On this week’s episode of #WithChude, Media and Entertainment entrepreneur and investor, Toyin Subair, opens up to host and founder of Joy, Inc., Chude Jideonwo, about his trying journey, the events that helped him overcome the threat of failure and the stigma it comes with. Recounting his experience with a fake fraud accusation, Toyin Subair... Read More

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September 8, 2016

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The Media Blog: Toyin Subair has said his own, oya Dele Olojede, it’s your turn to confess

Everyone in the media industry that pays attention to online conversation has been talking about Toyin Subair’s significant opus on why he failed with HiTV – an ambitious media experiment if there ever was. There was one even more ambitious, and just as consequential – and it was NEXT newspapers, founded by Pulitzer-prize winner and... Read More

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September 8, 2016

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The Thread: The practical reason behind the fall of HiTV, according to this tweep

For those who may bristle at DSTV’s dominance of Nigeria’s pay TV space, recall that HITV was once seen as their challenger. They made a big splash by winning the rights to the English Premier League for three seasons, but lost the rights at the expiration of that period to DSTV. That company folded up soon after, and... Read More

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September 8, 2016

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The Media Blog: Nigerians on Twitter (who know the story) have no sympathy for Toyin Subair

So high-profile media entrepreneur, best known for the high-profile failure of HiTV, Toyin Subair wrote this. (We tl;dr-ed it for you here). And Nigerians on Twitter (because Nigeria is not America where you can rehabilitate your image in peace via a thoughtful piece) came for him with these: The ambivalent. Toyin Subair: HiTV 101 If there’s... Read More

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September 8, 2016

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The Media Blog: Toyin Subair just took everyone to school (and Heil DSTV!)

The former chief executive officer of the failed HiTV (High Television, for long) put up a post on LinkedIn in August that we just came across and that every media entrepreneur who wants to do big things (like ELTV, NN24, Channels TV scale big things that require risk, and hard slog) needs to read. HiTV... Read More

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September 8, 2016

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Why HiTV collapsed | Toyin Subair opens up on the fall of his cable TV franchise

High Television (also known as HiTV) was a Entertainment Highway’s multi-channel digital satellite television service launched in Nigeria in 2007. Founded by Toyin Subair, HiTV gave South African based company DSTV, owned by Multichoice, its biggest competition till date. It was the first television platform in Africa to deploy Hypercable, a terrestrial pay-per-view TV decoder... Read More

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