SuperSport offers e.tv Bok Tests
14 Jun 2012
The Springboks’ home Test matches could be broadcast on e.tv after the SABC said it would no longer be televising them ‘delayed live’.
Keo.co.za understands that the SABC wanted live rights, but SuperSport could never agree to this because they are the lifeblood of pay TV. Besides, SuperSport successfully bid for the live rights, just as the SABC could have.
Until 2010, the SABC had a formal arrangement to broadcast Bok home Tests on a delayed basis – in accordance with Icasa broadcast regulations – and since then, SuperSport and the SABC have worked on an ad-hoc basis. Until last week, the SABC had taken Bok games on a delayed basis before having a change of heart.
SuperSport offered the SABC delayed rights on a very favourable commercial basis, but the national broadcaster baulked. Strangely, last week the SABC said it wasn’t in a position to pay rights fees for a delayed feed, although it wanted live rights – where the fee is significantly more.
However, the Boks’ home Tests could still be broadcast ‘delayed live’ on free-to-air television, according to SuperSport communications manager Clinton van der Berg.
‘SuperSport has engaged with e.tv, having offered them the [SA-England] match on a delayed basis, and is awaiting a response,’ Van den Berg told keo.co.za.
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14 Jun 2012, 13:16 pm
@viewer(viewer)-47:
sad but true…
but apparently this is not a reflection of a demographic shift… robzim posted a week or two back the typical supersport demography being white, afrikaans and over 50…
a new executive is appointed with no interest in rugby and not only does he not remember upon whose subscriptions supersport was built… but he and the dstv executive simply don’t care anymore…
14 Jun 2012, 13:19 pm
I have a totally different view. Government should force Dstv to offer a-la-carte channels. That way you can enjoy channel 201 at say R50 per month. This whole bouquet **** means Dstv is firmly entrenched in its position and rugby will *never* be available to the masses.
14 Jun 2012, 13:19 pm
Tonight on E sounds much better than tonight on SABC3
14 Jun 2012, 13:45 pm
How many really relied on SABC for their rugby to watch?
I don’t know of any in the last 17 years, it all sound like a fabrication to me intended to make some gains for an obscure cause?
The funds at SABC allocated for broadcasting in all likelihood already were embezzled away a while ago
14 Jun 2012, 13:48 pm
Very few people do not have DSTV these days. Those that can’t afford DSTV generally cannot afford a tv.
14 Jun 2012, 13:49 pm
Dstv has the rights if you don’t want to subscribe to dstv watch it at the pub or buy a drifta and pay 49 bucks a month. If SABC wasn’t run by a bunch of corrupt politicos they would have the money to outbid super sport. I would rather have the license fee off every television in SA than the revenue off dstv subs. It’s just one organization utilizes it’s revenue better than the other.
14 Jun 2012, 13:50 pm
@JEZ(DEE DAH)-56:
Well said.
14 Jun 2012, 14:02 pm
@JEZ(DEE DAH)-56: Dstv has 5 million subscribers. That works out to a conservative R2.5 billion per month. You can take your paltry R250 / year / set license fee.
Also, I agree Dstv does a better job with their money. And I can afford it like most of us on keo. I’m just saying we should not be settling for what we get from them.
14 Jun 2012, 14:04 pm
@H(H)-58:
Look at the channels one gets on Sky in the UK..makes DSTV look third world.
14 Jun 2012, 14:14 pm
So all your “5million” dstv subscribers are on the premium package “………….hahahaha ridiculous!
14 Jun 2012, 14:17 pm
@JEZ(DEE DAH)-60: You’ll notice I rounded down to R500 per person to account for that. Once you get a little better at math and research come and talk to me again.
14 Jun 2012, 14:22 pm
SABC revenue 2009 was R5 173 000 000. About 90% would have gone to the directors and R50 went to rugby
14 Jun 2012, 14:25 pm
Premium R559 compact R246 Select R157 hardly averages out at R500 per subscription
14 Jun 2012, 14:38 pm
12million television households in south Africa. license fee projected R250 equals revenue of R3billion currently collecting R870million. (government figures presented by SABC board in 2011) just because SABC is mismanaged doesn’t make DSTV the bad guy. Research done Maths is correct. Excluding ad revenue and R1.4billion government bailout. Moving on
14 Jun 2012, 16:54 pm
@52 H
. They bank billions on the 80 / 20 rule. Most viewers watch just 20% of the channels 80% of the time. You want to catch live rugby? Well, we’ll make you pay for 90 other channels, most of which we know you hate
Good point. DSTV has a nice little swindle on the go.
14 Jun 2012, 17:07 pm
get Riaan Crywagen on supersport and send bobby skinpants to sabc….fair trade
14 Jun 2012, 19:10 pm
Saw now on SS dotcom that SS will show the boks “delayed live” on Saturday on the SS4 (their dedicated soccer channel which is available to those not subscribing to the premium package)
Commendable but the free-to-air audience is still frozen out, including even those who only own a radio set
23 Jun 2012, 17:18 pm
I was an avid Bok fan-now i can”t watch them unless i go into a padded cell for 5 hrs so as not to hear the result-sorry not interested!! until they sort out this tv fiasco-they signed themselves away they must put pressure on the powers that be to enable the people to watch our national team play ???????????
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