damaan:
“Monopoly stunts growth”
Keep that same energy for Dangote MF!

Dangote has no monopoly. Large market share is different from monopoly you illiterate.

GamalNasser:


This has nothing to do with DSTV , please read again , they were talking about events in the country ..please stop blaming DSTV for the failures of your country , didn't HITV get the exclusive rights for one season? Could they manage it beyond one season? Didn't the Nigerian fool incharge of it squander all the money and could pay the next fees...

Stop saying what you don’t know because of the hatred in you as an Igbo man. HiTV could not break even because they had little patronage unlike dstv that has been here for a long time. They made a loss as a new comer as most businesses often don’t make profits in early stages.

PeterUdeme:


HiTV was not owned by a Yoruba man you fool!

And stop reasoning like a typical hate filled Igbo man. He made a loss because he had little coverage unlike dstv to make even. You can’t compare hitv with dstv that has been in Nigeria for many years. He needs time to have many subscribers like dstv.

The Igbo owner of tstv did he also carry big yansh too? Why did it collapse before even starting?

In a bid to act like an ethnic champion, you decided to disgrace yourself.

Shut up if you have no clue what you are talking.
A simple Google Search would tell you that the founder of hitv was oluwatoyin subair.

His financial recklessness wrecked hitv. He lived like an average Yoruba man with money.
Poor investments, extravagance and waste was his modus operandi.

Tstv never existed.
I don't see why you would compare it with a fully functioning pay TV wrecked by madness.

DonFreshmoney:


This is a very bad idea. DSTV should be the only cable broadcasting all Football matches. Its not their fault we don't have suave businessmen who are brave to invest in cable stations. Imagine if one useless cable like startimes have monopoly rights to premier league and dstv retains their champion league rights.. are you saying we would start hunting and buying for 2 or more cable TV to watch matches?

It's not by force to subscribe for Dstv, if you are broke, you can go for GOTV or Strong TV. Dont be who you are not.

Cant you read......."Imagine if one useless cable like startimes have monopoly rights to premier league and dstv retains their champion league rights."
FG just announced they are breaking monopoly and you are still writing...Imagine if one useless cable like startimes have monopoly rights to premier league and dstv retains their champion league rights.

I tire for some people

27Pushing30:


You're being ignorant and obviously do not know the main role of Govt in any society.

is either he is a DSTV staff earning huge salary and knows with this news his salary will be slash by more than 50% or he is just a dumb guy.

jaephoenix:

Its simple.None of the local players have the financial clout to buy the rights

Why should we buy something we dont produce in Nigeria that expensive? Why are they not buying right for Nigerian premier league in London. Trust me, if Nigeria refuses to pay for EPL right, everybody will still watch EPL. Dstv is exploiting us due to ignorance.

taiwoakin:
After reading several comments, I have realized many people here do not understand the policy.

First Dstv does not buy rights from skysports or btsports, rather all rights are sold by the competition organizers.

EPL organizers sell the rights various media organizations worldwide, same thing with uefa.

The rights to each territory are sold via bidding war, so if Dstv pulls out of the bidding other companies can bid to acquire the rights at a fee they can afford.

The policy means startimes can approach Dstv to buy epl rights from them at a fee that would be negotiated by both parties while Dstv can also acquire Europa league rights from startimes.

Note that several broadcast companies have tried in the past to BUY rights from Dstv but they said an emphatic NO, in order to keep monopoly of the viewing audience.

Those in the industry know how these prices are negotiated and what constitutes a fair deal. Reselling of broadcast rights did not just start today, it has been happening for over 10 years.

EG if you bought the rights at 100 million dollars, you can't expect to sell it for more than 50 million dollars.

Thank you for this explanation. I'm grateful.

CSTR2:

In a bid to act like an ethnic champion, you decided to disgrace yourself.

Shut up if you have no clue what you are talking.
A simple Google Search would tell you that the founder of hitv was oluwatoyin subair.

His financial recklessness wrecked hitv. He lived like an average Yoruba man with money.
Poor investments, extravagance and waste was his modus operandi.

