The Management of TStv Africa, a Nigeria Direct to home Pay TV operator has announced acquisition of rights to broadcast live to Nigerians matches of the English Football League (EFL) Championship beginning from today.
This was made known by TStv Africa via its Facebook page.
The company also explained that with the acquisition of the EFL TV rights, Nigerians and other subscribers across Sub-Saharan Africa will enjoy all matches from the EFL in high definition quality on TStv.
It will be recalled that in a previous statement released prior to the announcement of the EFL rights holding, TStv had thanked Nigerians for their patience and apologised for all inconvenience caused to everyone.
The statement then went on to announce that TStv would begin test broadcast services from Thursday the 10th of September as broadcast signals would be beamed from Berlintersat at 51.5 degrees East with specified frequency, polarity and symbol rate.
EFL is the second – highest overall in the English Football League after the premier league. The league is contested by 24 clubs. Each season, the two top-finishing teams in the championship are automatically promoted to the premier league.