The Bigfoot Ventures Lands in South Africa with TopTV
Antwerp, Belgium, February 22, 2013 – Fashion One, the international channel for fashion, entertainment and lifestyle television, announces its expansion in Africa with the launch of Fashion One Africa feed on TopTV, a satellite TV network service provider in South Africa. The new feed will be available on TopTV channel 179 nationwide starting March 2013.
The international television network caters to the South African audience with content covering the very latest international fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle news, profiles of A-list celebrities, luxury brands, holiday destinations, and red carpet events. In addition to a strong lineup of original programming including reality shows, documentaries, beauty tips and street styling, Fashion One will start covering more major African cultural events from art, music, dance and food, and gives special spotlight on the best of local fashion designers, creative talents and innovative design within the region.
“We are pleased to be able to announce the launch of Fashion One Africa with TopTV in South Africa and excited to be part of the country’s growing global importance. In addition to bringing the latest fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle programmes from around the world to our audience in South Africa, Fashion One will also showcase African talent with our increasing investment in local productions and, at the same time, provide regular worldwide exposure to the designers and labels in the region through our worldwide network,” says Ashley Jordan, CEO, Fashion One.
“Fashion One focuses on fashion in its widest sense, with many facets from the catwalks of the world to our own vibrant, dynamic fashion scene here in South Africa. It is also the first international fashion channel globally to cover major African fashion events, Afro-Centric designs, flavor and style. From Morocco to Cape Town, including Johannesburg and more and more African fashion weeks will be covered,” says Ian Woodrow, VP, Channels of TopTV
“TopTV is very excited to add this glamorous channel with a focus on local fashion and content to our current offering and are sure that it will soon gather a large following among fashion devotees, creatives, retailers and stylistas,” says Woodrow.
The channel will debut with Fashion Frontline, and African Fashion International 2012. Fashion Frontline is a fashion news series delivering the most current and relevant news related to fashion. Fashion One will also give viewers the exclusive, front row pass to African designers and runway access in African Fashion International 2012. Viewers will also enjoy Eco Fashion, an on-going documentary series and Yoga, Health and Well-being, a lifestyle series.
The daily schedule of programming on Fashion One (Channel 179) will be available on the TopTV website (www.toptv.co.za) and for further information please see www.fashionone.com.
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About Fashion One
FASHION ONE is a global lifestyle and entertainment TV network for women focused on glamorous and inspirational fashion in all aspect of life. With the latest updates and in-depth interviews with designers and celebrities, female audiences will be entertained with Fashion One’s original programmes including reality shows, documentary, travelogue, entertainment news and lifestyle magazine. The Fashion One Network is a subsidiary of Bigfoot Entertainment launched in 2010. For more information, visit www.fashionone.com.
About TopTV
TopTV is an affordable, satellite pay-TV network, proudly bringing digital TV into more homes across the country. TopTV offers its subscribers seven different pricing options ranging from R99 to R269 per month. TopTV Prepaid vouchers are now available from retail outlets countrywide, and as a prepaid option on FNB cellphone banking. With more than 50 channels on offer, these include ten channels created and packaged specifically by TopTV, and include: Top Movies, Top Movies +2, Top Movies +24, Top One, Top Gospel, Top Junior, Top Explore, Top History, Top Crime and Top Learn, as well as a range of highly sought-after international channels from third-party suppliers. The ten locally-developed channels offer audiences a mix of local and international flavours across all genres of programming platforms for an unlimited pay-TV entertainment experience. Also available to subscribers for an additional R69 per month is Top Star, TopTV’s Indian bouquet, which includes Star Plus, Star Gold, Vijay and Star Life OK.
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