WAPTV widens reach with by introducing mobile app

One of Nigeria’s leading family entertainment channel, wapTV, has launched its new mobile app, which gives users unlimited access to its popular shows, such as ‘Superstory’, ‘Akpan and Oduma’, ‘Papa Ajasco and Company Reloaded’, ‘Kookoorookoo’, ‘D’Beat Zone’, and other original content. This is in addition to diverse Yoruba, English, Igbo and Hausa movies; as well as reality TV shows, music videos, comedy skits, exclusive celebrity interviews, and other high-quality entertainment content by prominent independent producers across the country.

The user-friendly app, simply named ‘wapTV’, has features for streaming Live TV as well as watching video-on-demand, and it is now available to download for free worldwide on Apple’s iOS App Store, and Android’s Google Play Store, providing users with wapTV’s wide range of quality entertainment programmes through smartphones, computers, and tablets on the go.

In a statement sent to Saturday Beats, the Managing Director of wapTV, Wole Adenuga, said “Since we launched wapTV as a satellite television network in 2012, we have always positioned ourselves to adapt and expand on different new media platforms, as seen with our popular YouTube platform, ‘waptvchannel’, which currently has over 650,000 active subscribers, while amassing over 200m views. With our new mobile app, we have taken great steps to ensure optimum user experience on both live streaming and VoD functions, as well as the seamless interactive portals to facilitate engagement, and ensure maximum satisfaction.”

The multiple-award-winning wapTV is a 24-hour family entertainment television network, available across Nigeria and several African countries on all major satellite and cable TV platforms.