Meridian Media Group
News. Streaming. Media Infrastructure.
Meridian Media Group brings together specialist businesses across journalism, streaming and media technology — creating platforms through which information, culture and content can move between Africa, Britain and the global diaspora.
Two Worlds. One Line.
02Group proposition
Meridian Media Group is the institutional layer above three specialist operating companies working across journalism, streaming and media technology. Each has a defined mandate; together they form a single chain from content to audience.
01
NN24 Live
Reporting, verification and editorial capability — the creation and organisation of information.
02
TV7
Programming, distribution and audience relationships across Britain, Africa and the diaspora.
03
APICo
Media orchestration, accessibility and the technology layer that carries content to audiences.
Meridian holds the group functions that no single operating company should carry alone: strategy, governance, capital framework, intellectual-property direction and partnerships.
03Operating companies
Each operating company holds a distinct mandate, brand and audience relationship, while contributing to a single integrated media system.
Journalism & Information
A digital-first news platform focused on Nigeria, Africa, the Caribbean, the global diaspora and the wider world.
NN24 Live Limited
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Streaming & Audiences
A streaming platform being developed around entertainment, culture and programming serving Black British, African, Caribbean and global diaspora audiences.
TV7 Streams Limited
Visit TV7
Technology & Infrastructure
Media orchestration, accessibility and infrastructure technologies designed for modern content creation, distribution and consumption.
APICO Technologies Limited
Visit APICo04How the group works
Content moves through technology and distribution to audiences. Meridian sits above that chain as the institutional layer.
Institutional layer
Meridian Media Group
Stage 01
Content & Information
NN24 Live
Reporting and editorial capability.
Stage 02
Platform & Distribution
TV7
Programming, streaming and audience reach.
Stage 03
Technology & Infrastructure
APICo
Orchestration, accessibility and workflow technology.
Audiences
The operating companies retain their own mandates and management focus. Meridian provides the strategic direction, governance and institutional capability through which they can scale.
05Our thesis
Media markets are converging. Content, distribution, accessibility, technology and audience experience can no longer operate as isolated functions.
Meridian develops specialist businesses at the points where these systems meet.
Our operating companies retain distinct mandates while benefiting from shared strategic direction, governance, intellectual property, partnerships and institutional capability.
06Brand & geography
Meridian is built around the line connecting Africa and its global diaspora — the movement of news, culture, technology and ideas between both.
London. Africa. The Global Diaspora.
07Institutional posture
Meridian is structured as an institution rather than a single venture, with the disciplines that long-term media businesses require.
01
Accuracy, verification and independence in how information is gathered and published.
02
Building the orchestration, accessibility and workflow technology media now depends on.
03
Designing media so that it can be understood and used by the widest possible audience.
04
Structure, governance and patience — building businesses intended to outlast their founders.
08Group Advisory Board
Meridian draws on senior external expertise across strategy, finance, media, technology, distribution and international growth as it develops institutional capability across NN24, TV7 and APICo.
Tony Simpson · Simon Lamb · Alistair Soyode · Keith Clinkscales · Alan Hird · Thomas De Bruyne · Lorenzo Omo-Aligbe
Meet the Group Advisory Board →09Leadership
Founder & Executive Chairman
Anthony “Tony” Dara is Founder & Executive Chairman of Meridian Media Group. His career spans broadcast engineering, television, journalism, media entrepreneurship and technology across Africa and the United Kingdom, from Kaduna Polytechnic and De Montfort University through professional broadcast training at BBC Training & Development, Wood Norton, Evesham, to NTA, ITV, Bloomberg Television and Snell & Wilcox, and on to founding NN24, Nigeria’s pioneering 24-hour television news channel.
He is the named inventor of the media-accessibility technology now developed within APICO Technologies Limited, and leads Meridian's strategy, governance and institutional development.
10Contact
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