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  • TStv to begin commercial operation November 1

    TStv to begin commercial operation November 1

    Telcomm Satellite Television (TStv) said on Saturday its newly inaugurated pay TV, TStv Africa, would begin commercial operation on November 1.

    Its Managing Director, Mr. Bright Echefu, stated this during chat with journalists in Abuja.

    Echefu said TStv would launch its services with about one million decoders nationwide.

    He said at least 5,000 decoders of TStv would be released to the public next week for free, adding that it would use the first set of decoders with one month free subscription to test run its services.

    He said: “Commercialization of our decoders will resume officially on November 1 and by that time, every part of Nigeria would have TStv decoders for people to buy.

    “We are releasing about one million which can go round and our target for the first quarter is one million units.

    “In every quarter we will bring one million units and we are targeting four million units within the next one year.

    “I can tell you categorically that some decoders will be released next week for Nigerians to test and we are going to cover the 36 states of the federation.

    “These decoders are going to be free and it close to 5,000 units to test and that will last for two weeks.”

    Echefu said the delay in releasing the decoders to the public was to ensure that dealers were properly scrutinized so that the decoders do not fall into wrong hands.

    He explained that the decoder would be sold to Nigerians at a subsidized rate.

    According to him, the landing cost of the decoder is N28,000.

    “We don’t want a situation where someone would pick our decoders and dump them somewhere.

    “That is why we are very careful because of competition.

    “We have received well over 6,000 applications and it has been overwhelming processing these people. But so far, we have been able to accredit more than 748 dealers and we have received applications from more than 3,000 of them.

    “That is why we have not commercialized our services even though we are the ones losing because we have enough decoders to cover the whole of Nigeria.

    “But it will be unfair with all the money put in for us to give decoders out and those decoders don’t get to the end users,’’ Echefu added.

    NAN

  • Exclusive: Fraud Uncovered in Proposed Launch of Digital TV Services By TSTV

    Exclusive: Fraud Uncovered in Proposed Launch of Digital TV Services By TSTV

    The high expectations among Nigerians for an alternative to satellite television provider, DSTV has been shattered as the company that raised their hope, TSTV is unravelling owing to failure to obtain the necessary broadcasting and redistribution rights to the channels included its bouquet.

    In spite of officially launching on October 1, 2017 as heavily promoted, potential subscribers were soon disappointed as only dummies of TSTV’s set up boxes were symbolically unveiled at the event attended by Minister for Information, Alhaji Lain Mohammed. Subscribers have been told to wait indefinitely for commercial sale of the devices.

    The company, after the launch, issued a warning to would be subscribers not to pay for the set top boxes yet and to beware of scammers since it has not started selling the advertised devices. It said on its social media handles that “We wish to inform the general public that the commercial sale of TStv Africa decoders has not commenced and there is no request from TStv Africa to subscribers for payments of any kind whatsoever for decoders”
    “The public is hereby advised to disregard any instructions from any person(s) to make payments.”
    Details provided on its website indicated that “TStv Africa is a wholly owned Nigerian innovative Pay TV Operator with refined offerings of novel Pay As You View (PAYV) subscription, pause subscription, complimentary internet service, Video call and an array of amazing TV channels with premium entertainment, informative and educative programs that cut across all genres.”
    But documents exclusively obtained by The Nigerian revealed that TSTV is promising Nigerians what it does not presently own or have a right to. Several content owners have issued cease and desist order to the company, which effectively prevents it from launching its much-advertised products.
    beIN, a Qatar-based global sports entertainment group, which is the exclusive licensee of the broadcast rights to many international sporting leagues and other entertainment content, had written TSTV on September 28, two days before the launch notifying it of infringement on exclusive broadcast rights.
    The letter, titled “Illegal Pirating of beIN Content Cease & Desist,” raised the issue of “Intellectual property infringement by TSTV”, which has 10 of beIN’s channels forming the bulk of its sports offering.
    Turner Broadcasting System Europe Limited, Owners of a leading international news channel, CNN, also hit TSTV with a similar order one day before beIN. CNN warned that it has not given TSTV the rights to rebroadcast its channel as part of its bouquet contrary to the promotion of CNN on the new company’s website.
    “The distribution and broadcast of this channel without authorization will infringe our intellectual property rights and constitute acts of piracy. This would amount to unlawful use, which will infringe the rights and harm the interest of our company, and cause us substantial prejudice.
    “In this context, we invite you to undertake in writing not to distribute CNN, and not to use or reproduce the channels’ trademark on any advertising or promotional material.
    “In the absence of your confirmation should you include CNN within your channel line up we will take the necessary and appropriate measures and bring civil and criminal judicial actions in order to protect our rights,” the letter signed by a Director, Eleanor Browne warned.
    Meanwhile, a source in one of the regulators copied in the letters disclosed that there are several other cases and desist notices to TSTV in which the organization has been copied. The source, who does not want to be identified because he is not the official spokesperson, told The Nigerian that there is confusion as to why TSTV rushed to launch its services when it has no agreement with owners of the content it is promoting.

