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Multichoice unveils dedicated channels for sporting events

By Gbenga Salau
30 May 2016   |   1:58 am
General Manager, SuperSport, Felix Awogu said: “SuperSport has always been associated with quality and we pledge to always deliver world-class content to our subscribers.

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• Slashes Decoder’s price

To ensure that television viewers enjoy the best of sporttainment during the Euro 2016, and the Olympic games, Multichoice Nigeria and SuperSport have concluded arrangement not only to broadcast the matches live, through coming up dedicated channels for the sporting events, but also slashed the prize for a decoder, the lowest in 15 years.

At a media parley in Lagos, it was said that for the duration of both tournaments, Euro 2016 taking place in France will be available on SS11 (channel 231) and SS 12 (channel 232), while the Olympics, which will be held in Brazil, will have seven dedicated channels to broadcast all the actions live. It was also revealed that the SuperSport studios would also provide highlights and analyses of the tournaments by experts such as JJ Okocha, Victor Ikpeba and Benny McCarthy, among several others.

General Manager, SuperSport, Felix Awogu said: “SuperSport has always been associated with quality and we pledge to always deliver world-class content to our subscribers. In furtherance to this tradition, we will be bringing the Euro and Rio 2016 tournaments live to the living rooms of subscribers, entertaining them with the blow-by-blow actions of all the matches.”

He promised that the experience would be exciting and much better than it used to be for its viewers

On his part, General Manager, Marketing, Multichoice Nigeria, Martin Mabutho, said that as part of his company’s little way of ensuring that Nigerians enjoy the best of entertainment and better bonding with customers, it has decided to reduce the price of the full unit of the HD Zapper decoder which comes with a one month free subscription to N9,900. “This is the lowest we have given our subscribers in the last 15 years. The offer will take effect from Friday May 27 and it is a limited offer,”Mabutho added.

Aside the price slash, subscribers stand the chance of winning prizes on MultChoice’s social media platforms by participating in the ‘Predict and Win’ competition. According to the Marketing Manager, DStv, Chioma Afe, “A road show will be embarked upon to shopping malls and other locations to enable our esteemed subscribers predict match outcomes and win for themselves amazing prizes. Live updates can be viewed on superssport.com as well as live streaming of matches on DStv online platforms.”

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