{"id":20439,"date":"2023-03-31T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T09:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=294298"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:26:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T09:56:32","slug":"ipl-2023-south-africa-not-able-to-broadcast-ipl-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2023-south-africa-not-able-to-broadcast-ipl-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2023: South Africa set to miss IPL broadcasting rights for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africans won\u2019t be able to watch the IPL for the first time since its debut in 2008 after pay-television channel SuperSport announced it had not obtained the rights. Prior to this year, SuperSport aired the entirety of the IPL\u2019s 15 seasons; however, in June, Viacom18 won the Sub-Saharan African rights back from SuperSport.<\/p>\n<p>The rights to Australia, New Zealand, and England were also acquired by Viacom18. Although it has no physical footprint in any of the nations, fans in Australia, New Zealand, and England can watch the IPL thanks to broadcasters who have agreements with Viacom18. In contrast, SuperSport has not.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\u201cSuperSport previously held broadcast rights to the Indian Premier League,\u201d a SuperSport spokesperson told <em>ESPNcricinfo<\/em>. \u201cCommercial discussions with the rights holder for the next cycle of rights have unfortunately been unsuccessful and SuperSport will therefore not broadcast the IPL as of this year\u2019s edition.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ds-w-full ds-bg-fill-content-prime ds-overflow-hidden ds-rounded-xl ds-border ds-border-line ds-float-right ds-w-72 ds-ml-7 ds-my-6\">\n<div class=\"ds-flex ds-px-4 ds-border-b ds-border-line ds-py-3\">\n<div class=\"ds-flex ds-flex-col ds-grow ds-justify-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africans won\u2019t be able to watch the IPL for the first time since its debut in 2008 after pay-television\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":40991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1041,254],"class_list":["post-20439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-csa","tag-south-africa"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}