Last year, WWE and MultiChoice announced a major broadcast partnership that will see Showmax – the leading streaming service available in the region – become the new home of WWE Network in Africa.
The partnership incorporates all WWE Premium Live Events, including WrestleMania, as well as WWE Network’s vast library of original and archived programming available to stream on-demand.
Additionally, SuperSport, the sport broadcasting subsidiary of video entertainment platform MultiChoice, will continue to broadcast live weekly episodes of Raw, SmackDown and NXT as well as all of WWE’s Premium Live Events in a multi-year extension.
Of course, WWE Channel wasn't mentioned in this multi-year extension. In a media enquiry, as to whether the channel could be slam dunked from DStv consumers across Africa. MultiChoice responded to say the channel would remain aboard the platform.
But questions amount to why this wasn't mentioned by neither SuperSport or WWE in press statements. Could it be that WWE Channel will be getting chopped possibly when this multi-year extension reaches its expiration date.
I mean the only thing premium or relevant within WWE is Raw, SmackDown, NXT and live PPVs. Everything else is basically a hit miss and mostly rebroadcast and a channel which is managed by SuperSport they're favourable in terms of rebroadcasts.
The idea of SuperSport phasing out the channel doesn't seem far fetched. My guess as to why they're probably keeping it on air could be popularity which journeys back to e.tv and another SuperSport could be looking at ways to supplement WWE.
Now I don't how they plan to supplement something like WWE but from what I've seen you got a selected number of SuperSport channels offering live or rebroadcasts to selected content or as mentioned in their agreement Jambo, Raw, SmackDown, NXT and live PPVs.
Additionally, there's SuperSport Action which is home to extreme sports like UFC and EFC mixed martial arts programming. Basically a fight sports channel kind of fitting the bar set to up by WWE perhaps eliminating the rugby and soccer would make it the ideal candidate.
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