DID YOU KNOW…?
In Kampala, Uganda, the Saint Joseph's Vocational School (Jovoc) has been closed after the students held a strike on Tuesday, October 2 because the institution has not connected to the new pay television channel GTV. The new pay TV service provider has rights to broadcast 80% of English Premier League matches. Matters came to a head when both Manchester United and Arsenal Champions League games could not be telecast simultaneously. Students rioted, breaking glasses. The school's headmaster,Fr.Bernadict Njunwoha when contacted, was in a crucial meeting but confirmed that they had sent home all the students. Source: All Africa, 4th Oct 2007
SPORTS SHORTS
* MP & Silva signed an agreement with Barclays Premier League club, Aston Villa Football Club to distribute Aston Villa Channel programming. The Programming Block is a weekly programme that includes delayed coverage of all of the club’s 38 home and away Premier League matches. The territories covered by this exclusive agreement include Asia, South Africa and the Middle East. MP & Silva has already signed two distribution deals for the current 2007-08 season with Qatar-based television network, Al Jazeera, and Indonesian free-to-air broadcaster, Trans TV (Televisi Transformasi Indonesia). Source: Sport Business, 4th Oct 2007
* The two Koreas are said to have taken a big step forward towards sending a unified team to the Beijing Olympics next year. Reports in Korea suggest the two sides have come close to an agreement following a meeting between South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-il. The two sides have discussed the possibility of a joint team on four occasions since December 2005 but have so far failed to reach a compromise. However, South Korea said recently that it would accept the North's proposal of an even number of athletes in several events. Source: Sportcal, 4th Oct 2007
* Zee TV USA has launched its sports channel Zee Sports America on EchoStar's satellite service platform Dish Network. The channel was launched on 26 September on the Dish Network on channel 576. The channel will provide coverage of South Asian sports such as Indian football, cricket, golf, and motor sports including Zee's original productions such as the Daily Sports News, Sports Café, Football Café, Sports Sunday, World Motor Sports Magazine, Twenty Two Yards, Cricket Talk and Cricket First. Source: Indian Television, 4th Oct 2007
* UK pay-television operator, British Sky Broadcasting, which provides comprehensive coverage of international cricket, is reported to have renewed its deal to cover international matches played in the Caribbean. The four-year agreement with the West Indies Cricket Board is worth $20 million, according to the Guardian newspaper. The deal is due to come into effect in 2009, when England are due to tour the West Indies for four test matches and five one-day internationals. Under its current deal, which has one year to run, BSkyB acts as the host broadcaster of the West Indies’ home matches and manages the WICB’s international rights. Source: Sportcal, 4th Oct 2007
* UK production company, North One Television, today announced its acquisition of International Sportsworld Communicators, holder of the media and commercial rights for World Rally Championship. North One said that it ‘plans to re-energise the ISC business, especially in the television, licensing and digital arenas.’ Speculation over the future of ISC had increased following its move from west London to North One’s headquarters north of the capital. North One has provided host broadcaster coverage of the WRC since August 2000. Last year, ISC ceded responsibility for securing new television and sponsorship partners for WRC to Sportfive, the international sports agency. Source: Sportcal, 4th Oct 2007
* Octagon has today been appointed by CONI, the Italian Olympic Committee, to secure multi-national sponsors for its teams in forthcoming games. Octagon, a division of advertising group Interpublic, will target companies in the influential markets of North America and Asia-Pacific, while assisting Publitalia, the advertising agency which is responsible for selling packages to companies in Italy and the rest of Europe. It is the first time that CONI has employed an agency to assist it in the procurement of sponsors and reflects a need to look far beyond national boundaries for commercial support. Source: Sportcal, 4th Oct 2007
* Fifa and the regime of Sepp Blatter are to be the target of BBC’s current affairs programme, Panorama, which will focus on an alleged £4-million ($8.1-million) pay-off awarded to former secretary general Urs Linsi, ousted earlier this year. Linsi was replaced by Jérôme Valcke, the former head of Fifa Marketing and TV, who was one of four officials ‘dismissed’ by Fifa in December last year for their part in a controversial sponsorship deal with Visa. Blatter himself took responsibility for the outcome of the dispute, following Valcke’s reappointment. The dispute cost Fifa $90 million, the price of extricating itself from its relationship with MasterCard, a sponsor of the last four World Cups. Source: Sportcal, 4th Oct 2007
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