Africa

Pay-television broadcaster Azam Media has acquired domestic rights for the Tanzania Premier League, the country’s top football division.

SuperSport shrugs off doubts about its big new Nigerian football league TV deal

The South African government is to consider introducing new regulations that would prevent one broadcaster in the country from owning all premium sports programming, according to the Channel24 news website.

Public-service broadcaster Botswana Television (BTV) has agreed a deal with the Botswana Football Association governing body for the exclusive rights to the Botswana Premier League top tier, according to the Botswana Gazette newspaper.

Pay-television broadcaster Setanta Africa, which operates in the sub-Saharan region of the continent, has acquired rights for live coverage of the 2013 British Superbike Championship motorcycling series.

African pay-television broadcaster SuperSport has agreed a four-year rights deal, from 2015-16 to 2018-19, for the Nigeria Professional Football League, the top division of football in the West African country.

Algerian public-service broadcaster EPTV has acquired rights for Ligue 1, the top division of football in the country.

The Tunisian Football Federation (FTF) has opened up the tender for the domestic broadcast rights to the Championnat de la Ligue Professionnelle 1, the top division of Tunisian football, to foreign broadcasters.

Pay-television sports broadcaster SuperSport, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, has agreed a rights deal for North America’s Major League Soccer competition.

The Zambia National Broadcast Corporation, the African country’s public-service broadcaster, has announced its sports coverage plans over the coming 12 months by confirming that deals are in place to show leading football and athletics.

An interim board formed by the Tanzania Football Federation to supervise the Tanzania Premier League, the country’s top football division, has defended its decision to enter into a three-year broadcast rights deal with the Azam Television company, according to the Tanzania Daily News.

Premiership Rugby, the commercial rights-holder and organiser of the World Club 7s rugby union tournament, has agreed three additional broadcast deals, TV Sports Markets understands.

US sports broadcaster ESPN and pan-regional sub-Saharan Africa pay-television broadcaster MultiChoice have agreed a deal to provide customers of pay-television broadcaster DStv with some of ESPN’s sports programming.

The Tunisian Football Federation has launched a sales process for domestic multimedia rights to all matches organised by the national governing body.

East African pay-television provider Zuku has agreed an exclusive five-year broadcast partnership with Kenya Rugby Union for the airing of all rugby matches played under the auspices of the governing body.

Pay-television sports broadcaster SuperSport, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, will launch three new television channels on July 23.