South Africa
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
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
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…
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
ESPN acquires international Aussie rules broadcast rights
Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired exclusive rights in the UK, Ireland, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa for the Australian Football League, the country’s top Aussie rules championship, in a three y…
Supersport appointed host broadcaster of rugby Junior World Championship
Supersport, the sub-Saharan Africa pay-television broadcaster, has been appointed host broadcaster of this year’s rugby union Junior World Championship in South Africa.
SuperSport to be delivered via connected-TV app in partnership with Samsung
Samsung and SuperSport, the sub-Saharan Africa pay-television broadcaster, have partnered to create an application for the electronics company’s internet-connected television sets in South Africa.
NBA bounces back from lockout with a series of deals
Lockout hurt NBA but now broadcasters are returning
Octagon treads softly in Africa
IOC adopts revenue-share model in Africa after Fifa 2010 World Cup experiment
Sportfive ‘creating a market where there wasn’t one’
'Creating a market' with no audience measurement data
Indian rights boom hits ceiling as saturation reached
Saturation effect puts brake on Indian cricket rights boom
ESS gets more content as rights fee remains flat
ESS gets more Australia cricket for its dollar in five-year deal
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football: Fifa World Cup, South Asian Championship and more
Football: The ISM agency acquired the rights in Indonesia to the 2014 Fifa World Cup in a deal worth $55m (€40m). ISM sold the rights to the Bakrie Group for about $60m (page 9).
Supersport acquires 2012 Olympics rights
Supersport, the sub-Saharan Africa pay-television broadcaster, acquired rights for the 2012 Olympic Games, which take place in London next summer
IRB set to cash in on World Cup heroics of Les Bleus
France holds the key for 2015