First African VoD channel on Roku : Junction TV brings African Info Media to OTT!

October 9, 2011

Junction TV brings the first African OTT VoD channel to North America on Roku. African Info Media selected Junction TV as its solution provider to bring African movies to Roku. Mike Shehan, Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Junction TV said that by leveraging Junction TV’s cloud based platform, African Info Media channel was launched in just 3 weeks time.

This fast turnaround and launch timeframe speaks volumes about the capabilities of the Junction TV platform that a complex and sophisticated application like the African Info Media Channel could be launched on the Roku platform very quickly and with zero problems.

African Info Media is the premier source for current economic, political and business news from Africa. They provide full-length feature films as well as music, commentary, events and documentaries besideslive TV channels.

With this launch,Junction TV now has a customer footprint spread over five continents of North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

About Junction TV

Junction TV is a pioneering end-to-end Over-the-Top TV platform provider that enables content companies to launch multi-device pay-tv services to Roku, Boxee, Samsung TV, NeoTV and other connected TV devices. The Junction TV Platform is modular in design where each component is deployable as a separate service. The customer benefit is customizable combination of services in conjunction with third-party services/platform for building the overall video delivery solution.

For more information please contact Junction TV Marketing and PR Manager Aparna Kar at aparna@junctiontv.com