Africa's Sports Production Infrastructure

The Game Was Always There.

African sport has talent, audiences, and events with wider distribution potential. The production infrastructure needed to carry more of those events is not consistently available at scale. SSA is developing a platform to address that gap.

Stadium / Cameras & Audio LIVE
Portable Fiber Zone PFZ
SSA Stadium Node NODE v1
Dedicated Event Circuit LOW LAT
REMI Hub / NOC PHASED
Broadcaster / Streamer LIVE OUT
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Year 1 Target Nodes
25–35
Year 1 Target Live Events
8–10
Year 3 Target Nodes
90–120
Year 3 Target Live Events
The Problem

The Infrastructure Gap
Is The Story

Many African sports properties face production, connectivity, and operating constraints that limit consistent professional coverage. The opportunity is to make reliable live-production capability more repeatable across venues and markets.

Stadiums without broadcast infrastructure
Many venues need temporary connectivity, signal routing, and production systems before a professional live broadcast can begin.
Traditional production is difficult to scale
Outside-broadcast vehicles and large travelling crews can add cost and logistical complexity, especially across multiple venues and markets.
Inconsistent connectivity
Signal reliability varies dramatically across African markets. Without a purpose-built event circuit, even technically capable productions suffer unpredictable quality.
Lost commercial value
When fewer events can be produced consistently, sports organizations have fewer opportunities to build distribution, sponsorship, and audience value.
The Platform

Three Entities.
One Ecosystem.

SSA, SSN, and APA are structurally separate but strategically integrated. Infrastructure. Demand. Talent. Each layer makes the others stronger.

SSA
Schemes Sports Africa
Infrastructure

Is developing portable Stadium Nodes, fiber-based event circuits, REMI workflows, and centralized operating capability. SSA is positioned as the infrastructure layer rather than the content-rights holder.

  • Portable stadium production nodes
  • Fiber-based event circuits
  • REMI remote production workflows
  • Phased remote operations development
SSN
Schemes Sports Network
Demand & Content

Is developing event, production, distribution, and commercial opportunities around African sports content, including potential broadcaster, streaming, and sponsorship relationships.

  • Non-exclusive, short-term event rights
  • Premium live sports production
  • Distribution to broadcasters & OTT
  • Sponsorship and brand integrations
APA
Africa Production Academy
Talent Pipeline

A nomadic pan-African broadcast training institution. Registered in Rwanda. Builds the next generation of African sports production professionals.

  • Nomadic model: Lagos → Kigali → Nairobi
  • Technical Directors, REMI Engineers
  • Certification pathway in development
  • Training and production-readiness pathways
How It Works
Input
Stadium / Cameras & Audio
6–8 SDI feeds captured at source
Zone
Portable Fiber Zone (PFZ)
Signal aggregation and local routing
Node
SSA Stadium Node
Encode, route, transmit. No OB truck.
Circuit
Dedicated Event Circuit
Low-latency fiber uplink to NOC
Operations
REMI Hub / NOC
Initial validation in Canada; Kigali pathway under exploration
Output
Broadcaster / Streamer
Broadcaster, streamer, or rights holder

Smaller Venue Footprint.
Centralized Operations.
Repeatable Delivery.

Traditional outside-broadcast production moves substantial equipment and personnel to each venue. SSA's proposed model places a smaller production node at the venue and sends camera and audio signals to a centralized remote operations team.

REMI means Remote Integration. It allows production specialists in a central hub to work with venue-side crews across multiple locations. SSA is adapting that operating approach for African sports markets.

Location
Role
Phase
Canada
Remote NOC
Technical validation base for Year 1 REMI operations
Year 1
Kigali
Fiber Anchor
Kigali is being explored as a regional connectivity, operations, and talent-development anchor.
Year 2+
Lagos
Initial Market
Initial market for pilot delivery and commercial validation
Year 1+
Investment Overview

Infrastructure First.
Validation Led.

SSA is developing a phased infrastructure platform intended to help more African sports properties produce and distribute professional live coverage.

Initial Capital Requirement
$600K–$700K
  • Initial broadcast infrastructure and node development
  • Remote-production operations and connectivity validation
  • Pilot event delivery and commercial development
  • Talent-development readiness through APA
Validation Approach
Prove Before Scaling
  • Validate the operating model through pilot delivery
  • Test connectivity, workflows, and partner demand
  • Use operating data to guide additional node deployment
  • Scale only where utilization and partnerships support it

Figures shown are indicative planning targets and are subject to validation through pilots, contracts, operating data, partnerships, and financing.

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Explored Regional Anchor

Kigali For Operations.
Connectivity. Talent.

Kigali is being explored as a future regional operations and talent-development anchor. The concept would connect remote-production operations, partner validation, and APA training readiness in one location. No public claim is made here that a facility, partnership, or operating commitment has been finalized.

Exploration Priorities

Connectivity performance, operating requirements, local partnerships, pilot demand, talent-development pathways, and financing all require validation before implementation.

Planning Milestones

Validate Locally.
Scale Deliberately.

Figures shown are indicative planning targets and are subject to validation through pilots, contracts, operating data, partnerships, and financing.

Year 1 · Initial Validation
Target Nodes
2 initial nodes
Target Live Events
25–35
  • Validate remote-production workflows and connectivity
  • Deliver pilot events and develop commercial partnerships
  • Establish evidence for the next phase of deployment
Year 3 · Target Platform Scale
Target Nodes
8–10
Target Live Events
90–120
  • Expand only where demand and operating evidence support deployment
  • Develop a broader network of infrastructure, distribution, and training partners
The Founder

Built From Production
And Media Experience.

SSA is founder-led and informed by practical experience across sports production, journalism, and documentary storytelling.

Iyiola Adebayo
Founder · Schemes Sports Africa

Iyiola Adebayo is the founder of Schemes Sports Africa. His professional background includes sports-production operations, journalism, and documentary storytelling, which inform SSA's approach to infrastructure, media, and talent development.

Get In Touch

Let's Build
Africa's Game.

Initial capital requirement: $600K–$700K. SSA welcomes inquiries from investors, development-finance institutions, broadcasters, connectivity companies, sports organizations, venues, governments, universities, and training partners.

Email iyiola@schemessports.com
Web schemessports.com
Base Canada · Lagos · Kigali under exploration

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