Broadcast Media Africa

Sports Rights

Jul 29, 2020 | Multichoice SuperSport Extends La Liga Broadcast Rights In Africa For Another Two Years

Multichoice SuperSport and the Spanish La Liga have renewed their broadcast rights covering another two years to cover up until 2023/24 season. With this agreement, SuperSport will continue to screen coverage of the Spanish top-flight football games in all languages ...

Jul 02, 2020 | Multichoice SuperSport May Not Renew Broadcast Rights For EPL, UEFA

Reliable sources close to decision-makers inside SuperSport (the part of Multichoice Africa that offers sports entertainment) have said the company is seriously considering not renewing the broadcasting rights for the English Premier League (EPL) and the UEFA Champions League going ...

Jun 15, 2020 | SuperSport Gets Formula One TV Rights For Another Three Years

SuperSport - the sports franchise of Africa’s dominant Pay-TV player, Multichoice - has agreed to a rights extension with F1 to cover the next three years. SuperSport has, for some years now, been the sole broadcaster of Formula One ...

Mar 18, 2020 | Confederation Of African Football (CAF) To Issue TV Rights Tenders - Reports

The Confederation of African Football has announced an official invitation to tender for broadcast services related to its competitions, including the flagship Africa Cup of Nations in 2021. The tender process will also include all the qualifying matches for the ...

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and Athletics South Africa (ASA) have announced that they have agreed on a broadcast deal to cover the athletics events for the 2020 season. The agreement was inked at the SABC in Auckland Park ...

StarTimes Bags Formula E African Rights Deal

The Chinese media company, StarTimes, has secured the exclusive broadcast rights to the 2019/20 Formula E all-electric motorsport series in a total of 37 territories across sub-Saharan Africa. The deal covers significant markets including South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania and ...

Ghana’s Media Regulator Urges Local Football Association To Publish StarTimes Deal Details -Reports

The Chairman of Ghana’s National Media Commission (NMC) has called on the nation’s football association to publish the details of its rights agreement with the pay-TV broadcaster StarTimes. Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh made the request in a bid to defuse rising tensions ...

Ghana’s Radio Stations Get Free Broadcasting Rights For Local Football League

The Ghana Football Association’s Executive Committee has made the decision to offer free radio commentary broadcast rights to all radio stations in Ghana. The rights will be granted to all radio stations who agree to the GFA’s conditions that are ...

SuperSport Not Bidding For Ghana Premier League Broadcasting Rights -Reports

The President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kurt Okraku, has revealed that SuperSport is not among the companies who are gunning for the broadcast rights of the Ghana Premier League. Media reports had been doing the rounds claiming that ...

StarTimes Acquires Broadcast Rights For Emirates FA Cup And Community Shield Games

The pay-TV operator StarTimes has announced that it recently acquired the broadcasting rights for the Emirates FA Cup and the FA Community Shield matches. The company released a statement revealing that it had secured the transmission rights for these two ...

Cameroon’s CRTV And Africa Union Of Broadcasting End Dispute Over Unpaid TV Rights Fees

Cameroon’s public broadcaster, CRTV, and the African Union of Broadcasting, the body of free-to-air broadcasters, have amicably ended their dispute over outstanding rights fee payments. After a meeting in Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé, the two organisations stated that they now look ...

Ghana FA Scraps $17.9m Broadcast Rights Deal With StarTimes

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has cancelled its $17.9m contract with StarTimes after it called for bids to take over the rights that were bought by the Chinese broadcasting giant three years ago. The GFA invited the nation’s media organisations ...

South Africa: SAFA Reports $5Mil Loss After SABC Broadcasting Rights Issue

The South African Football Association (SAFA) has reported a $5 million loss at its annual general meeting on Sunday. According to the football federation’s acting CEO Gay Mokoena, the deficit is a result of its loss of the SABC broadcasting ...

North Africa: BeIN Sports Secures Broadcast Rights For FIFA Club World Cup

The Qatar-based pay-TV broadcaster beIN Sports has secured exclusive broadcast rights for the next two editions of the FIFA Club World Cup. The company has confirmed the two-year media rights deal for 24 countries in the Middle East and North ...