NEW DELHI: Expanding its presence in the African region, NDTV’s flagship English news channel NDTV 24x7 is now also available on leading African pay TV operator Star Times.

NDTV head – network distribution & affiliate sales Rahul Sood said: “NDTV 24x7 was the first Indian news channel to launch on DStv, and we are pleased to now also join hands with Star Times to serve their subscribers with our award winning news coverage from the best journalists and News production team in India.” “This is in addition to many cable operators who also carry our channels in their countries like Nigeria and Tanzania,” he added.

StarTimes vice-president and managing director of media division Michael Dearham said: “We are very pleased to welcome NDTV 24x7 in our platform, reflecting the ambition of Star Times to always offer more diversified high quality content.”

The platform carries over 440 TV channels, including quality international third party channels, most popular African local channels and StarTimes owned-and-operated channels. The platform also offers all genres of content, ranging from news, movies, sports, entertainment, kids programs, music, life style and religion. The channels are broadcast in 10 different languages, such as English, French, Portuguese, Africa local languages and Chinese.