Australia

Football Federation Australia, the sport’s national governing body, has launched a tender process for its next broadcast rights deal and is reportedly targeting a doubling in its value with more free-to-air coverage.

Football Federation Australia, the sport’s national governing body, has agreed a deal for commercial broadcaster Seven to show coverage of the country’s national women’s team on free-to-air television for the first time.

Australia’s National Rugby League has said its clubs will now be able to live stream pre-season games.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN International has renewed a distribution rights deal in Latin America and the Caribbean for the Australian Open tennis grand slam tournament.

The Tennis Australia national governing body has held talks with domestic commercial broadcasters Seven and Nine over the potential staging of a new ‘Fast 4’ team tournament in Sydney.

Australian commercial broadcaster Ten has stepped up its coverage of the inaugural season of Twenty20 cricket competition the Women’s Big Bash League, as Cricket Australia targets a standalone rights deal for future editions of the tournament.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has retained rights in Australia for Test matches and tournaments operated by Sanzar, rugby union’s governing body in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

The Australian Rugby Union is poised to confirm a new five-year rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports and commercial broadcaster Ten, according to multiple reports.

Sky Racing World, a US-based distributor of international horse racing to the Americas, has entered into a partnership with Spanish multinational gaming group Codere to provide live video streams of Australian racing in Brazil.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC will no longer offer live coverage of tennis grand slam the Australian Open.

Australia’s National Rugby League this week said its unprecedented decision to strike a deal for free-to-air rights ahead of negotiating pay-television rights had contributed to its record total media-rights income.

Australian commercial broadcaster Ten has hailed the successful introduction of day-night Test cricket, but has maintained that the country’s showpiece Melbourne and Sydney Test matches should retain their traditional daytime scheduling.

Rights for the National Rugby League, the top division of rugby league in Australia, have been acquired in the country by pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports and the Telstra telecommunications company.

The National Rugby League, operators of the sport’s top competition in Australia, is set to unveil a new rights agreement with pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports, according to multiple reports today (Thursday).

Basketball Australia chief executive Anthony Moore has said the governing body is close to signing a multi-year broadcast deal for the Women’s National Basketball League with a free-to-air partner.

John Manning, research anaylst for SportBusiness Intelligence examines Rugby World Cup television audiences in the major rugby union markets.