M-Net lashes out at SABC proposal
An SABC proposal for exclusive club soccer rights was an outrageous "Christmas exercise", M-Net said on Friday.
"It is too obvious (that the SABC)… is snatching a bargain to further debate," Schalk Burger, representing M-Net and MultiChoice, told the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa).
"The SABC is on a Christmas exercise," he added.
Burger was responding to a proposal by the public broadcaster submitted to Icasa on Thursday.
The SABC proposed that derbies become so-called listed events. This means that only free-to-air broadcasters be allowed to bid for the rights to matches between clubs of the same city that draw fierce support.
Icasa was hearing submissions from several television channels to create regulations on soccer broadcasting rights.
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