Africa

SportyTV has acquired an exclusive package of Uefa Euro 2024 free-to-air rights across large parts of sub-Saharan Africa, SportBusiness can reveal

Free-to-air media rights in sub-Saharan Africa to the Confederation of African Football’s new-look qualifying competition for the 2026 Fifa World Cup have been sold to Marketing & Media Solutions (MMS), a…

A legal challenge filed by South Africa’s eMedia Investments against the terms of pay-television operator MultiChoice’s Rugby World Cup sublicensing deal has failed after being struck from the roll at …

South African public-service broadcaster the SABC has struck a late deal to sublicense rights to the Cricket World Cup from pay-television broadcaster MultiChoice, although the agreement prevents matches from being shown on Openview, the free-to-air satellite platform owned by eMedia Investments.

South Africa’s eMedia Investments has filed legal papers with Johannesburg’s High Court over the terms of pay-television broadcaster MultiChoice’s Rugby World Cup sublicensing deal which has precluded the m…

BeIN Media Group is readying legal action against the Confederation of African Football (CAF) over the continental governing body’s decision to unilaterally cancel its broadcast deal with the Qatari m…

Public-service broadcaster the SABC has been unable to secure a sublicensing deal with pay-television broadcaster SuperSport for South Africa's matches at the forthcoming 2023 Rugby World Cup in France

A seven-year broadcast rights deal announced by Football Kenya Federation (FKF) with the Tanzania-based Azam Media has been met with a mixture of praise and scepticism from Kenyan Premier League (KPL)…

The Confederation of African Football has opted for a slimmed-down, eight-team version of the African Football League after expected funding from the Saudi Arabian Football Federation failed to materialise.

Fifa has launched an invitation to tender process for the centralised broadcast rights to all matches in the Confederation of African Football’s new-look qualifying competition for the 2026 World Cup.

Major League Cricket has announced a domestic media rights deal with subscription broadcaster Willow TV and a series of international media rights agreements ahead of its inaugural season

New World TV, the Togo-based satellite broadcaster, has acquired German club football rights in 22 countries across sub-Saharan Africa in a three-year, non-exclusive deal

Canal Plus, the France-based pay-television broadcaster, has further increased its stake in pan-African media group MultiChoice, owner of pay-television broadcaster SuperSport and pay-television operator…

Pan-African media group MultiChoice, owner of pay-television broadcaster SuperSport and pay-television operator DStv, has reported the return of its Rest of Africa (RoA) business to profitability, along…

The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) are to merge commercial operations under common ownership in a shock tripartite agreement that ends all pending litigation r…

The concurrent invitations to tender issued by the Confederation of African Football earlier this month represent the most comprehensive set of rights made available since the high-profile termination of CAF’s $1bn (€930m), 12-year contract with Lagardère Sports.

Pay-television broadcaster SuperSport renewed its rights to International Cricket Council global events from 2024 to the end of 2031 at a slight uplift, despite an absence of competition in the region.

Pay-television broadcaster SuperSport has extended its domestic media rights deal with Cricket South Africa until the end of the 2026-27 season