Asia

New Bangladeshi sports broadcaster T Sports has acquired media rights for English Premier League matches and India home international cricket in a deal with video content rights marketplace Allrites

The Chinese Super League is heading for a massive drop in its domestic media-rights income under a series of deals being finalised for the 2021 season onward.

Pro Kabaddi League team owners are unhappy with the result of the tender for global media rights to the league, won by Disney-owned Star India last month, despite more than doubling their income.

World Table Tennis, the commercial arm of the of the International Table Tennis Federation, has signed a broadcast rights deal with Japanese terrestrial and satellite broadcaster TV Tokyo until 2024

Chinese streaming platform Huya has signed an exclusive five-year media rights deal with China’s League of Legends operator Tengjing Sports and will pay a total of CNY2.013bn ($311m/€256.7m)

Pay-per-view streaming platform LIVENow has acquired media rights in Singapore for Uefa Euro 2020 and agreed distribution deals with local telcos Singtel and Starhub

The Team Marketing agency has initiated the sales process in China for broadcast rights to Uefa club competitions from 2021-22 to 2023-24

The International Skating Union has secured a modest fee increase for its global media rights from 2023-24, renewing with incumbent Infront in a deal signed this month.

Chinese streaming platform China Sports, also known as Zhibo.tv, has renewed its deal for rights to the country’s second-tier football division, China League One, for the 2021 season.

Formula E, the electric car racing championship, has agreed a multi-year deal with pay-television broadcaster Star India for rights to the series across the Indian subcontinent

Extreme E, the new electric off-road series, has agreed a rights deal in Japan with pay-TV broadcaster J Sports to show the championship across its linear channels

A peak concurrent streaming audience of 1.1 million watched the One Esports Dota 2 Singapore Major final earlier this month

Pay-television broadcaster Sony Pictures Networks has secured exclusive linear and digital rights for the Indian subcontinent to this year's Copa América.

Team Marketing has initiated the broadcast rights sales process for the Uefa club competitions from 2021-22 to 2023-24 in Canada and an array of countries and territories in Southeast Asia

Mashal Sports, the sports management company owned by pay-television broadcaster Star India, has countered claims that its auction for broadcast rights to the Pro Kabaddi League was flawed

Pay-television broadcaster Star India has won the rights to show the Pro Kabaddi League for the next five seasons despite conflict of interest concerns from some of the competing teams

Chinese football-focused digital platform Dongqiudi has acquired non-exclusive live streaming rights for the Chinese Super League in a three-season deal starting with the upcoming 2021 season

Indonesian state-owned broadcaster TVRI has signed a deal with electric motor racing series Formula E to show the remaining races of the 2020-21 World Championship