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Africa’s leading digital TV operator, StarTimes, has announced the live broadcast of the 2018-19 Copa Del Rey final between Barcelona and Valencia this Saturday.
StarTimes sealed a deal with the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) to acquire TV rights to the cup final.
The game, which is scheduled to take place at the Benito Villamarín Stadium in Seville, will be exclusive to World Football Channel on the StarTimes decoder and mobile app.
La Liga Champions Barcelona will be looking to seal a fifth straight success when they face off with Valencia in the final.
Valencia, on the other hand, secured Champions League football for the second year running by winning 2-0 at Real Valladolid at the weekend, clinching fourth place in La Liga at the expense of Getafe.
The Director of TV StarTimes Ghana, George Lomotey, said, “We are delighted to be bringing to our subscribers the final of the Spanish football’s premier cup competition.
“We are committed to giving our cherished subscribers more and more of great content and this is not an exception.
I will like to take this opportunity to call on all media houses to desist from pirating the content to avoid legal actions against them. StarTimes has exclusive rights in this territory and will sue any offender who infringes upon our copyrights,” he indicated.
In a related development, StarTimes is scheduled to broadcast live the Otumfuo Osei Tutu II commemorative cup match on Sunday May.
The game which will feature two of Africa’s football giants? Kumasi Asante Kotoko of Ghana and Asec Mimosas of Ivory Coast? will be aired on Adepa TV channel 247 and Sports Focus channel 240 to give a wider audience from across the continent for the spectacle.
The match is in commemoration of the 20th anniversary celebration of Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.
StarTimes joined forces with organisers of the game to give it the needed support and international recognition as part of plans to honour the Asantehene.
StarTimes has, in recent times, signed deals with Kotoko to produce their home games of the CAF Confederation Cup tournament, as well as their preparatory games in efforts to support the local game.
From The Sports DeskPC