Kwese TV was not joking when it declared its bid to shake up the African sport television market at inception. The broadcaster has made its intentions known through the acquisition of several top rights like the FIFA World Cup, the free-to-air rights for the English Premier League (that ensures one game is shown every weekend), […]
In what is a first of its type in the use of digital technology in Nigerian sports, football portal Naijafootballers broadcast its first The Ballers Awards entirely via Instagram Live on Wednesday, January 18, 2018. The show that was hosted by star OAP Murphy Ijemba began at 7 PM. The awards show was pre-produced and […]
After losing out on the English Premier League rights that have been retained by SuperSport until 2022, Kwese Sports has now gotten itself a good catch, the French Ligue 1. It was announced this week that the new broadcaster claimed the rights to screen the French top division for English and Portuguese language, Sub-Saharan Africa, […]
It is less than six months to the start of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia and Sub-Saharan Africa’s television rights have been split among four major broadcasters. While pay TV rights have been shared among StarTimes, Kwese TV and SuperSport, free-to-air (FTA) rights have been split between SABC (for South Africa only) and Kwese […]
The global drive towards over-the-top (OTT) in broadcasting has pushed many broadcasters to create their own mobile phone apps in other to extend their offering to subscribers. According to the most popular definition, an OTT is “any application or service that provides a product over the internet and bypasses traditional distribution.” Companies like Netflix, HULU, […]
As we inch closer to the start of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Kwese TV has been offering African viewers educational content about winter sports disciplines in preparation for the games. Winter sport is not popular in Africa due to the lack of snow in most countries on the continent. Only […]
The domestic league will have a new broadcast company covering it when the season resumes on January 18, 2018. The League Management Company signed a partnership agreement with national broadcaster NTA in September that will see both organisations create a joint venture company to produce and broadcast the Nigeria Professional Football League. The deal will […]