A win for Bafana in Niamey will guarantee Pitso Mosimane's boys a place in next year's Africa Cup of Nations tournament to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. In June, the SABC secured the rights to broadcast South Africa's away match to Egypt in the eleventh hour and reportedly had to fork out R5 million. Later on reports in the same month claimed that the SABC had allowed a Niger national broadcaster to air the game at the Mbombela Stadium – a 2-0 win for Bafana - for free in November last year with a view to some reciprocation for the return leg in Niamey, but CAF has since sold the rights to SportFive and this company has seemingly made life difficult for the SABC. However, the SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago is confident of the public broadcaster securing the rights "soon". "We have started negotiations and so far so good. We will then have to finalise soon, but so far it looks promising," he says.
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Anyway,SABC is too generous,next sell ur rights to Supersport so that those egyptian or Niger media will buy expensive rights from Supersport!*wink*
Pitso & july are right. The trick is the sooner they get it the better, because then they have enough time to sell the game to potential advertisers, but if they secure the rights in the last minute there is no time to bring in advertisers, which means they end up with nothing. It is best to secure the rights earlier.
Once SABC bought the rights the will surely resell them and reproduce the videos of it for anyone who may want to shows the pics of this Video E.g. News, match highlights (by soccer programs), Televising the delayed matches by other Channels. Every broadcaster and other medias will want to have the collection of this video and in SA SABC will be the only brocaster with this the Video. If they are wise the will make 5 times what they paid.
They promise us the sport channel before the WC, when are we going to get that shit?
Maybe you still recall the concerns raised by the Advertiser in 2006 world cup final between Italy - France, viewers switched from SABC1(SABC's Pathetic soccer analyst the root-cause) to other channels at Half time. The Advertiser claimed they lost their money because the intended market was never reached.
Supersport will make Billions out of PSL Deal.
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Back to the broadcast. An excuse will be somebody stole the cables at airport.
TTM, did you read the latest KO Magazine where the broadcasting rights issue was covered? i used to think like you before but now i know that its not SABC's fault. CAF sold the rights to a French company which plays dirty tricks with African broadcasting houses. it is reported that this Soprt5(if i'm not mistaken) company would let you wait until the final few days when they know you are desparate to start negotiating. there's another broadcaster that had sent them a request to open negotiations 6 months in advance, but they were kept in the dark until the last day when they demanded R5 000 000, this is too much for many African countries and CAF is the one allowing this to happen.
So next time guys, think about this before you start blaming the SABC. somethings are just out of their control!
I'm almost certain that Naspers doesnt make more than 30% out of Kickoff Sales, but the bulk of the revenue is out of the advertisers on Kickoff. Although we can argue that the sales broaght the advertisers.
Do you know who TTM is? If so how can you ask him if he read the latest Kick-Off magazine edition? Anyway good points, your input is refreshing unlike the crap we read everyday here from people like boAll Nsl Trompies and others from his team..!!!
If I was Gaddaffi of PSL/SAFA I wouldn't allow these clowns to broadcast any game.
The less said about their cameras the better.
Mfana Wa Style: 2011-08-26 15:12
Do you know who TTM is? If so how can you ask him if he read the latest Kick-Off magazine edition?
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hehehehehe! You killed me man.
This Mafikizolo is like that Lorodojerry. All they do is to come here expose their literacy and claim to be mr I know it all.