{"id":13349,"date":"2022-10-27T09:02:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=13349"},"modified":"2022-10-27T09:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:03:23","slug":"media-statement-the-sabc-will-not-broadcast-the-upcoming-soweto-marathon-due-to-exclusive-supersport-rights-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/media-statement-the-sabc-will-not-broadcast-the-upcoming-soweto-marathon-due-to-exclusive-supersport-rights-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT | THE SABC WILL NOT BROADCAST THE UPCOMING SOWETO MARATHON DUE TO EXCLUSIVE SUPERSPORT RIGHTS DEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(14, 16, 26)\">Johannesburg &#8211; Thursday, 27 October 2022 <\/span><\/strong><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(14, 16, 26)\">&#8211; The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will not broadcast the upcoming Soweto Marathon (the Race) on 6 November 2022 as planned. The Corporation was once again deprived of securing the broadcast rights due to the continuous anti-competitive behaviour of broadcasting competitor (SuperSport) and sports rights holder, Athletics South Africa (ASA). The parties negotiated for exclusive rights, which inhibits universal access to the Race as SuperSport\u2019s broadcasting footprint and reach is limited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(14, 16, 26)\">This conduct has barred the SABC from competing effectively in the market of broadcasting premium sports events. Moreover, this behaviour has, in most instances, allowed competitors or private broadcasters to acquire sports rights, leaving the SABC with no choice but to sub-licensing the sports rights at exorbitant sub-licensing fees.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(14, 16, 26)\">In July 2022, the SABC lodged a complaint with the Competition Commission to address the alleged anti-competitive conduct of competitors concerning sports events broadcasting and, in particular, the acquisition of exclusive Broadcast Rights to premium sports events in South Africa. The Corporation is optimistic that this process will be concluded and enable a fair and level ground for all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(14, 16, 26)\">The SABC remains committed to broadcasting sports of national interest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Ends<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span data-ogsc=\"black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Issued By:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Group Communications <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span data-ogsc=\"black\">Media Enquiries:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ms. Gugu Ntuli (Group Executive: Corporate Affairs and Marketing) <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"mailto:NtuliGM@sabc.co.za|T\"><strong>NtuliGM@sabc.co.za|T<\/strong><\/a><strong><span data-ogsc=\"black\">. 011 714 3311|C. 071 877 0513<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg &#8211; Thursday, 27 October 2022 &#8211; The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will not broadcast the upcoming Soweto Marathon (the Race) on 6 November 2022 as planned. The Corporation was once again deprived of securing the broadcast rights due to the continuous anti-competitive behaviour of broadcasting competitor (SuperSport) and sports rights holder, Athletics South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13351,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13349\/revisions\/13351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}