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<p>DSTV is once again not going to broadcast a Ganady Golovkin fight tonight!!!! Over the past year DSTV consistently stopped broadcasting boxing tournaments where the top fighters in the world were involved. Names that comes to light are Ganady Golovkin, Roman Gonzales (Both seen by boxing experts as the top pound-for-pound boxers in the world) and more. The reason for not broadcasting these events were consistently given that the cost was too high. And obviously also that the boxing ratings are low as a tv sport. I would love to know what the rest of South Africa's sporting community thinks of this. Maybe it is time to turn to social media, because DSTV don't even bother to respond to complaints about their sporting schedules.</p> <p>Problem here is that DSTV has a monopoly in South Africa as far as "cable tv" or non-state broadcasting is concerned and they can charge excessive fees for their services and broadcast what they want, which is most certainly not aligned with what their clients want, specifically referring to sport broadcasting. Where are the action sport like top level boxing (Not the second tier events like you ocassionally broadcast) and cage fighting? Mentioning cage fighting which is one of the fastest growing sports in the world, is a sad situation, because there is NO broadcasting of top level cage fighting and actually of any cage fighting, since they even stopped broadcasting the African version of cage fighting called EFC. </p> <p>Can DSTV not publish the value of expenses for the different sports they broadcast, so the public can see where they spend the client's money and where not and why certain sports enjoys by far the biggest percentage of air time, while others have NO broadcasting time?</p>
Dear Gerrit
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MultiChoice : Hello Peter team
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Dear Gerrit
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MultiChoice : Hello Peter team
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Good day Gerrit
Sporting events are broadcast according to the writes secured by SuperSports. SuperSport have made every effort to secure the broadcast rights for the Golovkin-Jacobs fight this past weekend. This included making a direct offer to Tom Loeffler, Golovkin’s promoter.
Unfortunately, negotiations were unsuccessful and we could not broadcast the fight.
We stay committed continually to bring you the best in local and international sporting events.
Regards
Girly
Best regards,
Good day Gerrit
Sporting events are broadcast according to the writes secured by SuperSports. SuperSport have made every effort to secure the broadcast rights for the Golovkin-Jacobs fight this past weekend. This included making a direct offer to Tom Loeffler, Golovkin’s promoter.
Unfortunately, negotiations were unsuccessful and we could not broadcast the fight.
We stay committed continually to bring you the best in local and international sporting events.
Regards
Girly
Best regards,
Dear DSTV,
Thank you for your reply, however noncommittal it may be. Making an offer to the promoter is not meaning you put any significant effort in to broadcast the fight. A R10 offer is also an offer and will definately not be accepted for purchasing the rights to the fight. It happened more and more frequently during the last year that high profile fights are not broadcasted, while they were in the past. Ganady Golovkin fights are but one example. It seems more likely that DSTV are not prepared to pay the asking rate for high profile fights any more because they are cutting cost on sports like boxing to fund their preferred sports. I think sports *****s need to be prepared that less and less broadcasting of boxing will take place and some other sports will be boosted to further enhance the marketing drive of DSTV.
Is DSTV prepared to publish spending on different sporting categories over the past few years as a percentage of total spending on sport broadcasting cost to show their paying clientelle which sports have an increase in spending and which have a decrease?
Why are there only a few sport channels broadcasting other sports than soccer and by far the highest percentage of sport broadcasting is spent on soccer broadcasting? How can one sport be allowed to dominate sport broadcasting channels the way DSTV is pushing soccer broadcasting? Are the interests of the non-soccer *****s not important to DSTV at all?
Dear DSTV,
Thank you for your reply, however noncommittal it may be. Making an offer to the promoter is not meaning you put any significant effort in to broadcast the fight. A R10 offer is also an offer and will definately not be accepted for purchasing the rights to the fight. It happened more and more frequently during the last year that high profile fights are not broadcasted, while they were in the past. Ganady Golovkin fights are but one example. It seems more likely that DSTV are not prepared to pay the asking rate for high profile fights any more because they are cutting cost on sports like boxing to fund their preferred sports. I think sports *****s need to be prepared that less and less broadcasting of boxing will take place and some other sports will be boosted to further enhance the marketing drive of DSTV.
Is DSTV prepared to publish spending on different sporting categories over the past few years as a percentage of total spending on sport broadcasting cost to show their paying clientelle which sports have an increase in spending and which have a decrease?
Why are there only a few sport channels broadcasting other sports than soccer and by far the highest percentage of sport broadcasting is spent on soccer broadcasting? How can one sport be allowed to dominate sport broadcasting channels the way DSTV is pushing soccer broadcasting? Are the interests of the non-soccer *****s not important to DSTV at all?
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