Asia

Golf’s Asian Tour has launched a new streaming initiative that will result in selected tournaments benefiting from live coverage on its website.

Korean commercial broadcaster SBS has extended its rights agreement with the World Taekwondo Federation.

Chinese internet company LeEco, whose subsidiaries include media platform LeSports, has alleviated its financial concerns by securing 16.8 billion yuan (€2.31bn/$2.42bn) in strategic investment, chiefly from property developer Sunac China Holdings.

The United States Tennis Association has extended its long-term rights deal with Japanese pay-television broadcaster Wowow.

Malaysian pay-television operator Astro has expanded a rights deal with the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) to become the exclusive broadcast partner of the national governing body.

The NBA North American basketball league yesterday (Sunday) streamed a regular-season game via Facebook for the first time, with the game between the Sacramento Kings and the Golden State Warriors available exclusively to users of the social media platform in India.

The I-League, the top division of club football in India, is set to benefit from exposure through an OTT platform after a rights agreement was reached with DittoTV, the digital arm of pay-television operator Zee Entertainment Enterprises.

The LeSports division of Chinese internet company LeEco has reached a compromise agreement over its rights fee for the English Premier League that is set to allow it to continue covering the club football competition.

Media company Sony Pictures Networks India has acquired rights for the Chennai Open, the country’s only men’s ATP World Tour tennis event.

Chinese social network Sina Weibo has struck a deal to stream live coverage of NFL American football games.

Chinese online company Baidu has announced plans to launch an initial public offering for its Iqiyi video-streaming platform.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has introduced new subscription packages in Singapore that it states will seek to disrupt the traditional consumption of premium sport in the country.

Media group Sony Pictures Networks India has signed up as the broadcast partner for the Super Fight League, India’s first mixed martial arts promotion.

The Fox Networks Group division of media company 21st Century Fox has appointed Italo Zanzi as its new executive vice-president and managing director for sport in Asia.

Eleven Sports Network’s deal for Euro 2016 in Singapore also included rights to the 2020 European Championship, plus European Qualifier matches from 2016-17 to 2021-22

The Asian Football Confederation ends nearly two years of speculation and confirms the extension the World Sport Group agency negotiated to its existing deal is dead.