While the football world is enjoying the UEFA European Football Championship [1], many countries in Africa are restricted to watching 8 tournament games [2]. Jentilisa, blogging from Madagascar, explains that the number of games to be broadcasted was decided by AFNEX [3](African Network and News Exchange) who bought the rights to the tournament in the region for African national televisions. He argues that Africa is home to many of the elite players who play in major European clubs [4] and soon home of the next FIFA World Cup 2010 in South-Africa [5] and the tournament should not be restricted to rich people who owns satellite dishes. He wishes that Chinese TV CCTV would dispute this monopoly in the future and lower the broadcasting fees for resource limited nations (fr and mg).
Madagascar: why is Africa deprived of the UEFA European Cup ?
· Written by Lova Rakotomalala
Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Arts & Culture, International Relations, Media & Journalism, Sport