Thursday, July 1, 2021

ESPN Africa finally clears rights for its weekday American sports magazine show SportsCenter that will start airing from 5 July.


by Thinus Ferreira

The weekday American sports magazine show SportsCenter is finally being added to the ESPN Africa international feed of the channel from 5 July after the The Walt Disney Company cleared content rights.

SportCenter is the same as various SuperSport magazine shows, offering a mix of sports news, interviews and sports commentary about American sports like baseball, NFL, American hockey, basketball and other American-centric sports, with Scott Van Pelt and Elle Duncan as the presenters.

SportsCenter will broadcast on weekdays at 10:00 on ESPN (DStv 218 / StarSat 248) with repeats at 13:00 and 17:30, and repeated again on ESPN2 (DStv 219 / StarSat 249) at 16:00.