The fight between eMedia and MultiChoice over sports rights is headed to South Africa's competition authorities.
eMedia said on Tuesday that it had filed papers with the commission over MultiChoice’s refusal to allow rugby and cricket games sublicensed to the SABC to be carried on the public broadcaster’s channels on the Openview free-to-air satellite platform.of a high court challenge against MultiChoice over the rights to broadcast the Rugby World Cup, with the court finding that the matter was not urgent.
“We have lodged a complaint with the Competition Commission and we have filed papers before the Competition Tribunal in respect of the provision in the sublicensing agreements concluded between MultiChoice and the SABC that prevent the SABC from utilising third-party platforms to transmit SABC channels that broadcast national sporting events,” eMedia said in a statement on Tuesday.
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