Broadcast services provider ECS has signed a deal to deliver to deliver the OH TV network throughout Africa.

ECS collects the OH TV signal at a London point of presence, sends it by fibre to the uplink station and uplinks the signal to the Spacecom’s Amos-5 pan-African satellite.

OH TV is a London-based TV network providing contemporary entertainment that reflects the black experience worldwide.

“We are proud to extend our agreements with OH TV and enlarge their viewing audience to every corner of Africa,” said ECS CEO EranAvni. “ECS offers cost effective solution for broadcasters from the UK and Europe seeking distribution for their content over Africa. Our turnkey operation is opening a huge market for UK and European broadcasters enabling to reach a tremendous viewership with their content.”

Africa-based broadcasters and Africa-centric content channel operators can use a satellite located over Africa, downlink facilities in the UK and access to the OH BoX IPTV platform to extend their distribution over Africa and Europe.

“Our advanced service offers local and regional broadcasters in Africa a new opportunity for covering all Africa and growing internationally. We can bring them to various cable headends around the continent, UK, Europe and US. Working closely with OHBoX’s IPTV Platform, the channels will be available on laptops, tablets, smartphones and computers around the world,” said ECS CEO Eran Avni. “The keys to our turn-key solution are the top edge technologies we use to compress and distribute content that enable our partnership to bring excellent pricing to the market. This is the ECS edge.”

London-based OH TV describes itself as an international TV network providing contemporary entertainment, which reflects the black experience worldwide. ECS provides distribution and broadcasting services for video, audio and data, covering Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, North and South America and Australia.