AREWA24, the leading Hausa language entertainment and lifestyle channel in Nigeria, announces the launch of its new Kano-based multi-set studio and a slate of new shows and formats starting in Q2. The new studio will support a re-branded Breakfast Show (“Gari Ya Waye”), a new sports roundup show (“Sports Central”), and a new set for AREWA24’s popular Kannywood Magazine show (“Kundin Kannywood”), as well as for the “Kannywood Movie Review.” The channel is also relaunching its signature health, medical and wellness show with a new format and host, (“Lafiya Jari,”), which it is producing in Abuja. Rounding out the new slate of entertainment and lifestyle programming is Season-3 of “Haske: Matan Arewa” which profiles extraordinary women of Northern Nigeria.
AREWA24 will also premier dozens of new Kannywood movies throughout the year.
In addition to the new AREWA24-produced shows, the channel is bringing its viewers a new Zee World Series, “Bhagya Lakshmi,” a new popular Turkish drama, “Prisoners of Love” and a slate of new Bollywood movies. Like all of AREWA24’s international licensed programming, all of the series and Bollywood movies are character-dubbed into Hausa at the AREWA24 dubbing studios.
Says Aisha Lawal, AREWA24’s Executive Producer of the new Breakfast Show, “AREWA24’s viewers deserve the best presentation possible and we have been working hard for months to light up our new multi-set studio. Our new Breakfast Show will be a treat for our audiences with not only a new set and a new daily format, but with our terrific new anchor presenters, Naomi David and Muhammad Abubakar Suleiman.”
AREWA24 was launched in 2014 to fill a glaring void of locally-produced Hausa language entertainment and lifestyle programming that reflects pride in Northern Nigerian life, culture, music, film, art, cooking and sports. Today, AREWA24 is available to over 80 million Hausa speakers in Nigeria and West Africa through its Eutelsat satellite free-to-air broadcast, and, in Nigeria, on the StarTimes pay bouquet (channel#138) and on the two Multichoice pay platforms, DStv (channel #261) and GOtv (channel #101).
ABOUT AREWA24: AREWA24 (arewa24.com) is the country’s first all-Hausa-language satellite television channel produced locally and fully dedicated to Northern Nigerian family entertainment.
AREWA24’s dedication to promoting Hausa-language television content has filled a gap for Hausa speakers in Nigeria and around the world, many of whom are tuning into AREWA24.com’s digital online viewing platforms as a way to connect with their home and culture. AREWA24’s original productions are also uploaded weekly to youtube.com/AREWA24channel, and the channel benefits from active audience engagement across its digital platforms at AREWA24.com, facebook.com/AREWA24, Instagram.com/AREWA24channel, and twitter.com/AREWA24channel. For additional information please contact: info@arewa24.com
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AREWA24 Announces The Launch Of Its New Original Drama And Film Division
AREWA24, the leading Hausa language family entertainment and lifestyle television channel and production studio in Nigeria and West Africa, announces the launch of its new Original Drama and Film Division. The new company production division will develop, script and produce a slate of new original drama series and feature films, telling authentic African stories from Northern Nigeria and West Africa in both the Hausa language and in core English.
AREWA24’s production studios already produce and broadcast the two most popular and highest rated Hausa language drama series in Northern Nigeria and West Africa, “Dadin Kowa” which is in it’s 25th season, and the channel’s runaway hit political thriller, “Kwana Casa’in” (“90 Days”), which just concluded production on Season-7. Several new original drama series are currently in development and the company will be debuting its first originally-produced premier feature film in Q4 2022.
“AREWA24” has been developing some of the finest Nigerian writers, producers, directors, editors and actors since the channel launched eight years ago,” says Jacob Arback, AREWA24’s CEO. “We are now positioned to be a major Pan African producer of scripted, authentic African content – – for Nigeria, for Africa and for viewers in the West who are becoming more and more exposed to the unique and compelling stories being told in high-quality dramas and films from the Continent.”
Leading the new Original Drama and Film Division is Evans Ejioju, an experienced and talented industry veteran who has been the executive producer of Kwana Casa’in since its first season. Salisu Balabare, the current director of Kwana Casa’in and longtime director of the Dadin Kowa drama series, will head up creative direction for the new division. Bob Reid, a well-known Emmy-award winning executive producer with Discovery Networks and the former EVP and Programming Executive at The Africa Channel in the U.S., is on board as a production consultant and executive producer of AREWA24’s original drama and film productions.
