SportBusiness Media staff

The Kentaro agency has acquired the global media rights for English Premier League football club Manchester United’s forthcoming summer tour of Asia and Oceania.

The Total Sports Asia agency has agreed a three-year deal to distribute the television rights for the TNA Impact Wrestling organisation across South East Asia, with the exception of the Thai market.

Australian commercial broadcaster Nine Network has opted to show full coverage of the forthcoming Ashes Test cricket series between England and Australia on its free-to-air digital television multi-channel GEM.

Fifa and Uefa, the governing bodies of world and European football, should share their rising television revenues with players’ unions to aid footballers whose clubs encounter financial difficulties, according to a senior official from global players’ union FIFPro.

MDR, the public-service broadcaster for the German states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, has criticised national public-service broadcaster ARD’s level of spending on football rights, according to the Digital Fernsehen website.

Chinese IPTV provider BesTV has acquired exclusive rights for English Premier League football on “new media television” in a deal with Super Sports Media Group, according to the China Daily newspaper.

Fisu, the governing body of international university sport, has awarded media rights to the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union for the 2013 editions of the Summer Universiade and Winter Universiade multi-sport events.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox is seeking to expand its current rights deal with the Nascar motor-racing series.

Danish pay-television broadcaster TV3 has agreed a digital sports rights partnership with the Ekstra Bladet newspaper, according to the Mediawatch.dk website.

Indian telecommunications group DigiVive has secured mobile streaming rights for the ongoing one-day international cricket tri-series featuring India, Sri Lanka and hosts West Indies.