  • TSTV: Subscription rates, Terms and Conditions, Others

    TSTV: Subscription rates, Terms and Conditions, Others

    Following the launch of  Nigeria’s first digital TV. TSTV, Social media has been on frenzy and it is no doubt that Nigerians are interested in knowing everything  about this new TV.

    Below, is a detailed list  and links of all you need to know about TSTV

    TSTV did not just surface, there are faces behind it. Meet the face and partners behind TSTV!

    http://staging.thenationonlineng.net/meet-face-behind-tstv/

    http://staging.thenationonlineng.net/tstv-see-its-owner-and-partners/

    FG grants tax reliefs to TStv Africa

    http://staging.thenationonlineng.net/fg-grants-tax-reliefs-tstv-africa/

    Intrestingly, TSTV Subscription fee ranges from N200, N500, N1000, N1500, and N3000. Intrestingly, it requires that you pay as you consume.

    http://staging.thenationonlineng.net/tstv-bouquet-subscription-table/

    However, before you consider subscribing to it, there are lots of speculations going on about how their services would be delivered.

    http://staging.thenationonlineng.net/conditions-you-may-not-know-about-tstv/

    TSTV has over 200 channels ranging from sports, kids,fashion, news, music, movie etc. See list of channels below:

    http://staging.thenationonlineng.net/list-channels-available-tstv/

    The question arises, will TSTV trigger competition in pay-per-view?

    http://staging.thenationonlineng.net/will-tstv-trigger-competition-pay-per-view/

    Two international content providers, Turner Broadcasting System Europe Limited and belN, have accused TELCOMM SATELLITE TV (TStv) of infringing their exclusive distribution rights to certain television programmes.

    http://staging.thenationonlineng.net/two-content-providers-accuse-tstv-copyright-infringement/

     Content provider beIN claims copyright infringement

    http://staging.thenationonlineng.net/tstv-content-bein-copyright-infringement/

    TSTV replies beIN’s allegation

    http://staging.thenationonlineng.net/content-infringement-tstv-replies-beins-allegation/

     

  • Recruitment exercise NOT ours- TSTV

    Recruitment exercise NOT ours- TSTV

    TSTV Africa has reacted to the purported recruitment exercise, allegedly been handled by the company.

    In a facebook post made on its official page and obtained by our reporter, TSTV said the recruitment exercise is not theirs and should be disclaimed.

    It also shared their official social media handles for verification, complaint and request.

    PUBLIC NOTICE!!
    The attention of TStv Africa has been drawn to an online publication about an ongoing recruitment exercise purportedly carried out by the organization.
    We wish to state for purposes of emphasis and clarity, that TStv Africa has not authorized any recruitment exercise as being published.
    Prior to the commencement of a recruitment exercise by TStv Africa, an official announcement will be made with respect to that on our official website and social media handles.

    Facebook: tstvafrica
    Twitter: @tstvafrica
    Instagram:@tstvafrica

  • Will TSTV trigger competition in pay-per-view?

    Will TSTV trigger competition in pay-per-view?

    On October 1, a new pay-per-view Tv,TSTV, made its debut in Abuja. Experts say the new entrant into the industry may boost offerings in the industry. OLUFEMI BABALOGBON writes.