With the creation of this new Original Drama and Film Division, AREWA24 will leverage its own production resources and expertise, as well as look to partner with top creative talent from throughout the world, and with the major global streaming services, to develop and produce an expanding slate of scripted narrative content.
“Our goal is not just to create ever more popular and successful dramas for our core Hausa-speaking audiences,” says Arback. “Some of what we produce might not air first on AREWA24. Going forward, we plan to create a slate of content that appeals to viewers throughout Africa and the rest of the world. The new production division will enable us to tailor content to suit those broader targeted audiences. To do that, we plan to produce authentic African content in English as well as in Hausa and take on more provocative subject matter across a wide range of program genres.”
ABOUT AREWA24 (https://arewa24.com/company-overview/): AREWA24 and its production arm, AREWA24 Productions, was launched in 2014 to fill a glaring void of authentic, locally-produced and high-quality Hausa language entertainment and lifestyle programming that reflects pride in Northern Nigerian life, culture, music, film, art, cooking and sports. Today, AREWA24 reaches 40+ million Hausa speakers in Nigeria and West Africa through its Eutelsat satellite free-to-air broadcast, on the StarTimes payTV bouquet (channel#138) the two Multichoice payTV platforms, DStv (channel #261) and GOtv (channel #101), the payTV platform TSTV (#361) and on the Canal+ payTV service (channel #285) in Niger, Chad and Cameroun. AREWA24 benefits from active audience engagement across its digital platforms at AREWA24.com, facebook.com/AREWA24, and Instagram.com/AREWA24channel. AREWA24 also operates a global streaming service, AREWA24 On Demand in partnership with Vimeo.
To subscribe to the global streaming service, AREWA24 ON DEMAND, go to http://tv.arewa24.com or download the app from the IOS App Store, Google Play, Apple TV, Roku Channel Store and Amazon Fire TV.
For additional information please contact: info@arewa24.com
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CANAL+ INTERNATIONAL sun sanya tashar AREWA24 a jerin tashohinsu.
CANAL+ INTERNATIONAL ya cimma yarjejeniyarta da tashar nishadantarwa da tsarin rayuwa a Najeriya, wato AREWA24.
Tashar wadda aka bude a shekarar 2014 don haskakawa tare da fito da al’adun Hausawa, AREWA24 na isa ga masu kallo da ke magana da harshen Hausa sama da milyan 80 a yammacin Afirka.
Tashar AREWA24 na gabatar da shirye-shirye masu nishadantarwa da tsarin rayuwa da dama, iri daban-daban, Kama daga shirye-shiryen Gari Ya Waye da na Mata da Matasa da shiryeshiryen Hip Hop, da Fina-finan Kannywood da shirin “Kundin Kannywood” da Girke-Girke da kuma Shirn al’adu da shirye-shirye na musamman.Haka kuma shirye-shiryen talabijin na tashar AREWA24 sun hada da shirye-shiryen kiwon lafiya, da shirin yara da kada-kaden gargajiya da kuma wasannin kwaikwayo daban-daban na kasashen Indiya da Turkiyya masu dogon zango, wadanda duk aka fassarasu cikin harshen Hausa. Tashar nishadantarwa a Najeriya, AREWA24 na nan a kan na’urar tauraron dan adam ta Canal+ kan tasha mai lamba 285, wadda zata fara daga yau. Don haka ne, wannan sanarwa ke kaddamar da bude sabon rukunin tashohin talabijin a kasar Nijar.
Kamfanin CANAL+INTERNATIONAL yana kokarin ganin ya kara matsowa kusa da abokan huldarsa na Najeriya, domin fitar da hanyar biya musu bukatunsu. “Muna farin ciki da muka samun damar fadada shirye-shirye masu inganci da muke samarwa. Tashar AREWA24 tasha ce da ta ke samar da shirye shirye masu inganci tun daga shekarar 2014.
A halin yanzu CANAL+INTERNATIONAL ta iso kasar Nijar kuma muna fata mu bawa masu basira a kasar damar kaiwa ga dukkanin kasashen dake magana da harshen Faransanci a nahiyar Afirka. Manufarmu ita ce tallata nasarorin da Najeriya ta samu da kuma kulla wata alaka tsakanin bangarori daban-daban na nahiyar Afirka.” A cewar Cheikh Sarr, Babban Jami’in Canal + ta kasar Niger. “Mun yi farin cikin samun hadin guiwa da CANAL + INTERNATIONAL wajen nuna shirye-shirye masu inganci da harshen Hausa ga abokan huldarsu. Muna da tabbacin cewa shirye-sjiryenmu za su zaburar tare da nishadantar da sabbin masu kallonmu a kan CANAL + a kasar Nijar kamar yadda suke yi a tsawon shekaru biyar da suka wuce a Najeriya.” A cewar Celestine Umeibe, Shugaban sashen tallace-tallace na tashar AREWA24.
