Supersport seals deal for GPL television coverage

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• Iwan 12 years ago

  While we watch EPL, Bundesliga, Spanish Laliga etc, South Africans watch Hearts vrs Kotoko. Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)for making our game global.

  While we watch EPL, Bundesliga, Spanish Laliga etc, South Africans watch Hearts vrs Kotoko. Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)for making our game global.

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• mike 12 years ago

  whos got time to watch ghana premier league people are watching the english primier league italian french and spanish and german league whos got time to watch the backward ghana country league am not intrrested in ghana footb ...
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  whos got time to watch ghana premier league people are watching the english primier league italian french and spanish and german league whos got time to watch the backward ghana country league am not intrrested in ghana football or any african football its all about europe

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• OSEI TAWIAH 12 years ago

  Please GFA, we want all Black Star matches live on Ghana TV, friendly or no friendly.

  Please GFA, we want all Black Star matches live on Ghana TV, friendly or no friendly.

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• Sammy the Sheriff 12 years ago

  Hopefully you are not a Ghanaian with this slave mentality. Inferiority complex has afflicted a whole generation of Ghanaians watching EPL and other European leagues whilst they abandon he local league. A Psychologist can eve ...
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  Hopefully you are not a Ghanaian with this slave mentality. Inferiority complex has afflicted a whole generation of Ghanaians watching EPL and other European leagues whilst they abandon he local league. A Psychologist can even tell you Mike without you oening your mouth as having inferiority complex by the way you wrote your name, with "M" as first letter in lower case.

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• GHFUO, change ur thinking 12 years ago

  HOW DO U SELL THE LEAGUE RIGHTS TO SUPER SPORT FOR $700,000 A YR. JESUS CHRIST, THIS GUY IS TOO STUPID TO BE GFA HEAD. SUPERSPORT WILL NOW SELL SOME OF THE GAMES TO TV COMPANIES/NATIONS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN BUYING/WATCHING G ...
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  HOW DO U SELL THE LEAGUE RIGHTS TO SUPER SPORT FOR $700,000 A YR. JESUS CHRIST, THIS GUY IS TOO STUPID TO BE GFA HEAD. SUPERSPORT WILL NOW SELL SOME OF THE GAMES TO TV COMPANIES/NATIONS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN BUYING/WATCHING GH LEAGUE GAMES. IS 700,000 DOLLARS A GOOD ENUFF FIGURE FOR GFA N OUR LEAGUE CLUBS? LOOK AT THE POPULARITY OF GH SOCCER IN AFRICA N ALL OVER THE WORLD. ON WAT BASIS/CRITERIA DID SUPERSPORT N GFA REACH TO DECIDE ON THIS MEAGRE FIGURE? LOOK, GH LEAGUE IS NOT LIKE THE TANZANIAN OR MALAWI LEAGUE TO COMMAND SUCH LOW FIGURES. WE HAVE MADE A NAME FOR OUR BRAND OF SOCCER OVER THE YRS.
  FOLKS, THIS IS WHAT THE PREMIER LEAGUE IN UK DOES....
  The Premier League sells its television rights on a collective basis. The money is divided into three parts:[48] half is divided equally between the clubs; one quarter is awarded on a merit basis based on final league position, the top club getting twenty times as much as the bottom club, and equal steps all the way down the table; the final quarter is paid out as facilities fees for games that are shown on television, with the top clubs generally receiving the largest shares of this. The income from overseas rights is divided equally between the twenty clubs. The first Sky television rights agreement was worth £304 million over five seasons.[50] The next contract, negotiated to start from the 1997–98 season, rose to £670 million over four seasons.[50] The third contract was a £1.024 billion deal with BSkyB for the three seasons from 2001–02 to 2003–04. The league brought in £320 million from the sale of its international rights for the three-year period from 2004–05 to 2006–07. It sold the rights itself on a territory-by-territory basis.[51] Sky's monopoly was broken from August 2006 when Setanta Sports was awarded rights to show two out of the six packages of matches available. This occurred following an insistence by the European Commission that exclusive rights should not be sold to one television company. Sky and Setanta paid a total of £1.7 billion, a two-thirds increase which took many commentators by surprise as it had been widely assumed that the value of the rights had levelled off following many years of rapid growth. Setanta also hold rights to a live 3 pm match solely for Irish viewers. The BBC has retained the rights to show highlights for the same three seasons (on Match of the Day) for £171.6 million, a 63 per cent increase on the £105 million it paid for the previous three-year period.[52] Raidió Teilifís Éireann broadcast the highlights package in Ireland. Sky and BT have agreed to jointly pay £84.3 million for delayed television rights to 242 games (that is the right to broadcast them in full on television and over the internet) in most cases for a period of 50 hours after 10 pm on matchday.[53] Overseas television rights fetched £625 million, nearly double the previous contract.[54] The total raised from these deals is more than £2.7 billion, giving Premier League clubs an average media income from league games of around £40 million-a-year from 2007 to 2010.[55]
  
  
  Cristiano Ronaldo preparing to take a free kick in a 2009 match between Manchester United and Liverpool.
  The TV rights agreement between the Premier League and Sky has faced accusations of being a cartel, and a number of court cases have arisen as a result.[56] An investigation by the Office of Fair Trading in 2002 found BSkyB to be dominant within the pay TV sports market, but concluded that there were insufficient grounds for the claim that BSkyB had abused its dominant position.[57] In July 1999 the Premier League's method of selling rights collectively for all member clubs was investigated by the UK Restrictive Practices Court, who concluded that the agreement was not contrary to the public interest.[58] The BBC's highlights package on Saturday and Sunday nights, as well as other evenings when fixtures justify, will run until 2016.[59] Television rights alone for the period 2010 to 2013 have been purchased for £1.782 billion.[60] On 22 June 2009, due to troubles encountered by Setanta Sports after it failed to meet a final deadline over a £30 million payment to the Premier League, ESPN was awarded two packages of UK rights containing a total of 46 matches that were available for the 2009–10 season as well as a package of 23 matches per season from 2010–11 to 2012–13.[61] On 13 June 2012, the Premier League announced that BT had been awarded 38 games a season for the 2013–14 through 2015–16 seasons at £246 million-a-year. The remaining 116 games were retained by BSkyB who will pay £760 million-a-year. The total rights have raised £3.018 billion, an increase of 70.2% over the 2010–11 to 2012–13 rights.[62]

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