FEVA TV

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FEVA TV
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Country Canada
Broadcast areaNational
Headquarters Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ownership
OwnerWells Multimedia Entertainment
Key peopleWells Idahosa Okunbo (chairman)
Robert Onianwah (president/CEO)
History
LaunchedAugust 28, 2014;10 years ago (2014-08-28), 10 years ago
Links
Website www.fevatv.com

FEVA TV is a Canadian English language exempt Category B specialty channel that launched on August 28, 2014. The channel's name is an acronym for First Entertainment Voice of Africa, and a Caribbean English spelling of the word "fever." It was founded by Robert Onianwah and Dr. Idahosa Wells Okunbo, and is owned by Wells Multimedia Entertainment Inc.

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FEVA TV is the first-ever television channel aimed at Black Canadians. It primarily airs general entertainment programming, including movies, music, comedies, dramas, documentaries, and talk shows.

History

FEVA originated as an Internet-based video service in September 2013. [1] Shortly after FEVA's launch, the owners began talks with television service providers to launch the service as a television channel. FEVA TV would officially launch as a television channel on August 28, 2014. [2]

The following year, FEVA reached distribution agreements with Flow, which rolled out the channel in Summer 2015 to the Caribbean; including Antigua, Barbados, Curaçao, Grenada, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. [3]

In September 2016, FEVA launched in the United States as a digital sub-channel of WDFL-LD channel 18; a low-powered television station in Miami, Florida. [4]

In Summer 2021, FEVA reached its first African distribution agreement with Azam TV, launching on its system in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, and Malawi. [5]

In February 2022, FEVA would go to Jamaica to shoot two episodes We Outside, an original series produced for the planned launch of FEVA Music. [6] That same year, the Comcast/NBCUniversal-backed AfroLandTV partnered with Fast Channels TV and FEVA to launch a FEVA-branded FAST channel. [7]

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