Africa
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
South African commercial broadcaster E
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…
Uefa wants control and security
Uefa positions itself nicely to cherry-pick top markets
SABC agrees deal for South African national football team rights
South Africa public-service broadcaster the SABC has agreed a deal with the South African Football Association for rights to the South African national team home matches for the next three seasons, 2012-13…
SABC sets October target for new sports channel launch
South Africa public-service broadcaster the SABC plans to use recently-acquired NBA basketball rights to help launch a long-mooted new sports channel in South Africa on October 1
Al Jazeera, FA and Kentaro talks slow Uefa’s launch plan
Uefa in last-minute talks with Al Jazeera and AMI to buy back England qualifier matches
Portugal’s Sport TV boosts presence in Africa with new channel
Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has launched a new sports channel in the Portuguese-language African markets of Angola and Mozambique