Sub-Saharan Africa

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.
Rugby Union

South African commercial broadcaster E
Football

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
Cricket

ECB enjoys healthy rights-fee increase in new ESS deal

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…
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…
Football

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…
Basketball

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

Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has launched a new sports channel in the Portuguese-language African markets of Angola and Mozambique
Australian Rules Football

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…
Football

The Communications Commission of Kenya, the country’s media regulator, should consider forcing pay-television broadcaster DStv to sell on some of its English Premier League content to rival companies i…
Rugby Union

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.

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.
Basketball

Lockout hurt NBA but now broadcasters are returning
American Football

IOC adopts revenue-share model in Africa after Fifa 2010 World Cup experiment
Football

Sportfive set to make healthy profit on Caf rights deal

Football

'Creating a market' with no audience measurement data
Football

Public-service broadcaster the Namibia Broadcasting Corporation agreed a sponsorship deal with mobile telecommunications company MTC which has helped it fund the acquisition of the rights for the 2012…