Asia

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has sealed a sublicensing rights deal with pay-television operator Singtel to show live coverage of football’s English Premier League in Singapore.

Mike Kerr, the former chief executive of golf’s Asian Tour, has joined beIN Media Group and will serve as the company’s managing director in Asia.

The Baofeng Sports International division of Chinese internet entertainment and technology provider Baofeng has acquired rights to the Chinese Super League club football competition and has also struck a partnership with the Chinese Basketball Association.

German newspaper publisher Bild and Mi TV, the internet television arm of Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi Corp, have acquired rights for the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament, which gets underway on Friday.

Sony Pictures Networks has been given a 60-day window to submit an offer to retain rights to the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition, according to the Times of India newspaper.

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights in a host of Asian markets to the 2017 Six Nations rugby union tournament.

Ten Sports chief executive Rajesh Sethi has revealed that the Indian pay-television broadcaster has plans to launch more channels.

Pay-television broadcaster Star India has secured a long-term rights deal for the French Open tennis tournament.

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN and Sony Pictures Network India (SPN), formerly known as Multi Screen Media, have launched a new mobile-first, multi-sport digital offering in India.

India’s Supreme Court has ruled that broadcasters of major sports events in the country must remove all advertising before supplying feeds to public-service broadcaster Doordarshan.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has acquired rights in Singapore for the 2016 Aya Bank Cup and Nations Cup national team football tournaments.
 

Sony Pictures Networks India, formerly known as Multi Screen Media, has acquired exclusive rights in India for Premier Futsal, a new multi-national futsal league, ahead of its inaugural season.

The International Basketball Federation’s (Fiba) deal with Chinese digital company Tencent is thought to be its largest ever on a per-annum basis.

Thai digital-terrestrial broadcaster PPTV has boosted its sports portfolio by sublicensing a slate of football rights from beIN Media Group.

The MP & Silva agency has recouped about 60 per cent of its investment in English Premier League rights in Vietnam from a deal with pay-television broadcaster K Plus.

Fox Networks Group significantly increased the value of US Open rights across Asia as the syndicator’s regional broadcast arm sought to complete its coverage of the tennis grand slams.