{"id":36489,"date":"2022-09-02T18:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/broadcasters-dsl-for-showdown-talks"},"modified":"2022-09-02T19:31:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T19:31:52","slug":"broadcasters-dsl-for-showdown-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/broadcasters-dsl-for-showdown-talks","title":{"rendered":"Broadcasters, DSL for showdown talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>KAMPALA. The National Association of Broadcasters (Nab) will on Monday meet with Discovery Sports Limited (DSL), a new company claiming to have acquired intellectual property rights of the English Premier League (EPL) in Uganda, to discuss the matter further.<\/p>\n

DSL this week issued multiple notices in the press to radio stations, betting houses and sponsors of radio football broadcasts telling them to stop broadcasting of EPL matches starting from August 29 unless they have clearance from the said company.<\/p>\n

Until then, neither Nab nor its members had an idea about DSL. \u201cTo be honest,\u201d Obadia Ismail Otim, the Nab legal counsel, told Daily Monitor, \u201cI didn\u2019t know about them.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we have spoken to their legal representative and have agreed to a meeting with our members and them on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of now, we have told our members to disregard any notice stopping them from doing their work until we meet with these people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey (DSL) say they have a licence agreement with talkSPORT in the UK, we shall seek to have a look at that, its legality, its lawfulness and then we see a way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

UK radio, talkSPORT, is the licensee of an exclusive package of international audio broadcasting rights of the EPL.<\/p>\n

Public notice for transparency<\/p>\n

According to Timothy Kajja, the DSL legal counsel, they signed off their licence agreement with talkSPORT on August 6 this year.<\/p>\n

Asked why they issued August 29 as the deadline all radio stations with no agreement with SDL should stop any broadcasts of Premier League games, Kajja expounded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that we signed off our agreement with our licensee on August 6 and only issued notices this week shows you we have been doing some ground work to allow for a smooth transition,\u201d Kajja told the Daily Monitor.<\/p>\n

DSL had notified the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) and the National Lotteries and Gaming Regulatory Board before issuing the notices in the press.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, we knew game week five was mid this week and wanted those that want to comply immediately to reach out to us.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy notifying the wider public first we wanted to ensure transparency and also to allow for a transitional period. We chose the date of halting any unauthorised broadcasts of August 29 but we will not go with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have had a discussion with the Nab lawyer and we have agreed to meet with them on Monday for a way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked to provide proof of the agreement between DSL and talkSPORT, Kajja cited confidentiality issues, saying that \u201cat a meeting with regulators and Nab, a version of the agreement will be made available to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Business as usual<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, radio stations that do commentary on the EPL continued unperturbed on match day five on Tuesday, Wednesday and yesterday.<\/p>\n

Central Broadcasting Services (CBS) is one of them. \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about them (DSL),\u201d CBS Programs Manager Abbey Mukiibi told Daily Monitor, \u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, we are continuing with our broadcasts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t use a live feed from them or the stadium. We don\u2019t rebroadcast. We just do it our way. I\u2019m going on with the broadcast. Nothing is stopping.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mukiibi cited a case years back in which Radio One, which had a licence agreement with the BBC Radio 5 Live, challenged CBS and Super FM among others for doing commentary on EPL games yet they had no rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won that case because we don\u2019t carry live feed from them. We have our ways in which we do it and we don\u2019t infringe on their rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kajja admits the above happened, and says the same happened between BBC 5 Live and talkSPORT.<\/p>\n

Legal status of DSL<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time,\u201d explained Kajja, \u201coperators didn\u2019t know how to structure the agreements. That was since sorted. For example, under our agreement with our licensee, we have rights to content, as well as broadcast of games over radio. Those are the rights we have.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the cases cited above, operators lost out because these radios argued that they didn’t use operators’ live feeds. The source is not the issue. The issue is you are broadcasting a product whose rights my licensee owns, and doing so through radio.\u201d<\/p>\n

The status of DSL has also been questioned. According to records at the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB), Discovery Sports Limited (DSL) was first registered as a private company limited by shares on March 6, 2020 under R2000003384621 and dissolved on April 4, 2020.<\/p>\n

It was again registered on June 2, 2022 under R80020003661904. Asked why the interesting sequence, Kajja said it was a requirement of the broadcast rights licensee.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not that there was anything wrong with the company,\u201d argued the lawyer, \u201cit was just a requirement of our licensee because they wanted to do business with a new company, a new slate.\u201d We have not been able to independently verify the claim.<\/p>\n

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