Tstv never existed.
I don't see why you would compare it with a fully functioning pay TV wrecked by madness.

Fool. The largest businesses in Nigeria are still owned by Yorubas while your tribe is restricted to 2 by 2 kiosks. Find out why he couldn’t break even instead of your ethnic induced hatred.

Tstv owned by an ibo man couldn’t even take off after scamming Nigerians to subscribe. I guess he used the money to carry olosho and bought chieftaincy titles like you ibos are known for.

jaephoenix:

It doesnt make sense.What if NTA and co are pricing peanuts,are you saying DSTV must sell at that peanut price.T
That directive is plain bullshit

They must sale, wether they like it or not, their mumu don too much

FutureFocus:
This is a good one , HITV would had survived if this law was in place and even TSTV

Did TSTV ever even start?

Eagle cement BUA Larfarge are all into cement biz n just yesterday BUA declared a profit bigger than Dangote, so I do not understand are you wailing for wailing sake or cos you are a bigot ?!

Dangote got waivers for refinery which will in turn save Nigeria trillions of dollars, as much as I do not like that it is the right way to go for any govt. If you consider job creation, forex saved, economic of scale, technical know how maybe you might not have to wail so bitterly.

NimrodEndOfDays:
Bill gates was a genius in marketing and business but he was taken to court because of the fact that the American government wanted a level playing for all and to boost small businesses and not be swallowed by the all too powerful Microsoft. The same scenario played out in the case of John D Rockefeller which his oil company was broken up into which the likes of CHEVRON and some oil multinationals came into existence. Dangote does not have a signboard that says Monopoly but those who have gone into the type of business he does have bad stories to tell. You cannot by giving him waivers and expect him not to be the biggest in Nigeria. And the Nigerian government has done absolutely nothing to protect smaller businesses because of the tribe where this Dangote is from.

lovat:
Lai Mohammed finally made sense.


DSTV monopoly on football is about to be curtailed.


I like this

DSTV (FOOTBALL esp.) included?
Did I just read "LOCAL CONTENT"?
I'm this skeptical 'cause, this people can be "grammars magical scientifically technical".

BTW: This people knows what seems good?

tribalmall:
Eagle cement BUA Larfarge are all into cement biz n just yesterday BUA declared a profit bigger than Dangote, so I do not understand are you wailing for wailing sake or cos you are a bigot ?!

Dangote got waivers for refinery which will in turn save Nigeria trillions of dollars, as much as I do not like that it is the right way to go for any govt. If you consider job creation, forex saved, economic of scale, technical know how maybe you might not have to wail so bitterly.

This is one reason why I dislike talking to people like you. If you want to pass your message do so without making inflammatory remarks. Unless I will come down to your level.

apoti:


Football lovers in Nigeria will be happy with this development. But it seems like a complicated one and FG hasn't provided much details about the modalities. DSTV will not pay premium fees for rights only to be compelled to share with NTA. They would rather not show any content once their current licence expires. But again the Nigerian market too big and they wouldn't want to lose out. The next few years will be very interesting

The good thing is that without exclusivity rights, other broadcasters can also apply for rights to English FA, UEFA etc as long as they can afford it.




The statement from FG said they are mandated to "share". They key point is that they are compelled or mandated to, whether they are sharing for a fee or reselling, DSTV has thrived over the years because they have exclusive rights for the sporting contents. Most people only pay the premium DSTV subscription just for sports. This new development will severely impact their business model and they will have to think hard and restrategise before renewing their current licence.

Star Time has already started showing English FA Matches this season.

PeterUdeme:


Stop saying what you don’t know because of the hatred in you as an Igbo man. HiTV could not break even because they had little patronage unlike dstv that has been here for a long time. They made a loss as a new comer as most businesses often don’t make profits in early stages.

A company that couldnt break even yet the CEO who knew he had obligations was throwing expensive parties and chartering privates jets up and down ...Nigerians are very bad managers of everything you can see the tell tale signs all around you from the streets to your church or mosque .

apoti:


Football lovers in Nigeria will be happy with this development. But it seems like a complicated one and FG hasn't provided much details about the modalities. DSTV will not pay premium fees for rights only to be compelled to share with NTA. They would rather not show any content once their current licence expires. But again the Nigerian market too big and they wouldn't want to lose out. The next few years will be very interesting

The good thing is that without exclusivity rights, other broadcasters can also apply for rights to English FA, UEFA etc as long as they can afford it.




