Africa

Dakar Rally organiser Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) has said that the 2015 edition of the annual motorsport event will receive coverage in 190 countries through 70 broadcasters.

Sports video news agency SNTV has agreed a deal to provide its sports news video content to 6Medias, a digital press agency focused on French-speaking territories.

South African public-service broadcaster the SABC has acquired rights for live television coverage of all South Africa national cricket team home matches.

Fox International Channels, the broadcast division of media company 21st Century Fox, has launched its Fox Sports channels in Nigeria through a carriage agreement with new pay-television platform African Cable TV.

German-based pay-television broadcaster Motorvision TV has broadened its global reach by agreeing carriage deals in Australia, Cyprus, Portugal, Angola and Mozambique.

Siyaya TV has secured a broadcasting licence ahead of the start of its new rights deal for South Africa national football team coverage.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports will resume full live coverage in the Middle East and North Africa of English Premier League football matches that kick off at 15.00 on Saturdays in the UK.

The Fox International Channels (FIC) Europe & Africa regional broadcast division of media company 21st Century Fox has appointed Hannelie Bekker as managing director of FIC Africa, according to the Mediaupdate.co.za website.

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has acquired broadcasting rights in the Indian sub-continent to the 2014-15 edition of South Africa’s domestic T20 Challenge cricket tournament.

The North American NBA basketball league has signed up a host of regional partners for its new NBA Sundays localised broadcast initiative.

The Kombat Sport pay-television channel has agreed a deal to broadcast the Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts series in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and sub-Saharan Africa in 2015 and 2016.

Lega Serie A, the governing body of the top division of Italian football, and its strategic media rights advisor, the Infront Sports & Media agency, have launched a tender for the international broadcast rights to Serie A.

Sub-Saharan Africa pay-television operator SuperSport has stepped in to acquire the free-to-air rights in the region to England’s Premier League after local rights-holder, Optima Sports Management International, defaulted on its payments.

The Fox International Channels broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has appointed Caleb Weinstein, a former executive of electronic commerce company Amazon, as its executive-vice-president of affiliate distribution for Europe and Africa.

SuperSport, the pay-television broadcaster that operates in Sub-Saharan Africa, has acquired rights for the 2014 edition of the Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament.

The TV Media Sport agency has secured the television distribution rights for the 2014-15 season of Serie A, the top division of Italian football, across sub-Saharan Africa.