{"id":6680,"date":"2009-01-23T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-23T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T11:54:00","slug":"m-net-lashes-out-at-sabc-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/6680-m-net-lashes-out-at-sabc-proposal.html","title":{"rendered":"M-Net lashes out at SABC proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An SABC proposal for exclusive club soccer rights was an outrageous &quot;Christmas exercise&quot;, M-Net said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It is too obvious (that the SABC)&#8230; is snatching a bargain to further debate,&quot; Schalk Burger, representing M-Net and MultiChoice, told the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa).<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The SABC is on a Christmas exercise,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Burger was responding to a proposal by the public broadcaster submitted to Icasa on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Icasa was hearing submissions from several television channels to create regulations on soccer broadcasting rights. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=155113\">M-Net versus M-Net &#8211; give your views<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M-Net says an SABC proposal for exclusive club soccer rights was outrageous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}