Asia

Cricket

The International Cricket Council has reported on a number of broadcast and digital records for the 2016 World Twenty20 national team tournament, the first major event produced by its ICC TV division.

Sport Climbing

Japanese public-service broadcaster NHK has acquired rights for the International Federation of Sport Climbing’s (IFSC) 2016 season.

Mixed Martial Arts

Filipino media company ABS-CBN has acquired rights for the One Championship mixed martial arts series.

Multi-sport

Pay-television broadcaster Star India has formed a dedicated sports division as part of a major organisational overhaul.

Football

The Vietnam Pay Television Association (VNPayTV) has maintained it will not go beyond a 20 per cent increase in the fee for the next set of broadcast rights in the country to football’s English Premier League.

Football

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has acquired live and exclusive rights in Singapore to the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament.

Golf

Golf’s US PGA Tour has doubled its rights fee in the Indian subcontinent after a six-year renewal with Indian pay-television broadcaster Neo Sports.
Cricket

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN), formerly known as Multi Screen Media, will bid to retain rights for the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition when the Board of Control for Cricket in India auctions the rights for 2018 and beyond.

Football

Le Sports, which is operated by Chinese internet company LeEco, has launched a subscription service for its media platform in mainland China, following a similar initiative in Hong Kong.

Table Tennis

Chinese sports marketing company Seca has secured exclusive mobile and internet rights in the country to a number of International Table Tennis Federation events after agreeing a partnership with the sport’s global governing body.

Australian Rules Football

Australian Football League club Port Adelaide has struck a rights deal with Chinese state-owned broadcaster CCTV.

Rugby Union

Singaporean pay-television broadcaster StarHub has agreed a rights deal for the World Rugby Sevens Series.

Le Sports, which is operated by Chinese internet company LeEco, has been valued at Rmb21.5bn (€2.96bn/$3.3bn) following its latest influx of funding, the company has said.

Football

Chinese sports marketing company Shankai Sports is expected to make a substantial profit on the streaming rights to Uefa properties it acquired last year.

Rugby

New media player Coliseum has developed into a pan-Asian service and will wind down operations in its home market of New Zealand.

Football

Emerging competition in Japan’s digital sector helped the MP & Silva agency earn significant profit on its deals for England’s Premier League and Spain’s LaLiga.

Interview with Coliseum founder Tim Martin, on the launch of the pan-Asian Rugby Pass OTT service, and the company’s scaling back in New Zealand.

Basketball

Indian pay-television broadcaster Ten Sports has agreed a rights deal with the country’s Professional Basketball League top-tier club competition.