    It took Nigerians 57 years to have Independence,” proclaims a poster on the Instagram page of TSTv, the new entrant in the Pay Tv Market.

    On October 1, Nigerians, particularly on social media, celebrated the launch of the first pay-per-view multichannel Tv platform in Nigeria, TSTv.

    TSTV did not only attempt to disrupt the market in the country but all over Africa, as its subscription is pay per view.

    Though Mutichoice, the owner of DSTV and GOTV platforms,  said it would not operate pay-per-view, it had changed its marketing strategy, apparently in response to a threat by TSTV.

    As TSTV was launching, Multichoice was unveiling its #GOTVMax, a bouquet with channels, such as Select Sports 4, CBS Reality, and Fox.

    However, public perception seems to be swaying in favour of TSTV.

     

    Consumer perception

    The consumer perception  details how the consumer receives a marketing message and processes it. TSTV’s messages, which are marketing stimuli, only came to be accepted after the consumers have sent the stimuli through their physiological and psychological screens. The physiological screens are the five senses and interpret the message to the consumer.

    The screens evaluate the product based on self-interests and intrinsic needs. This is where TSTV got it right by bundling internet data with Pay TV offerings. Nigerians need two things to survive: cheap/free internet and electricity.TSTV is giving internet data as cheap as N300 for 1GB and 10GB internet free  monthly subscription!

    The consumer has perceptual files, called the mind. The files are previous experiences of engaging various brands. This means the memory of using GOTV or Startimes exists in the consumer’s mind and the consumer will evaluate TSTV’s service delivery relative to these previous experiences. The perceptual files, also known as the mental files play a role in the consumer Perception process and the outcome can either be brand adoption or brand switch.

     

    The TSTV Movement

    However, recent recession (2015-2017) has taught Nigerians that the best way to alleviate Forex pressure is to patronise“made-in-Nigeria” products. Also, series of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa has impaired the public relations of South African businesse, such as Shoprite, MTN, and DTSV. Thus, Nigerians are happy to have an indigeneous brand playing in the sector.

    The TSTV movement is the ordinary Nigerians giving support to the brand and often de-marketing other Pay TV platforms.

    Bahdmus Hakeem, social media influencer and founder of @TheInfoNG,  tweeted: “The least we can do is to support TSTV. We cannot, I repeat, we cannot allow it to die like HiTV”.

    Also, the government is supporting TSTV, by giving the company three-year tax holiday. This, the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed explained, was geared towards growing the creative industry.

    With all these support coming from Nigerians and the government, experts said TSTV is starting on a good footing.

  • Meet the Face behind TSTV

    Meet the Face behind TSTV

    Social media has been on frenzy since the arrival of TSTV and as it seem, most Nigerians are looking forward to owning one soon.
    With the TSTV Africa hype, I had always pictured a bald headed, thick and old looking man. However, it will interest you to know that Bright Echefu is a handsome looking young man from Obowo in Imo state.

    Bright Echefu the CEO of Nigeria’s first digital TV. TSTV Africa, studied at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN where he bagged a degree in medicine before proceeding abroad for further studies.

    As a multi-talented person, He is the Managing Director of Bricke and Athens Limited, he owns AHTV- Health Television, he is also the chairman of Briechberg Investment Limited owners of Bright FM, and also seat in the board of Bright Joy Multi ventures Limited.

    Bright Echefu is a Medical doctor and a biomedical engineer and a recipient of numerous award such as 3rd African young scientist award in South Africa, youngest physician award of excellence, world who is who endorsement among others.

    The man behind TSTV is not just handsome, he is talented, versatile and also an award winning person. I am sure ladies are out there looking out for him. But sorry to disappoint you, He is taken! He recently got engaged to Florence Esu.

  • Two content providers accuse TStv of copyright infringement

    Two content providers accuse TStv of copyright infringement

    Two international content providers, Turner Broadcasting System Europe Limited and belN, have accused TELCOMM SATELLITE TV (TStv) of infringing their exclusive distribution rights to certain television programmes.

