This archive report was first published on 2 August 2021.
On August 2, 2021, StarTimes, a leading pay television platform, announced the introduction of new entertainment and fashion content offerings to its subscribers.
The new content includes Fashion TV Africa, a channel that showcases Africa's taste for style and culture, featuring unique shots of brilliant flair and highlighting quality, African-themed productions.
With over 500 hours of content updates per year, Fashion TV Africa will take fashion enthusiasts on an active circuit in the African fashion industry, providing a direct and rapid reserve for local content production and marketing featuring the diverse cultures only found in Africa.
Subscribers can look forward to flagship content including major influential shows such as MISS South Africa, Africa Top Models, African celebrities, and fashion models, while also featuring themed events, fashion weeks, and fashion parties.
StarTimes Regional Marketing Director, Mr. Aldrine Nsubuga, noted, "The Fashion TV Africa channel will showcase Africa's taste for style and culture."
Additionally, StarTimes has introduced one of the most popular Philippine dramas, 'Brothers', which is airing on ST Novela E plus channel every day of the week from 8:50pm.
"Brothers" revolves around crime, action, and romance, and is one of the longest running Philippines dramas with more than 600 episodes produced so far and over 100 awards to its name since the launch.
StarTimes has also rolled out a new horror-fantasy drama, 'The Blood Moon', where viewers will enjoy the twisted and fictional story on ST Novela E plus channel every day of the week from 9:40 pm.
Top-billed by the popular love team of Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla, the series also features special participation of International Emmy-nominated actress Angel Locsin from the original 'She-Wolf'.
Mr. Nsubuga concluded, "We are progressively putting efforts towards enriching our subscriber bouquets with a diversified content genre as we further cement our place as the most affordable pay television platform with an enviable range of premium content for the whole family television viewing experience."
