GFA invite media houses to submit bids for the Television and Radio rights of its competitions ahead of 2019-2020 season, StarTimes broadcasting rights terminated?
The GFA have invited media organizations to submit their bid for the Television and Radio coverage rights of its competitions ahead of the 2019-2020 football season.
The coverage rights if granted by the football governing body in case a media house supposedly meets GFA’s bidding requirements will revolve around five major competitions of the Ghana Premier League, Division One League, Women’s Premier League, Men’s FA Cup and Women’s FA Cup in the stated football season.
The deadline for the submission of bids by all interested Television and Radio media organizations is on 10th December, 2019.
In a statement released by the GFA on Thursday morning reads, “The Ghana Football Association (GFA) is inviting bids from media organisations for the television broadcast rights for the following competitions:
- Ghana Premier League;
- Division One League;
- Women’s Premier League;
- FA Cup;
- Women’s FA Cup.
Bidders are allowed to bid for all the marketing assets listed above or any combination of the assets.
Deadline for the submission of bids is 5pm on Tuesday, December 10, 2019.
All complete bids must be addressed to the General Secretary of the GFA before the deadline.
Transparency Note
The GFA wishes to inform the general public since coming into office of the new Executive Council, media organisations have submitted proposals to the GFA.
GFA INVITES BIDS FOR ITS RADIO MEDIA RIGHTS
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) is inviting bids from media organisations for the radio broadcast rights/partnership for the following competitions:
- Ghana Premier League;
- Division One League;
- Women’s Premier League;
- FA Cup;
- Women’s FA Cup.
Bidders are allowed to bid for all the marketing assets listed above or any combination of the assets.
Deadline for the submission of bids is 5pm on Tuesday, December 10, 2019.
All complete bids must be addressed to the General Secretary of the GFA before the deadline.
This official release suggests that the GFA have cancelled out it’s broadcasting rights agreement with Chinese pay TV firm StarTimes. In 2016, StarTimes signed a groundbreaking deal with the GFA to hold the media rights telecast Ghana Premier League, the Gala, the National Division One League, the MTN FA Cup, the Ghana Women’s League and the Ghana Juvenile League for the next 10 years.
The Chinese pay TV firm however failed to telecast the 2019 Normalization Committee Special Competition, where the rights of telecast was issued to GTV. It’s unclear without the the GFA-StarTimes broadcasting rights has been cancelled permanently or was abrogate just under the GFA Normalization Committee.
However, GFA’s latest release, “The Ghana Football Association (GFA) is inviting bids from media organisations for the television broadcast rights for the following competitions”. “Bidders are allowed to bid for all the marketing assets listed above or any combination of the assets.” generate sense of many interpretations, which one points out to StarTimes broadcasting rights from GFA has been terminated.
