Super League of Malawi (Sulom) Treasurer, Tiya Somba-Banda, has disclosed that TNM Super League\u2019s live television beaming rights will now be opened on game-to-game basis.<\/p>\n
The development comes amid uncertainty surrounding such rights, currently being held by Beta Television.<\/p>\n
Beta signed a three-year contract with Sulom last year, but the station failed to beam matches this year, let alone pay the league governing body K40 million it owed.<\/p>\n
Of late, other media organisations have been beaming the games, raising questions on the contract between Beta and Sulom.<\/p>\n
Banda on Monday said any television station was now free to broadcast the games.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom now onwards, the TV rights are on a game-to-game basis. [This is so] considering that Beta TV constructively gave us the go-ahead to open up the beaming of the games to other broadcasters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Sulom treasurer was, however, unclear if the decision means that Beta had thrown in the towel.<\/p>\n
Asked on how far Sulom had gone with plans to consult legal advisors on breach of the contract by Beta, Banda said: \u201cthe matter is currently filed at the Commercial Court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nyasa Big Bullets Interim General Secretary, Albert Chigoga, applauded the decision, but urged Sulom to first clear the mist surrounding Beta\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a good idea [for Sulom to find an alternative], because clubs would like to benefit from the Super League games. But Sulom has to speed up all the legal processes to put this whole mess to a rest.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition, if it means terminating the contract, it will be good to follow all the necessary procedures in a bid to find Beta\u2019s replacement. What we want is efficiency,\u201d Chigoga said.<\/p>\n
Beta emerged the best in the bidding process, followed by Times Television, which submitted a comprehensive win-win Calabash model, and Matindi Television came on third place.<\/p>\n
Beta suspended its operations citing lack of sponsorship.<\/p>\n
Beta Director, Maneno Mtawali, referred The Daily Times <\/em>to the station\u2019s Manager, Theunis Bester, who yesterday admitted advising Sulom to open up the rights.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we said earlier, beaming such games is very expensive and we indeed told Sulom to consider such action, with possibility that we will return in near future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Super League of Malawi (Sulom) Treasurer, Tiya Somba-Banda, has disclosed that TNM Super League\u2019s live television beaming rights will now be opened on game-to-game basis. The development comes amid uncertainty surrounding such rights, currently being held by Beta Television. Beta signed a three-year contract with Sulom last year, but the station failed to beam matches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51460,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51456\/revisions\/51460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}