Game da AREWA24 : Za a iya sauke shirye-shiryen tashar AREWA24 a kowanne mako a kan youtube.com/AREWA24channel. Ku kasance da masu kallon tashar AREWA24 da ke k kafafen sada zumunta a kan: AREWA24.com, da https://facebook.com/AREWA24, da Instagram.com/AREWA24channel, da kuma twitter.com/AREWA24channel.
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Al Jazeera And AREWA24 Partner To Dub Documentaries And Series Into Hausa For 40+ Million Viewers In Northern Nigeria And The Sahel
23 November, 2021. Doha/Lagos. Al Jazeera English documentaries and series, dubbed into the Hausa language, will soon be available to AREWA24’s 40+ million viewers in Northern Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon through a new Distribution Agreement recently concluded between Al Jazeera and AREWA24.
This distribution agreement will make Al Jazeera’s English language programs available via AREWA24’s Free-to-Air Satellite channel and via the region’s major PayTV services: DStv, StarTimes, CANAL+ and TSTV and on AREWA24’s global streaming service, “AREWA24 On Demand.”
“We are very pleased with this agreement as it makes Al Jazeera English’s content available to new audiences in a large part of Africa in their own language,” said Acting Executive Director of Global Brand and Communication Division, Ramzan Alnoimi. “We are looking forward to expanding the distribution of Al Jazeera content dubbed in other languages in the future.”
AREWA24 CEO, Jacob Arback, said: “the Al Jazeera brand and its outstanding programming will be very well received by AREWA24’s Northern Nigerian and West African audiences.”
“We couldn’t be more excited about this new partnership, Arback added, and about being the first television network to broadcast Al Jazeera’s high-quality programs in Hausa, a language spoken by over 90M people in Nigeria and West Africa.”
AREWA24 and its production arm, AREWA24 Productions, was launched in 2014 to fill a glaring void of authentic, locally-produced and high-quality Hausa language entertainment and lifestyle programming. The AREWA24 television channel reaches more than 40 million Hausa speakers in Nigeria and West Africa and the Kano and Lagos-based company is now among the leading Pan-African television, production, content-distribution and media companies.
Nigeria is one of Al Jazeera’s key markets in Africa. This agreement, unprecedentedly, allows Al Jazeera-produced content to be dubbed into Hausa and be available to a much wider and diverse audience in the region.
ABOUT AL JAZEERA ENGLISH: Al Jazeera English Channel provides international news and current affairs that places people at the heart of the story, rooted in the belief that everyone has a story worth hearing. Through its fearless journalism and award-winning programming, it tells authentic stories about people everywhere, without geographical or cultural prejudice. Since launching in 2006, Al Jazeera English has garnered international praise for its impartial and fact-based reporting, winning prestigious awards from journalism’s most respected institutions. With headquarters in the Middle East and correspondents in 69 bureaus around the world, it offers a fresh perspective on global news. From developed to developing markets, it adds local context through an on-the-ground presence in as many places as possible. Today, Al Jazeera English reaches more than 350 million households in over 150 countries (as of February 2020), delivering bold reporting that informs, empowers and challenges perceptions.
For more information, please click here https://www.aljazeera.com/
ABOUT AREWA24: AREWA24 and its production arm, AREWA24 Productions, was launched in 2014 to fill a glaring void of authentic, locally-produced and high-quality Hausa language entertainment and lifestyle programming that reflects pride in Northern Nigerian life, culture, music, film, art, cooking and sports. Today, AREWA24 reaches 40+ million Hausa speakers in Nigeria and West Africa through its Eutelsat satellite free-to-air broadcast, on the StarTimes payTV bouquet (channel#138) the two Multichoice payTV platforms, DStv (channel #261) and GOtv (channel #101), the payTV platform TSTV (#361) and on the Canal+ payTV service (channel #285) in Niger, Chad and Cameroun. AREWA24 benefits from active audience engagement across its digital platforms at AREWA24.com, facebook.com/AREWA24, and Instagram.com/AREWA24channel.
For more information on AREWA24: https://arewa24.com/company-overview/ and to contact us: info@arewa24.com
