Australia

Australian Rules Football

The Australian Football League has announced new agreements with domestic broadcasters Foxtel and Telstra which will extend their rights by two years across the 2023 and 2024 seasons
Cricket

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven West Media and Cricket Australia will face off in court on March 15 next year as part of their ongoing dispute over the value of a media rights deal
Motorsport

Independent production company AVE is though to have secured the contract to produce free-to-air broadcaster Seven’s coverage of domestic motor racing promoted by the Australian Racing Group.
Basketball

Australia’s National Basketball League has entered into a ‘multi-year’ agreement with sports data and content supplier Sportradar commencing in the middle of January 2021. U
Cricket

Cricket South Africa has agreed a four-year media rights deal in Australia with pay-television broadcaster Foxtel, running until the end of the 2023-24 southern hemisphere cricket season
Cricket

Australian broadcaster Seven West Media has filed court papers seeking access to correspondence between Cricket Australia, the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Foxtel and other parties as part of…
Horse Racing

British racecourse alliance Racecourse Media Group and Irish racecourse rights owner Sports Information Services have agreed a streaming, marketing content and betting deal with Australian online betting…
Baseball

Australian pay-television operator Foxtel and its Kayo Sports OTT streaming platform have acquired rights to the 2020-21 edition of the Australian Baseball League
Surfing

The World Surf League has renewed its broadcast agreement with Australian free-to-air commercial broadcaster Seven through 2021
Rugby Union

Australian commercial broadcaster Nine Entertainment has recruited Murray Shaw, an experienced sports production executive in Australia, as its head of rugby
Australian Rules Football

Pay-television operator Foxtel has initiated early talks to extend its rights deal with Australian rules football league the AFL, it has been reported
Cricket

Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine has acquired rights to the 2023 Ashes cricket series, which will take place in England
Tennis

Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine and its new subscription streaming service Stan Sport have secured three-year deals to broadcast the Wimbledon and French Open Grand Slam tennis tournaments from…
Rugby Union

Australian broadcaster Nine Entertainment is launching a premium sports streaming service, Stan Sports, following its acquisition of Rugby Australia domestic media rights
Cricket

Cricket Australia has announced a new deal with streaming platform LIVENow to broadcast live coverage from all international matches on India’s tour of Australia as well as the KFC Big Bash League and s…
Tennis

Former Tennis Australia director Harold Mitchell has been fined A$90,000 (€54,721/$63,903), but cleared to continue acting as a company director, in a Federal Court ruling on his role in a contentious b…
Basketball

Basketball Australia’s new agreement with domestic broadcasters Foxtel, the pay-television operator, and ABC, the public broadcaster, will see all 60 games of the 2020 Chemist Warehouse WNBL season shown l…
Horse Racing

Next week’s Melbourne Cup horse racing event will be aired in over 120 territories around the world, with first-time broadcasters to include Eurosport India and SuperSport, the sub-Saharan African pay-television o…