A streaming platform for the Black British and African diaspora, combining proprietary linear channels, video on demand and original programming.
VisitMeridian Media Group — the house of TV7, NN24 and APICo
Two worlds, one line.
The House
A meridian is the line by which the world takes its measure. The first of them, the line from which all others are counted, runs through Greenwich in London and falls south through West Africa. It is, very nearly, the line that joins the two places that made this company.
The word carries more than geography. A meridian is the highest point the sun reaches in its day, the moment of full strength. And for a broadcaster it is the oldest idea of all, the line along which a signal travels, carried from one place to many.
Meridian is the house that holds TV7, NN24 and APICo. It exists to carry the journalism, culture and voices of Africa and its diaspora to the world, with the engineering discipline of a broadcaster and the integrity of a newsroom: all sides, with clarity. It is built to endure.
From London to Africa, and to wherever its audiences have made their home, Meridian is the line that connects them.
What we stand for
Meridian builds media institutions to last. It pairs the engineering discipline of a broadcaster with the integrity of a newsroom, and it serves audiences too often unseen by the mainstream: the Black British and African diaspora, on the continent and across the world. The standard is the same in every brand the house holds. All sides, with clarity.
Leadership
Tony Dara
Chief Executive
Tony Dara is a media entrepreneur and broadcasting executive, and Chief Executive of Meridian. His career spans over three decades across the Nigeria and United Kingdom, from broadcast engineering at the Nigerian Television Authority, ITV and Bloomberg to founding NN24, Nigeria's first 24-hour television news channel, and founding the pan-African network News Central TV. He is the named inventor of the media-accessibility technology that now operates as APICo.