Africa

South Africa’s Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has said there will continue to be no live coverage of boxing on public-service broadcaster SABC due to a dispute between the Boxing South Africa governing body and promoter Branco Milenkovic.

Sport1’s deal last week for the rights to the National Hockey League means the sports broadcaster now has exclusive rights to each of the four top North American sports leagues.

South African public-service broadcaster SABC has acquired free-to-air rights to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Rights-holders need a ‘different mindset' in Africa, report says

The TV Media Sport agency has agreed a four-year deal to distribute rights to the International Association of Athletics Federations’ World Athletics Series events across sub-Saharan Africa.

South African digital entertainment company Discover Digital has made its first sports rights acquisition by agreeing a deal for the SuperGP Champions Trophy national motorcycling series.

Moroccan public-service broadcaster SNRT has acquired rights to the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations national team football tournament, which will be hosted in the country next year.

Canal Plus Afrique, the African arm of French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus, has acquired rights to the 2014 Fifa World Cup national team football tournament.

World football’s governing body Fifa has denied reports that German public-service broadcaster ZDF’s coverage of the 2014 World Cup will be available to viewers in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

The Infront Sports & Media agency and International Olympic Committee have hailed the success of the sub-Saharan broadcast strategy put in place for the 2014 Sochi winter Games, adding the initiative will be repeated for the forthcoming Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.

Privately-owned Tunisian broadcaster Hannibal TV has agreed a deal with the Tunisian Handball Federation (FTHB) for the rights to the country’s top-tier league, the National A.

Pay-television broadcaster SuperSport, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, has agreed a four-year rights deal with the Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa).

Jan Koeppen has been named president of Europe and Africa for Fox International Channels, the broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox.

Jesus Perezagua, president in Europe and Africa of the Fox International Channels broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox, will step down from the post on April 30.

Organisers of South African mountain bike race Absa Cape Epic have announced that the 2014 event will be broadcast live outside the country for the first time.

The Ghana Television Consortium of broadcasters has accused free-to-air broadcaster TV3 of illegally marketing commercial rights surrounding the 2014 Fifa World Cup national team football tournament, according to the Ghanaweb.com website.