Africa
E.tv pounces for Champions League rights in South Africa
South African commercial broadcaster E.tv has acquired rights for the Uefa Champions League, Europe’s top club football tournament, in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15.
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Pay-television operator acquires French Ligue 1 rights in East Africa
East African pay-television operator Zuku has acquired rights in Kenya for Ligue 1, the top division of French football, in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15
ESS makes $100m profit on ICC
Deal in Australia takes ESS over $100m profit threshold for global ICC rights sales
YouTube’s splurge good timing for Premier League
YouTube football deals good timing for Premier League
Al Janoubia acquires and sublicenses Tunisia match rights
Pay-television broadcaster Al Janoubia has acquired and sublicensed on live rights for the Tunisian national football team’s qualifying match for the 2013 African Cup of Nations away to Sierra Leone t…
SuperSport snaps up Zimbabwe football league rights
SuperSport, the pay-television broadcaster in sub-Saharan Africa, has acquired rights for the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League, the top football division in the country
Fox hunt for top sport continues
How Eredivisie deal fits into Fox expansion strategy
Matthews ends Premier Soccer League tenure early to return to Multichoice
Stanley Matthews will quit his position as chief executive of South African football’s top-tier Premier Soccer League to return to pan-regional sub-Saharan Africa pay-television broadcaster Multichoice.
ICC goes from free to pay in the Caribbean
ESS sells ICC rights to ESPN
Sports rights on the agenda at ANC conference
South Africa’s ruling ANC party will discuss the role of sports rights in the television market at a policy conference to be held next week.
E.tv steps in after SABC rejects delayed Springboks rights
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How ESS will turn into feisty Fox
How ESS will become more aggressive under News Corp; Difficult marriage from day one
SABC strikes deal with Sportfive for South Africa away matches
South African public-service broadcaster the SABC has agreed a three-year deal with the Sportfive agency for rights to the away matches of the South African national football team
ECB agrees seven-year deal with ESS at healthy increase
ECB enjoys healthy rights-fee increase in new ESS deal
Tunisian national broadcaster in u-turn on cup rights deal
Tunisian public-service broadcaster Télévision Tunisienne has reversed a decision to curtail a rights deal for the country’s national cup football competition after an emergency meeting with the Fédération Tunis…
Nigerian Olympic Committee acquires London 2012 rights
The Nigerian Olympic Committee has acquired rights to the 2012 Olympic Games in a deal with the Octagon agency, which is selling the free-to-air rights to the 2012 Games in sub-Saharan Africa excluding…
Unchallenged Sky pays increase for ICC rights
ESS bucks the trend and gets increase from Sky
SABC deal provides certainty for South African football
South African public-service broadcaster the SABC confirmed that it has signed a three-year deal worth about R215 million (€21 million/$27 million) with the South African Football Association for rights t…