Nick Mwendwa announces new broadcasting deal for Kenya Football
After several years without a broadcast partner, local football is set to be broadcast once again thus giving footballers and opportunity to showcase their skills to a wider audience
Additional reporting from the Nation
Football Kenya Federation (FKF) president Nick Mwendwa has announced a broadcast deal involving StarTimes, the men and women national teams, top-flight league, and second-tier.
The FKF boss took to Twitter to make the announcement on Tuesday.
He further explained that the deal was worth Sh770 million over seven years and it will entail the broadcast of live matches involving the aforementioned teams.
“FKFPL (is) back on TV!!(the) 7-year deal, 1.1 million dollars a year including national teams men and women, NSL 30 matches,” tweeted Mwendwa.
He did not announce when this deal will take effect.
Chinese-owned StarTimes, which has a similar deal with Uganda’s top-flight football league, is yet to comment on the development.
When it is unveiled, StarTimes will replace South African-owned payTV Supersport, which walked out on a five-year agreement in 2017 following a contractual dispute.
This is the second multi-million sponsorship deal Mwendwa is announcing on Twitter in the past three months.
Football Kenya Federation President Nick Mwendwa (left) with Ulinzi Stars chairman Col. Erick Oloo after signing the StarTimes broadcast rights deal on September 29, 2020 in Nairobi.
In July, Mwendwa, who has offered himself for re-election, announced Nigerian betting firm BetKing as the FKF Premier League title sponsors in a deal worth Sh1.2 billion over five years.
Both deals are yet to formally be launched.
This is good news.
That KPL has not paid the league winners their prize money for the last 2 seasons, yet they had money to file numerous court cases, means that they don’t deserve to be given another chance to run any football activity in Kenya, not even a village tournament.
They haven’t paid the league winners because the money went to cover the many fines Gor hasn’t paid stemming from damages caused by your fans e.g., breaking chairs at Kasarani, stoning cars, urinating on mama mbogas vegetables etc etc
Don’t be blinded by hatred for those better than you instead learn from them.
Efusi fans were the last group to damage Kasarani.
Anyway, unlike She can da, thank you for acknowledging GMFC as league winners.
*hatred of
This is a good thing if confirmed. Somewhere in the tweet it is said that the Chinese owned star times has not commented on the same.