The statement from FG said they are mandated to "share". They key point is that they are compelled or mandated to, whether they are sharing for a fee or reselling, DSTV has thrived over the years because they have exclusive rights for the sporting contents. Most people only pay the premium DSTV subscription just for sports. This new development will severely impact their business model and they will have to think hard and restrategise before renewing their current licence.

Dstv or any channel can purchase the exclusive right and resell to other channels at high price.

DonFreshmoney:


This is a very bad idea. DSTV should be the only cable broadcasting all Football matches. Its not their fault we don't have suave businessmen who are brave to invest in cable stations. Imagine if one useless cable like startimes have monopoly rights to premier league and dstv retains their champion league rights.. are you saying we would start hunting and buying for 2 or more cable TV to watch matches?

It's not by force to subscribe for Dstv, if you are broke, you can go for GOTV or Strong TV. Dont be who you are not.

I really do not know the angle you are looking at this from, but I do think this is a welcome development. No more skyrocketing of DSTV subscription.

taiwoakin:
After reading several comments, I have realized many people here do not understand the policy.

First Dstv does not buy rights from skysports or btsports, rather all rights are sold by the competition organizers.

EPL organizers sell the rights various media organizations worldwide, same thing with uefa.

The rights to each territory are sold via bidding war, so if Dstv pulls out of the bidding other companies can bid to acquire the rights at a fee they can afford.

The policy means startimes can approach Dstv to buy epl rights from them at a fee that would be negotiated by both parties while Dstv can also acquire Europa league rights from startimes.

Note that several broadcast companies have tried in the past to BUY rights from Dstv but they said an emphatic NO, in order to keep monopoly of the viewing audience.

Those in the industry know how these prices are negotiated and what constitutes a fair deal. Reselling of broadcast rights did not just start today, it has been happening for over 10 years.

EG if you bought the rights at 100 million dollars, you can't expect to sell it for more than 50 million dollars.

is it legal now for startimes to buy right from beIN

This is one of those ideas that look good on paper but terrible in practice.

Lotechi:
I really do not know the angle you are looking at this from, but I do think this is a welcome development. No more skyrocketing of DSTV subscription.

UK in the past had only Sky showing EPL matches on TV and people complained about the rising prices like how Nigerians complain about DSTV then BT sports and Amazon Prime got a slice of the market now avid football fans in the UK have to subscribe to Sky, BT and Amazon Prime to watch all matches which in total cost more than when it was only Sky.
So in theory, it was good to "break the monopoly" but the customer ended up paying more.

Same thing would happen in Nigeria. You'll probably have to get, DSTV and Startimes just to watch EPL if this rule goes into effect.

Christmasdon:
. You mean Asin scrambled channel compared to Dstv cloudy weather disrupt.

Nope! I mean as in FAILED TRANSMISSION, in the Plain English meaning of the term...

Cable TV as a line of sight service requires installation transmission facility in every city where services are offered, but Hi-TV instead sort to rely on a single satellite connection (Eutelsat W4, in its case) to spot-beam coverage throughout Nigeria. When transmission issues arose, it simply did not have the requisite technical manpower across the country to timely and/or adequately address same.
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DonFreshmoney:


Imagine if one useless cable like startimes have monopoly rights to premier league and dstv retains their champion league rights.. are you saying we would start hunting and buying for 2 or more cable TV to watch matches?

Reading and Comprehension are two different things.

What the article says is that anyone with rights must share by selling to other broadcasters.

So the person with Premier League must sell to the other person with champions league and vice versa, as long as they can agree on price.

The very thing you are complaining about is what they are trying to solve.

Whether it will work, or other broadcasters will be able to afford the fees is another thing entirely

AshipaEk0:
Reading and Comprehension are two different things.

What the article says is that anyone with rights must share by selling to other broadcasters.