    They said TStv did not have the rights to air the Cable News Network (CNN) channel, owned by Turner Broadcasting System and the 10 beIN Sports channels it advertised on its website.

    But responding swiftly on its Facebook page, TStv said the letter was fake and designed to create a bias against their product in the minds of Nigerians.

    Turner Broadcasting System, in a September 27 letter to the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), claimed exclusive distribution rights to the CNN channel in English.

    It said: “In this respect, the distribution and broadcast of the above-mentioned channel in Africa including in Nigeria has to be authorised by us in advance.

    “The distribution and broadcast of this channel without authorisation will infringe our intellectual property rights and constitute acts of piracy.

    “This would amount to an unlawful use, which will infringe the rights and harm the interests of our company, and cause us a substantial prejudice.

    “In this context, we invite you to undertake in writing not to distribute CNN, and not to use or reproduce the channels’ trademarks on any advertising or promotional material.

    “In the absence of your confirmation should you include CNN within your channel line- up we will take the necessary and appropriate measures and bring civil or criminal judicial actions in order to protect our rights.”

    In its September 28 letter to the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), beIN claimed there was no contractual agreement between it and TStv that would give the company the license to beam its contents.

    It said: “We have become aware that your company TSTV intends to launch a pay television service to subscribers in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa generally. Information about this service is contained on the website at htt-z tstvafrica.cbm.”

    The Qatar based firm said it invests substantial sums in acquiring those rights, “which are highly valuable.”

    “Other parties are not permitted to copy and re-broadcast belN Content without express authorisation.

    “belN is also the owner of trademarks and other rights in the name belN and associated branding (‘belN Trademarks’). Other parties are not permitted to use belN Trademarks without express authorization.”

    But in rejecting both claims, TStv stated: “We are not unaware of the messages circulating the social media regarding letters from belN Sports and Turner respectively. We wish to inform Nigerians once again that the letters being circulated are fake. They were designed primarily to bias Nigerians. Kindly disregard the said frivolous letters. TStv Africa… connecting your world!”

    Last Sunday the Federal Government granted TStv Africa, a three-year tax relief and tax free dividends to all investors in the company.

  • TSTV: See its owner and partners

    TSTV: See its owner and partners

    • ABS, Telcom Satellite limited are TSTV partners

    So by now it is assumed that everyone already knows about the latest Pay TV platform in town, Telcom Satellites TV (TSTV).

    If you don’t, then its high time, you did.

    Read: BEWARE…Terms and conditions you may NOT know about TSTV

    Having done that, we also need to know about ABS. ABS, short for Asia Broadcast Satellite, is a communication satellites operator, based in Bermuda, and owned by Permira, which is a European private equity firm with services that include satellite-to-home and satellite-to-cable TV distribution, cellular services, and internet services.

    It has in the past established telecommunications network in Africa, Russia, Asia and the Middle East, having a service network that currently covers 80% of the population in the Americas, Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, and Commonwealth of Independent States.

    ABS and Telcom Satellites TV (TSTV) recently signed a multi-transponder agreement to deliver a Direct-to-Home (DTH) Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcast service into Nigeria on ABS’ -3A satellite, Africa beam which is located at the prime video neighborhood of 3°W.

    Also: TSTV Bouquet Subscription Table

    Its journey began in the year 2006, with the successful acquisition of the Lockheed Martin Intersputnik-1 (LMI-1) satellite by ABS which was promptly renamed ABS-1 satellite.

    Then in the year 2010, Permira, along with the ABS management team acquired ABS from Citi Venture Capital International and Asia Debt Management.

    Here in Nigeria, ABS is in business under the name TSTV, but operates under the company name TELCOM SATELLITES LIMITED, as TELCOM SATELLITES is registered under the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Laws of Nigeria.

    And: TSTV: Subscribers divided over Pay Tv charges

    TSTV sure knows the terrain and is definitely here to stay, going by the statement of its C.E.O, Bright Echefu

    “We’ve successfully ran African Health Television for more than 5 years without hitches. We have no doubts whatsoever that TSTV would offer an excellent and affordable digital satellite television services to Nigerians.”

