Asia

Cricket
India

Indian pay-television broadcaster Star is poised to strengthen its grip on cricket broadcasting in the subcontinent by beating incumbent Sony to the rights for Cricket South Africa content.
Multi-sport
Indian Subcontinent

Facebook is in talks to acquire a 10-per-cent stake in Indian mobile telco Reliance Jio, according to the Financial Times
Basketball
China

Chinese digital media company Tencent reported large increases in revenues and profits in 2019, but warned of the impact on its business of the coronavirus epidemic
Malaysia

Winnie Chan discusses the latest Malaysian Football League domestic media and sponsorship rights deals and the challenges the league has faced, and the action it is taking to overcome them.
Football
Malaysia

The value of the Malaysia Football League’s domestic media and sponsorship rights have dropped significantly in the latest deal with Telekom Malaysia after two previous rights rounds of inflated valuations and, ultimately, collapsed deals.
Baseball
South Korea

The emergence of a ‘digital consortium’ to rival the long-standing Korea Pool of free-to-air broadcasters led the Korea Baseball Organisation to record-breaking rights income for its new cycle in the most recently concluded deals. But local industry experts see the digital consortium (DC) deal as a one-off and do not expect it to become a major player in the sports media-rights market.
Motorsport
Japan

The Dentsu agency is in the process of finalising FIA World Rally Championship sublicensing agreements in Japan with terrestrial broadcasters NHK and TV Asahi, SportBusiness understands
Baseball
South Korea

The Korea Baseball Organization has launched a tender for the distribution of its media rights in territories outside Korea, covering the 2020 to 2023 seasons
Football
South Korea

The K-League, Korea's professional football league, has opened a media facility that will be the central hub for the production of its live matches and other content
Multi-sport
Switzerland

Live events accounted for 71 per cent of all video views during the Olympic Channel’s coverage of the recent Winter Youth Olympic Games in the Swiss city of Lausanne, with viewers' average watch time i…
Wrestling
India

Discovery-owned Indian pay-television broadcaster DSport has struck a rights deal with US wrestling promotion Impact
Cricket
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Cricket has launched a new combined invitation to tender for its television, radio and digital rights after determining that separate tenders failed to produce bids of a satisfactory nature
Multi-sport
Asia

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) has agreed a four-year rights deal with international sports broadcaster Eurosport
Cricket
India

New Indian sports application SportsTiger acquired live streaming rights for the 2020 Pakistan Super League cricket tournament
Football
Singapore

Sports data company Genius Sports says a new data partnership with the Football Association of Singapore will underpin a "digital transformation drive" at the sports body
Wrestling
Indian Subcontinent

World Wrestling Entertainment’s media-rights income from the Indian subcontinent has increased about 80 per cent in a deal being finalised with pay-television broadcaster Sony Pictures Networks, SportBusiness Media understands.
Multi-sport
India

Indian online sports media platform FanCode is launching a subscription video product this year, built on content not currently covered by Indian broadcasters.
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
Asia

MMA promotion ONE Championship is producing an Asian edition of the hit television show The Apprentice, featuring its chairman and chief executive Chatri Sityodtong in the lead role as the business leader…