Australia

Singaporean telco Singtel is considering disposing of a significant stake in its Australian business Optus to a Canadian private equity firm, but plans for a full sale have been vehemently denied by the firm.

Australasia's National Rugby League will find itself in its strongest-ever financial position when it comes to negotiate its next domestic media-rights deal, after reporting record revenues topping A$700m (€424m/$458m).

The Melbourne Cup, Australia’s showpiece horse racing event, has a new free-to-air home after commercial broadcaster Nine Entertainment signed off a six-year contract with Victoria Racing Club (VRC) a…

Record UK viewing figures on Sky Sports for Super Bowl LVIII were among strong performing ratings across a variety of the National Football League’s target international markets.

Pay-television broadcaster Foxtel agreed to a slight increase on its fee for Cricket South Africa rights over the next three seasons.

Australian pay-television broadcaster Foxtel has recorded a 14-per-cent drop in earnings, citing increased media rights fees for sports properties as a key driver of the loss

The Australian Professional Leagues (APL), the governing body of the A-League Men and Women competitions, is set to cut as much as 50 per cent of its workforce, with its KeepUp media arm among the casualties,…

Nine Entertainment and Foxtel renewed their England and Wales Cricket Board media rights in Australia from 2024 to 2031 at increased fees after extracting strong value from the ECB’s properties in recent years.

Foxtel has extended its Cricket South Africa (CSA) rights in a multi-year deal from 2024-25 onwards, reinforcing its position as the ‘home of cricket’ in Australian broadcasting.

Online retail giant Amazon “blew the competition out of the park,” to quote one source, in order to secure International Cricket Council rights for the next four years in Australia.

E-commerce giant Amazon has taken a major leap into cricket after securing exclusive media rights in Australia to International Cricket Council events from 2024 to 2027

Streaming platform Fite has acquired exclusive rights in selected markets across Europe and Oceania to Portugal’s Primeira Liga until the end of the 2025-26 season.

India's defeat to Australia in the ICC Cricket World Cup final on home soil drew a record peak concurrency of almost 59 million viewers on Disney Star's OTT platform yesterday (Sunday)

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS renewed its rights to the Fifa Men’s World Cup after agreeing to pay a large uplift on the fee for the previous tournament.

Nine Entertainment and Foxtel have renewed their England and Wales Cricket Board media rights in Australia from 2024 to 2031, SportBusiness understands

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS has renewed its rights to the Fifa Men’s World Cup, securing an exclusive deal for all 104 matches of the 2026 edition.

Two of Australian sport's annual showpiece events drew bumper television audiences over the weekend, but neither the Australian Football League nor the National Rugby League Grand Finals could supplant…

Domestic media rights to the national team matches of Australia's men's Socceroos and women's Matildas will hit the market early next week, as Football Australia eyes a record multi-million dollar broadcast…