    Dr. Bright Echefu

    But wait, did i hear Bright Echefu?, who is this guy, to think he is Nigerian? Does he have what it takes to stay in the industry, in the face of strong  competitors like DSTV, StarTimes?

    • First, Bright Echefu is a Nigerian, from Obowo in Imo state.
    • He is the MD/CEO of Bricke and Athens limited owners of AHTV-Heath Television, who have brought Telcom Satellites TV (TSTV).
    • He had been in that position from November 2014 till date. This means he already ha 2 years 11 months of work experience.
    • He also attended the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka,before leaving to pursue further studies abroad.
    • He is the chairman of Briechberg Investment Limited,owners of Bright FM.
    • He is also on the board of Bright joy Multiventures limited.
    • He got skills that include Strategic Planning Research, Nonprofits Public Speaking, Program Management, Fundraising Program Development.

    and the best of all,

    • He is newly married.

     

  • TSTV Bouquet Subscription Table

    TSTV Bouquet Subscription Table

    TSTV Subscription fee ranges from N200, N500, N1000, N1500, and N3000. Intrestingly, it requires that you pay as you consume.

    Features of TSTV Decoder
    • 200+ Channels,
    • Pause, Record and Play back Feature
    • Free Wifi: 20GB Free data
    • Inbuilt Camera for video calling
    • Affordable subscription
    and 50GB storage space.

    TSTV Subscription Table

    Bouquets                          Price                         Data
    Monthly Bouquet            N3, 000                       10GB
    Two weeks Bouquet       N1, 500                         5GB
    Ten Days Bouquet          N1, 000                        3GB
    Weekly Bouquet              N750                            2GB
    Three Days Bouquet       N500                           1GB
    Daily Bouquet                  N200                          500MB

  • List of channels available on TSTV

    List of channels available on TSTV

    TSTV SPORTS CHANNELS

    Star Sports
    Fox Sports
    Euro Sports News
    Euro Sports 2
    Kwese Sports 1
    Kwese Free Sports
    Kwese ESPN
    MS Extreme
    bein Sports MAX 4HD
    bein Sports 3HD
    bein Sports Global
    bein Sports MAX (bein Sports 1-10)
    TS Sports 4 HD
    TS Sports 2
    TS Sports 3
    Yolo Sports HD

    TSTV MUSIC CHANNELS:

    Trace Urban/Africa
    HITS TV
    MTV Base
    TLC (HD)

    TSTV NEWS CHANNEL:

    BBC America
    CNBC
    Aljazeera
    BBC Radio 2
    TVC News
    Sky News
    Arewa24
    AIT
    Core TV News
    France 24 (English)
    CCTV News
    Channels TV
    Bloomberg Television
    DW
    Fox News
    TRT World
    Press TV
    NTA
    Arise News
    TV360 Nigeria

    TSTV KIDDIES CHANNELS:

    Nickelodeon
    CN Carton Network
    Disney Channel
    Boing
    JimJam
    Baby TV
    TS Junior Kids HD
    Fix Fox
    Panda Biggs

    TSTV MOVIE CHANNELS:

    Star Movies
    MBC Action
    MBC 2
    Star Movies
    African Movie Channel Series (African Magic)
    Liberty TV
    MBC Bollywood
    Wazobia TV
    WAP TV
    Viasat Life
    Fine Living
    FOX
    FOX Life
    Investigation Discovery
    MBC 4
    MBox HD
    PCTV
    Star Gold HD
    Nollywood TV
    Z Cinema
    E Entertainment
    BEN Bridging The Gap
    BET
    TS Novella
    TS Movies HD
    TS Series

    TSTV SCIENCE CHANNELS:

    Discovery Channel
    Nat Geo Gold
    AD
    National Geographic
    Discovery Health TV
    TSTV FASHION CHANNELS

    Fashion One
    AHTV

    TSTV RELIGION CHANNELS:

    Dove Television
    Emmanuel TV
    Sunna TV
    Mountain Of Fire And Miracles Ministries
    EWTN – Global Catholic Network
    TBN Network

    TSTV AFRICA CHANNELS:

    Riwa Ndu TV
    TS Hausa
    TS Igbo
    TS Yoruba
    TS Sports 1 HD