South Africa

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has acquired broadcasting rights in the Indian sub-continent to the 2014-15 edition of South Africa’s domestic T20 Challenge cricket tournament.

Pay-television broadcaster SuperSport, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, will show coverage of the MultiChoice Diski Challenge, a new football competition for South African Premier Soccer League (PSL) academy teams.

South Africa national team football matches will be shown on free-to-air television in the country, according to pay-television broadcaster Siyaya TV, which has agreed a six-year rights deal with the South African Football Association (SAFA).

The South African Football Association’s new media rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Siyaya TV would appear to be in doubt after public-service broadcaster the SABC questioned the validity of reports that the agreement had been finalised.

New pay-television broadcaster Siyaya TV has acquired media rights in South Africa for the country’s national football team matches.

Digital-terrestrial operator StarTimes has launched a new sports channel, StarTimes Sport 2, in South Africa.

South African public-service broadcaster the SABC is facing a shortfall of more than R500m (€34.4m/$46.7m) in its sports coverage in the 2014-15 financial year, according to acting chief executive Tian Olivier.

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.

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

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.

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.

South African public-service broadcaster the SABC has acquired rights for the 2014 International Cricket Council World Twenty20 tournament in a sublicensing deal with SuperSport, the pay-television broadcaster that operates in sub-Saharan Africa.

Pay-television sports broadcaster SuperSport, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, has acquired the rights in South Africa to the national team’s showpiece international football friendly against Brazil, which takes place at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

South African public-service broadcaster the SABC has acquired rights in the country for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi and the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Pay-television sports broadcaster SuperSport has acquired rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.