Indigenous pay TV operator, StarTimes, has acquired media rights to the 2018 FIFA World Cup as the world’s football body officially granted media rights to all 2017-2018 FIFA events in Sub-Saharan Africa, recently. StarTimes has been awarded payTV transmission rights for exploitation in all 42 territories of sub-Saharan Africa, except South Africa, with regard to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Besides the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, StarTimes also gets the pay-TV transmission rights in sub-Saharan Africa for all the other 2017-2018 FIFA events (except the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 in South Africa).
“We are so glad to offer the best football matches to our subscribers in Africa, having secured the broadcasting rights to the 2018 FIFA World Cup and all the other 2017-2018 FIFA events. Consistent with StarTimes’ mission and values, our search for best sport contents is always at the heart of our commitment to service excellence.
In this regard, our partnership with FIFA will definitely help to serve up a football feast to African football fans in the coming days,” said Michael Dearham, StarTimes Vice-President and Managing Director of Media Division.
The 2017-2018 FIFA events comprise FIFA U-20 World Cup 2017, FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017, FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2017, FIFA Confederations Cup 2017, FIFA U-20 W o m e n ’ s World Cup 2018, FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2018 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
