Africa

International sports broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights across Europe, the Middle East and Africa to US-based Major League Lacrosse (MLL)

State-run broadcaster the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) has obtained free-to-air rights to every game in the upcoming African Cup of Nations (AFCON)

SuperSport, the sub-Saharan pay-television broadcaster, has built on its partnership with the International Olympic Committee by agreeing a content deal with the latter's OTT platform, the Olympic Channel

Spanish football’s LaLiga has launched a tender process for its media rights in Sub-Saharan Africa for the four seasons from 2020-21 to 2023-24.

South African VOD service Showmax is trialling the streaming of live and pre-recorded sport in the country

The Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria, a body of public and commercial broadcasters, has backtracked on its announcement last weekend that it has concluded an agreement with Fifa for free-to-air rights…

South African pay-television operator Multichoice is facing the biggest challenge in its 26-year history in the form of a two-pronged regulatory attack on its dominant position in the country’s sports-rights market.

Pan-African pay-television broadcaster StarTimes has acquired rights to the upcoming edition of the Copa América national team football tournament.

Digital platform Watch iT has reportedly acquired exclusive digital rights to the Egyptian football league in a four-year deal

South African public-service broadcaster the SABC has agreed a sublicensing deal with pay-television broadcaster SuperSport for free-to-air rights to the forthcoming Cricket World Cup

The Infront agency has agreed a three-season deal with the English Premier League to market free-to-air rights across sub-Saharan Africa

Pan-African pay-television operator StarTimes has acquired rights to the 2019 Copa Del Rey final. It bought the rights from the Spanish football federation

Marketing and production company HotSports Media has agreed a deal to market broadcast rights in Nigeria to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) national team football tournament

The Confederation of African Football has made good on a two-year-old promise to renegotiate its mammoth global media and marketing rights deal with Lagardère Sports, but not its promise to earn more money for its rights.

W Series, the women’s motor-racing championship, has signed media rights deals covering its inaugural season across 35 territories in Asia, Africa and Oceania, it said Tuesday.

African broadcaster Kwesé TV has agreed a partnership with the European Handball Federation for rights to its Champions League club competition.