Asia

The Asian Football Confederation has signed an exclusive rights deal with South Korean cable-television broadcaster JTBC.

Golf’s PGA Tour has agreed a rights partnership in Japan with digital sports content and media group Perform for its PGA Tour Live service, while it has unveiled a host of new initiatives for its over-the-top subscription offering, including plans to stream content via social media platforms Facebook and Twitter.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has informed current Indian Premier League rights-holder, Sony Pictures Networks India, that it must compete with other parties in a bidding process for the next set of rights to the Twenty20 competition, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.

YuppTV, an over-the-top service that specialises in providing South Asian content to viewers in North America and the Caribbean, has acquired rights for the upcoming Twenty20 cricket series between India and the West Indies.

Digital sports content and media group Perform has today (Tuesday) launched its new OTT sports subscription service, DAZN, in Japan.

Indian pay-television broadcaster Star Sports has acquired live rights for an upcoming international football friendly match between the national teams of India and Puerto Rico.

The Asian Football Confederation has agreed a four-year extension to its rights deal with Thai commercial broadcaster BBTV.

DouyuTV, an online entertainment company that broadcasts live esports events in China, has now raised more than RMB2bn (€265.4m/$300.6m) in funding in 2016 alone following a Series C financing round.

English Premier League football club Manchester City has entered into a partnership with Indian digital media company Veqta.

The China Sports Media agency has secured sublicensing rights deals with the Reuters news agency and the sports video news agency SNTV for coverage of the Chinese Super League football top tier.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has agreed carriage deals in Singapore with pay-television broadcaster StarHub and telecommunications company M1.

Reports that media group Sony Pictures Networks India is set to acquire the Ten Sports operation of Indian pay-television operator Zee have been denied by both parties.

Mixed martial arts promotion the Ultimate Fighting Championship has secured exposure on Japanese terrestrial television through a content partnership with commercial broadcaster Fuji TV.

Virtual reality broadcast technology company NextVR is targeting global expansion after receiving significant funding from a raft of high-profile investors.

Pay-television broadcaster Star India has acquired rights for the upcoming Twenty20 cricket matches in the US between India and the West Indies.

Media group Sony Pictures Networks India is set to acquire the Ten Sports operation of Indian pay-television operator Zee, according to the Economic Times.