Earlier this month, eMedia Investments shocked viewers with the news they no longer have rights to La Liga after announcing last year they acquired 4 year rights to the match.
Now it looks like that might not be the only thing cancelled on eMedia's portfolio apparently through an updated schedule the twelfth season of Britain's Got Talent replaces Impact Wrestling after a year on on e.tv from September 26th.
Maybe Impact Wrestling will become an Openview exclusive through their News and Sport channel seeing as they still mention it unlike DBE TV but I have my doubts on that as mentioned they no longer have rights to La Liga even after signing a 4 year agreement and also they haven't been promoting it for a while now.
Perhaps, they're putting more focus on eVOD as mentioned a month ago. They'd be investing R100 million on fresh content for that service and those millions had to come from somewhere.
Cancellation of La Liga was probably in that R100 million perhaps even all the sports e.tv acquired for their channel alongside News and Sport. So where does that leave News and Sport?
Since the introduction of SABC Sport onto the Openview platform, eMedia Investments has been very distant with their News and Sport channel through promotion on Openview as they divert attention to a rival's sports channel and it's offering.
It wouldn't be surprising if SABC Sport picked up rights to some of these matches seeing as the channel is pretty much the glue in the relationship.
Britain's Got Talent season 12 airs Sundays at 16:40 on e.tv apparently from 26 September. Chances are this is nothing but it seems very likely to occur.
SCHEDULE UPDATE: Impact Wrestling is saved as e.tv now moves it to Saturdays at 16:20.
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