Imran Yusuf

The Vietcontent agency has acquired rights to Uefa club competitions in Vietnam from 2024-25 to 2026-27, SportBusiness understands.

Inside this issue, we take a close look at the renegotiated NFL-Genius betting rights deal, the KBO League's strong domestic rights increase, TNT Sports' deal for BCCI rights in the UK, and plenty more besides.

Media group Disney has started arbitration proceedings against Zee Entertainment regarding its sublicensing deal for International Cricket Council (ICC) rights from 2024 to 2027

Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, chaired and run by business mogul Mukesh Ambani, will buy out Paramount Global’s 13-per-cent stake in media group Viacom18 for $517m (€472m).

The Korean Baseball Organisation will receive a 30-per-cent increase in domestic rights fees for its top-tier league after media group CJ ENM secured exclusive streaming rights at a strong uplift.

Kiran Mani, who currently runs media group Viacom18’s OTT platform JioCinema and spent 13 years at Google, will head the company’s digital and sports divisions, according to Indian news website Mint.

Pay-television broadcaster TNT Sports secured rights in the UK and Ireland to all India home matches from January 2024 to March 2028 after facing minimal competition for the rights.

Media group CJ ENM has secured exclusive streaming rights to the top-tier league of the Korean Baseball Organisation from 2024 to 2026, marking the first time the property has gone behind a streaming paywall in South Korea.

The Marketing & Media Solutions agency and PC Plus Group have secured media rights in sub-Saharan Africa for all World Athletics Series events from 2024 to 2029 in a deal with Eurovision Sport.

Inside this issue, we analyse how Uefa and Fifa benefitted in particular from New World TV’s entry to the sub-Saharan African market to enjoy strong uplifts for club competition and World Cup rights, respectively. There's also a look at the proposed merger between France’s Canal Plus and South Africa’s MultiChoice, plus why the Peruvian Football Federation and its media rights partner, 1190 Sports, have emphasised the need for patience after the cost of the latter’s long-term media rights project were laid bare for all top-flight Liga 1 clubs to see. There's plenty more besides.