Asia

Multi-sport

China's General Administration of Sport and its State Administration of Radio and Television signed an agreement in Beijing yesterday to jointly create a platform for events, programmes and content covering…
Esports

Chinese live-streaming platform Huya has acquired rights for the League of Legends esports organisation’s North American Championship Series and European Championship.
Multi-sport

India and China were the only Asia-Pacific pay-television markets to show strong revenue and subscriber growth in 2019, and there were significant subscriber declines in several territories, according…
Football

Digital sports content platform FanCode has agreed a multi-year rights deal to Indian club football competition the I-League
Esports

Games publisher Riot Games and agency Redd+E have agreed a deal to distribute media rights for the inaugural 2020 Pacific Championship Series in Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
Multi-sport

An Indian court has called on the government to intervene after today (Monday) opting to dispose of a public interest litigation lodged with regards to the freedom of public-service broadcaster Doordarshan…
Multi-sport

Indian television broadcasters have united to criticise new price caps on pay-television channels introduced by the country's media regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
Multi-sport

Indian sports media company Lex Sportel Vision is challenging in court its former partner Discovery's move last week to take full control of sports pay-television channel DSport
Football

The DDMC Fortis agency is close to agreeing a media rights deal for Asian Football Confederation properties for the 2021-24 cycle in South Korea, one of the most valuable territories for the content
Multi-sport

Indian media group Sony Pictures Networks has appointed Manish Aggarwal as its new head of growth, monetization and digital business at its OTT video on-demand service SonyLIV
Cricket

Digital sports content platform FanCode acquired exclusive rights in India to live stream the West Indies v Ireland cricket series currently underway
Multi-sport

The Indian division of international media company Discovery has promoted Vijay Rajput to head its pay-television broadcaster, DSport
Multi-sport

The chief sports media-rights buyer for the Asian Fox Sports pay-television channels, Craig Dobbs, in December became the latest in a series of senior departures from the business
Football

Korea’s K-League and the Korean Football Association have pooled their media rights, but an initial tender attracted no firm bids, forcing the rights-holders to extend the deadline and change the tender’s terms to allow consortia to participate.
Table Tennis

The International Table Tennis Federation is close to announcing a Chinese investor as its long-term partner as part of a wider commercial overhaul, SportBusiness understands.
Football

The Reddentes Sports agency has sublicensed from Malaysian pay-television broadcaster Astro the media rights outside Malaysia for the 2019 Sepak Takraw League Champions Cup and the inaugural 2020 Asia…
Football

The Qatar-based pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has renewed and expanded its rights deal for club football competition the Florida Cup
Football

Sports marketing companies and private equity houses bidding to become the vehicle for the delivery of Fifa’s new China-hosted club competition in 2021 will face the same challenge: the competition is only likely to be successful if a Chinese company is involved.