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YFE’s Fix&Foxi lands on Moreplex TV

German company Your Family Entertainment (YFE) and Lagos-based direct-to-home (DTH) pay TV platform Moreplex TV have partnered to make international kids’ channel Fix&Foxi available in English on Moreplex across sub-Saharan Africa.

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Moreplex subscribers will be able to watch the Fix&Foxi channel, which offers entertaining and educational content suitable for children of all ages and their families, as well as Kartoon Genius!, the new two-hour branded programming block of exclusive and first-run animated content on the channel.

John Okorocha, CEO of Moreplex TV, said: “Moreplex TV is excited to have Fix&Foxi on our platform. We are sure that Fix&Foxi’s rich variety of kids-safe entertaining and educational programmes will complement and complete Moreplex TV.”

Armin Schnell, executive VP at YFE, added: “We are very excited to start our cooperation with Moreplex TV and to make Fix&Foxi available in even more African territories. I am certain the customers of Moreplex TV will enjoy the high-quality and entertaining content we offer on our channel.”

Moreplex TV is owned by Moreplex Television and licensed by Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission. It provides channels that are unique to Africans but also have an international appeal. It offers free-to-air, free-to-view and pay TV services across DTH, DTT, OTT and VoD platforms, and is available in 10 countries, with some 100,000 subscribers.

The news comes soon after the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) acquired the first two seasons of teen sci-fi drama series The Tribe, which made its debut in 1999, from YFE at the end of last month.

The series follows a group of young adults as they struggle to survive in a world where all the adults have been killed by a mysterious virus. Filmed in New Zealand, the show originally aired on Channel 5 in the UK between 1999 and 2003, and was produced by Cloud 9 Screen Entertainment Group.

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Germany’s Fix&Foxi arrive on Africell

German children’s and youth entertainment company Your Family Entertainment (YFE) has agreed a deal to add its family channel Fix&Foxi to African mobile network operator Africell’s new mobile TV service.

Fix&Foxi

Also called Africell, the service has been piloted in Gambia and will soon launch in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It features a variety of channels, covering a wide range of topics from movies and documentaries to music and learning programmes.

The Fix&Foxi channel broadcasts children’s content, both animated and live action, from the YFE catalogue. It is named after well-known German comic characters and delivers child-safe, entertaining and educational content to children of all ages and their families.

Armin Schnell, executive VP of sales at YFE, said: “We are proud to partner with a renowned company like Africell and to continue expanding the Fix&Foxi channel into new territories. We are looking forward to bringing our high-quality and learning-based content to new viewers in Africa.”

Nadia Moati, Africell operations director, added: “We are always looking for ways to bring more and better content to our subscribers. Adding the Fix&Foxi channel to our mobile TV platform is a natural choice because it raises the overall quality of the platform and will give millions of children the opportunity to enjoy fun, imaginative and educational programming.”

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