Kwese and Azam TV are in a fierce contest to secure the rights of the Kenya premier league .
The two companies were also in a similar fight in acquisition of the rights of the CECAFA senior challenge with the latter winning .
The CECAFA TV rights have been awarded to Azam Media despite Kwese TV tweeting earlier on their presence in Kenya to show live all the CECAFA senior challenge matches
When it comes to the KPL,both Kwese and Azam are chasing for the rights to replace off colour Bamba sports TV
KPL through its company KPL Ltd in an advert in the local dailies yesterday advertised for bidding tenders for media rights for all its events in 2018/19/20 .the events include KPL ,KPL top 8 and KPL awards .
Supersort cancelled its broadcast rights with KPL in mid season prompting the top tier management to get a temporary relief from Bamba .
Even though Bamba are still in the race for the bidding rights ,analysts have pointed out at Azam who are best place to beat the remaining companies .
Why Azam Media ?
Azam media owned by Zanzibari born Tanzanian business mogul Said Salim Bakhresa is the broadcast right holder for Tanzania ,Rwanda and Uganda top tier leagues with its presence also in Kenya ,Malawi and Burundi .
Salim Bakhresa is the founder of Bakhresa Group of companies
Azam TV Directors with Rwandan officials during the signing of the TV deal in Kigali
Azam is popular in Tanzania and they own the giant Azam Football Club with a magnificent Chamazi Stadium.
Azam Media has nine sports channels showing the Spanish LA liga ,Vodacom league
and Uganda league .They also own a football club in Malawi called Azam Tigers
Azam TV sports has Azam one,Azam two,Azam Sports HD,Fox Sports ,Fox sports 2,MUTV,RMTV ,MCS sports Chanel
Azam TV replaced supersport in Uganda after securing top flight rights in a 1.9 Million Pounds deal before securing the Rwanda top league worth 2.35 Dollars
In the same year 2015 Azam Media secured the Kenyan second tier league rights from MP &Silva but the deal went sour
The two companies Azam and Kwese are keen on the Kenyan market .
