Sub-Saharan Africa

Multi-sport

Ghana is set for its first free-to-air sports broadcasting platform after telecommunications firm Econet Media acquired the free-television broadcasting and production businesses of multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group in the country and its fellow African nation Nigeria.
Football

Fox Sports Africa is the latest of the region’s pay-television broadcasters to invest in African football, but the structure of its joint venture with the West African Football Union differs greatly from recent deals struck by its competitors.
Football

Fifa and Uefa are set for huge increases in the value of their media rights in sub-Saharan Africa. TV Sports Markets understands bidding in both governing bodies’ tender processes has progressed beyond a first round.
Football

The Ghana Football Association has sealed a 10-season deal with StarTimes under which it will earn almost $1.8m (€1.7m) per season for all its domestic football media rights.
Basketball

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus Afrique has agreed a sublicensing deal with telco Econet for rights to North American basketball league the NBA.
Multi-sport

Kenyan free-to-air television platform Bamba TV has launched a new 24-hour sports channel in the country.
Football

Pan-African pay-television operator StarTimes has acquired rights to the top-tier Ghana Premier League as part of a wide-ranging agreement with the Ghana Football Association.
Multi-sport

Cameroonian investment company Medicam has said it has been given the go-ahead from the government to launch what it claims will be the country’s first dedicated sports television channel.
Football

Telco Econet, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, has agreed a deal with the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa).
Football

The Ghana Premier League remains without a broadcast partner with just over four weeks until the start of the 2016-17 season, despite bids from two of sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest broadcasters.

Football

Swazi TV, a public-service broadcaster in Swaziland, has secured a rights deal for the country’s Premier League football competition.

ESPN’s multi-faceted agreement with telco Econet’s Kwesé TV pay-television platform brings the sports broadcaster back to sub-Saharan Africa after an absence of more than three years.

Football

The MP & Silva agency has gone back into business with the Football Kenya Federation, a year after a deal between the two fell apart amid allegations of forgery, fraud and embezzlement against then-FKF president Sam Nyamweya.

Football

Lagardère Sports is distributing free-to-air rights to the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations itself in a marked change from its previous strategy of sublicensing rights in sub-Saharan Africa to another agency.

Football

Kenya's competition authority (CAK) has launched an investigation into MultiChoice East Africa, the pay-television business of South African media company Naspers, over its coverage of football.

US College Sport

Telecommunications company Econet Media, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, has agreed a long-term partnership with international sports broadcaster ESPN for its Kwesé sports service.

Football

World football’s governing body Fifa has opened invitation to tender proceedings in Russia and sub-Saharan Africa for the 2017 Confederations Cup and 2018 World Cup.

Football

The CAA Eleven agency has launched tenders in sub-Saharan Africa for rights to Uefa national team properties.