So the person with Premier League must sell to the other person with champions league and vice versa, as long as they can agree on price.

The very thing you are complaining about is what they are trying to solve.

Whether it will work, or other broadcasters will be able to afford the fees is another thing entirely

Why should they sell to their competitors? And why only sports?
The clueless FG (like most Nigerian males) think of EPL football as a RIGHT!

Meanwhile, the NPFL and other local leagues are not even covered by NTA...
Since DSTV stopped covering the Nigerian league, why hasn’t those competitors snapped it up?
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This is a laudable move, but should be done right.

AshipaEk0:

Reading and Comprehension are two different things.

What the article says is that anyone with rights must share by selling to other broadcasters.

So the person with Premier League must sell to the other person with champions league and vice versa, as long as they can agree on price.

The very thing you are complaining about is what they are trying to solve.

Whether it will work, or other broadcasters will be able to afford the fees is another thing entirely

This is a primary reason that a huge market as Nigeria struggles and/or fails to attract significant foreign investment (outside of oil and gas, which in itself is also in stagnation and even relative decline, as we faff about with the PIB legislation for over a decade). Rational foreign investors have little or no confidence in policy or regulatory stability (or even in the transparency of the regulatory process) to make the sort of long-term investment decision that is requisite for foreign direct investment (as opposed to “hot money” portfolio investments).
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PeterUdeme:
Stop saying what you don’t know because of the hatred in you as an Igbo man. HiTV could not break even because they had little patronage unlike dstv that has been here for a long time. They made a loss as a new comer as most businesses often don’t make profits in early stages.

Actually, when it initially won the EPL rights...
Hi-TV ended up with MORE subscribers than DSTV.

The problem was that it could not sustain it, because it had very little else to offer to attract/keep viewers...
Outside of mostly weekend football, household subscribers needed other offerings and the best ones remained on DSTV.

Nigerian men quickly came to discover that many wives and kids were NOT interested in football...
Unless they could buy both DSTV and HiTV decoders, they shall know no peace at home from Big Brother and Kardashian addicts!
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chyket:

I always laugh when people talk and refer to Dangote as a monopoly!!!.
In the late 90's,as a banker,I used to attend Commodities dealers Association meetings in Iddo Market with Dangote in attendance in one or two occasions.
He kept saying that he was going to quit commodity trading in a few years and go into production of household goods for daily living.
His Colleagues were thinking that the boom in the sector was going to last forever and therefore did not see urgent need to diversify and Today many of them,like Clemco,bicu etc have closed shop.Dangote initially took huge loans from Nigerian banks,built his Industries and a few years later, took advantage of the boom in the Nigerian stock exchange and sold some shares and paid of the Nigerian banks and the rest is history.
Today he is building the biggest refinery without any govt support,all the previous refinery licenses have been gathering dust in cupboards in a lot of private offices since 1999.Tommorrow somebody will still shout Dangote Refinery monopoly.

Shut up.you have no idea

Oh

Story story, ten years from now Dstv will still be monopolizing the thing, just increase the bribe for the Nigerian law makers and you are good to go, believe Nigerian government at your own risk.

NimrodEndOfDays:
Look at these fools talking about Monopoly. When you remove the Monopoly from Dangote, then I believe you would be making sense. At least it would create more jobs and a large competitive market.

Bro wake-up and stop being this way.
If the then government is with you doesn't mean every government is going to be with you.
Deinde Fernandez made his billions same way and every other wealthy Nigerians of yesterday were giving such opportunities.
Fernandez lived lavishly and invested heavily abroad but what Dangote did and still doing after that opportunity is truly commendable.
No more monopoly world wide except manipulation.

Microwhy:

Bro wake-up and stop being this way.
If the then government is with you doesn't mean every government is going to be with you.
Deinde Fernandez made his billions same way and every other wealthy Nigerians of yesterday were giving such opportunities.
Fernandez lived lavishly and invested heavily abroad but what Dangote did and still doing after that opportunity is truly commendable.
No more monopoly world wide except manipulation.

doesn't make it right. Moreover all I want is a level playing field