{"id":19562,"date":"2023-09-12T06:56:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T04:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=19562"},"modified":"2023-09-12T06:57:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T04:57:25","slug":"sabc-and-multichoice-have-in-principle-reached-an-agreement-regarding-the-broadcasting-rights-for-the-rugby-world-cup-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2023\/09\/12\/sabc-and-multichoice-have-in-principle-reached-an-agreement-regarding-the-broadcasting-rights-for-the-rugby-world-cup-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"SABC And Multichoice Have In Principle Reached An Agreement Regarding The Broadcasting Rights For The Rugby World Cup 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sabc.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"105\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/sabc.png?resize=250%2C105&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19563\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The SABC can confirm that the Corporation has in principle concluded an agreement with MultiChoice to broadcast all the Springbok games. A total of 16 games will be broadcasted on the SABC channels.&nbsp;This agreement will unfortunately exclude OVHD (eMedia) platform because of the restrictive conditions that MultiChoice is placing on the sub-licensing agreement for the Free-to-Air rights for the RWC 2023.&nbsp;This condition cuts off approximately 3.2 million South African households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SABC regrets this irrational decision by MultiChoice, especially in light of Minister Zizi Kodwa\u2019s emphasis that \u201crugby plays a critical role in nation building and social cohesion\u201d.&nbsp;The SABC hopes that in the interest of nation building and social cohesion, MultiChoice will remove this restrictive condition to enable all South Africans to get behind the Boks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SABC would like to thank its broadcast partners, Hollywoodbets and South African Breweries with the Castle Lager Brand who enabled the public broadcaster to secure these important rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC can confirm that the Corporation has in principle concluded an agreement with MultiChoice to broadcast all the Springbok games. A total of 16 games will be broadcasted on the SABC channels.&nbsp;This agreement will unfortunately exclude OVHD (eMedia) platform because of the restrictive conditions that MultiChoice is placing on the sub-licensing agreement for the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2023\/09\/12\/sabc-and-multichoice-have-in-principle-reached-an-agreement-regarding-the-broadcasting-rights-for-the-rugby-world-cup-2023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SABC And Multichoice Have In Principle Reached An Agreement Regarding The Broadcasting Rights For The Rugby World Cup 2023<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-19562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-sabc","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}