Approximately 100 million Nigerians may finally be able to watch their
darling Super Eagles Team on Terrestrial Television platforms, a
source privy to the TV negotiations has just informed us.
It may sound trite, but as the Super Eagles have defied the odds to
book a place in Sunday's Afcon final, millions of their countrymen
back home haven't been able towatch them on affordable free-to-air
platforms due to a wrangling financial dispute between broadcast
owners, Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the Nigerian
broadcast body, the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON).The
saving grace has been Cable TV Channels from where thousands of
Viewingcentres have been milking the populace dry.
Huge sums of money from sponsorship deals may have been lost as well
owing to the stalemate, but it does look like the two warring parties
have found a middle ground and the guy with a Television in the
village may just be able to catch Nigeria in action on Sunday from
Johannesburg, after all.
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