Sports minister Gayton McKenzie has threatened to go to war with broadcasters over sports rights.
has warned broadcasters MultiChoice Group, the SABC and eMedia to resolve the ongoing battle around the sublicensing of major sports matches “peacefully” – before he “declares war” on them.
“I am not going to be an enabler of the majority of our people not being able to watch the national rugby or soccer teams. There exists a piece of legislation, which has never been used, that prevents them from engaging in the current action that they are engaging in. I intend to fully use that legislation,” said McKenzie. “We come in peace, but if they want war, they will get war.”McKenzie did not say which piece of legislation he was referring to or what section of the law he might utilise.
One major issue is a clause MultiChoice subsidiary SuperSport has placed in sublicensing deals with the SABC that prevents the public broadcaster from transmitting the matches on its own channels via eMedia’s Openview free-to-air satellite platform. The SABC and SuperSport then, earlier this month, each announced they had reached an agreement over the broadcast of the T20 World Cup cricket final as well as two rugby test matches between the Springboks and Ireland in July – an agreement that once again sidelined the Openview platform.
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