French State Broadcaster To Compete With KTN, Citizen TV And NTV After New Announcement

French state broadcaster France Medias Monde has shown interests in the Kenyan local television space.A notice published in the Kenya Gazette on Friday indicates that the broadcaster, which owns the France24 channel, has applied for a commercial free-to-air digital terrestrial television licence.“The licences, if granted, will enable the applicants to operate and provide services as indicated against their names,” Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) director-general Francis Wangusi said in the notice.France24’s channels are already available on KBC and via pay television platforms DStv and StarTimes but seems like the company is aiming to have work alone and introduce it’s free to air platform.