliath returning.

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by Thinus Ferreira NBCUniversal International Networks has renewed its South African version of celebrity game show Celebrity Game Night pr...
Monday, March 14, 2022

MultiChoice adds DreamWorks kids channel from NBCUniversal International Networks to DStv.

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by Thinus Ferreira MultiChoice has expanded its kids entertainment offering, adding the DreamWorks channel from NBCUniversal International N...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Here be Dragons: StarTimes adds NBCUniversal International Networks' DreamWorks animation kids channel for Africa and on StarSat in South Africa.

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by Thinus Ferreira China's StarTimes pay-TV operator in Africa has added the 24-hour DreamWorks kids animation channel from Monday ...
Monday, April 6, 2020

MultiChoice expands access of NBCUniversal International Networks' E! Entertainment channel to DStv Compact subscribers in South Africa from 14 April 2020.

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by Thinus Ferreira NBCUniversal International Networks' E! Entertainment (DStv 124) channel is getting wider carriage with MultiCho...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

E!'s Celebrity Game Night game show starts filming this week with Anele Mdoda as presenter; Jason Goliath and Ayanda Thabethe as team captains.

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Anele Mdoda will be the presenter of the 10-episode game show, Celebrity Game Night on E!  (DStv 124) that will start filming this week ...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

NBCUniversal International moves Lee Raftery to newly-created position as managing director for the Africa, Europe and Middle East region.

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NBCUniversal has moved Lee Raftery to the newly-created position of managing director for the Africa, Europe and Middle East (EMEA) regio...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

MultiChoice content boss, Aletta Alberts, on 15 years of E! from NBCUniversal International Networks on DStv: 'Africans will continue to be part of the E! story'.

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Aletta Alberts , MultiChoice's content boss, has congratulated NBCUniversal International Networks on the anniversary of 15 years of ...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019

E! commissions new 10-episode show, Celebrity Game Night, produced by Rapid Blue, as its next localised African series; production starting July for broadcast in late-2019.

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E! Entertainment (DStv 124) has commissioned Celebrity Game Night as a local South African version of the American game show, Hollywood ...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

NBCUniversal International Networks changing the Universal Channel to UNIVERSAL TV with a new colour palette and new on-air look.

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After 8 years, NBCUniversal International Networks (NBCUIN) is again changing the brand name and look of its flagship general entertai...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Universal Channel adds new female Canadian police procedural drama series, The Detail, to the African schedule from 5 June.

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NBCUniversal International Networks has acquired the TV rights to the new drama series,  The Detail , from Entertainment One (eOne) for S...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Lee Raftery replaces Colin McLeod at NBCUniversal International Networks; job expanded to look after NBCUIN's channels in Africa.

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NBCUniversal International Networks (NBCUIN) has named Lee Raftery as the replacement for the long-serving Colin McLeod who left earlie...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

BREAKING. The colour purple (it's called 'Blackberry') comes to the Universal Channel as the channel refreshes its whole look.

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The Universal Channel (DStv 117), the number one international entertainment channel in South Africa on MultiChoice's DStv satelli...