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To measure TV audiences<\/strong> and awareness ratings, Africanews (http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/) relied on Kantar TNS' expertise through its Africascope survey conducted in 8 French-speaking African countries and 9 capital cities<\/strong> representing more than 18 million individuals, aged 15 and above.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n According to the survey, Africanews' audience is young and more affluent than the average of the target population. The majority of its audience are men, who account for 64% of Africanews' viewers in these eight countries.<\/p>\n The survey conducted in eight countries **, also reveals that Africanews' awareness is now 45% up 6 points from 2016. This growth is captured by a weekly audience of 3.2 million viewers.<\/p>\n Africascope also highlights the strong TV audience in all countries surveyed, with an average 90% of people aged 15 and over watching television daily, which amounts to 16.4 million viewers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Outstanding rates for Africanews in Congo Brazzaville and Gabon<\/strong><\/p>\n Barely two years after its launch, Africanews is widely acclaimed in Congo Brazzaville where awareness of the channel reaches 78%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Since its launch, Gabon<\/strong> has been very receptive of the new Pan-African and multilingual news outlet and the awareness rate remains exceptional at 68%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In the Democratic Republic of Congo<\/strong> and Cameroon<\/strong>, Africanews also enjoys strong awareness levels of 50%<\/strong> and 46 %<\/strong> respectively.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Elsewhere in French-speaking Africa, the awareness of Africanews continues to see a steady growth. 40%<\/strong> of respondents have heard of the channel in Ivory Coast, 35%<\/strong> in Senegal<\/strong>, Burkina Faso<\/strong>, 33 %<\/strong> and 29%<\/strong> in Mali.<\/strong><\/p>\n Michael Peters, CEO of Euronews and President of Africanews <\/strong> *<\/strong>Africascope 2017 (January-December) in 8 countries.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n **<\/strong>Countries surveyed: Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou), Cameroon (Douala and Yaoundé), Congo (Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa), Gabon (Libreville), Ivory Coast (Abidjan), Mali (Bamako) and Senegal (Dakar).<\/p>\n Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Africanews.<\/i><\/p>\n For further information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n Press Office<\/strong> Euronews Group press office<\/strong> – Lydie Bonvallet – t +33 (0)4 28 67 05 35 Lydie.Bonvallet@Euronews.com<\/p>\n Follow us on Twitter @africanews and @euronews _group<\/p>\n About Africanews<\/strong> Source<\/a> To measure TV audiences and awareness ratings, Africanews (http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/) relied on Kantar TNS' expertise through its Africascope survey conducted in 8 French-speaking African countries and 9 capital cities representing more than 18 million individuals, aged 15 and above. According to the survey, Africanews' audience is young and more affluent than the average of the target population. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8377],"tags":[258,256,4696,4554,8378,8379,8381,257,254,8380],"class_list":["post-18398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-congo","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central-africa","tag-congo","tag-congo-news","tag-congo-republic","tag-congo-brazzaville","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-congo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“Since its launch, Africanews, as the first pan-African and multilingual media outlet, has been offering to its viewers, innovative and qualitative content produced by Africans and broadcast from our headquarters in Pointe-Noire, Congo. This dedicated offer to a rising continent has resonated with local people who year after year renew their confidence for access to a relevant, credible and independent information.”<\/p>\n
Solange Bodiong Chauwin
Communication Officer
t +242 06 460 86 98
solange.bodiong-chauwin@africanews.com<\/p>\n
Africanews (www.Africanews.com), launched in 2016 (digital in January, TV in April), stands out as the first pan-African multilingual media source produced simultaneously in French and English, and offering coverage of African and global news from a sub-Saharan perspective.
Today, Africanews TV is available in 38 countries and 11.7 million homes across sub-Saharan Africa thanks to major pay-tv players and national channels (partial broadcast). The Africanews signal covers sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean islands via two satellites: SES 4 and SES 5.
Africanews’ digital platforms, available around the world, highlights the challenges and opportunities of a connected Africa:
africanews.com (bilingual), two YouTube channels (in English (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/africanews) and French (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/africanewsfr) and Facebook (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/africanews.channel) and Twitter accounts @africanews and @africanewsfr and also a bilingual mobile application available on App Store (http:\/\/apo.af\/FAuc49) and Google Play (http:\/\/apo.af\/qcTVAe).
Africanews is a 100% Euronews subsidiary. Africanews adheres to the same editorial charter as its European sister channel, Euronews.<\/p>\n
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