Australia

Sports broadcaster ESPN has said it remains committed to the Australian market despite losing the rights to the Uefa Champions League European club football competition.

Golf’s PGA Tour has said its new PGA Tour Live digital over-the-top subscription service will launch tomorrow (Thursday) with the United States, Canada, Ireland, Australia and the UK serving as initial customer markets.

Netball World Cup Sydney 2015 has partnered with the Netball Live mobile app to enhance the national team tournament’s global coverage.

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has enhanced its backing of the FFA Cup by stating it will provide live streaming of all non-broadcast matches from the fledgling domestic club football competition’s Round of 32 onwards in 2015.

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS has extended its long-running association with the Uefa Champions League club football competition by agreeing a sublicensing deal with pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group.

The 35th America’s Cup sailing event has secured broadcasting deals in Australia and Poland.

The beIN Media Group has acquired rights for a number of competitions operated by the European Handball Federation.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports is set to acquire rights in Australia for the W-League domestic women’s football tournament.

Australian commercial broadcaster Ten has agreed a deal with the Cricket Australia governing body to cover the inaugural season of Twenty20 competition the Women’s Big Bash League.

Organisers of the International Champions Cup pre-season football series have agreed a partnership with US media platform Bleacher Report.

Australian commercial broadcasters Seven and Ten, along with US technology giant Google, are all in contention for the free-to-air television rights to the NRL rugby league competition from 2018 following the conclusion of the first round of talks, according to The Daily Telegraph.

The thoroughbred racing clubs of Victoria eschewed an immediately lucrative offer for their rights from Sky Racing in favour of launching a new channel with commercial broadcaster Seven.

The National Basketball League’s new executive director, Larry Kestelman, has said he is “cautiously optimistic” about securing a broadcast rights deal for the Australian club competition as he seeks to revive its fortunes.

A host of Australian and New Zealand news agencies have said they will boycott the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England due to coverage restrictions relating to video match highlights of the national team tournament.

Victoria Racing Club horseracing events are set to return to television screens this week after the organisation formally agreed to a partnership with Australian commercial broadcaster Seven.

Australian telecommunications company Optus and internet company Google have expressed an interest in acquiring premium digital sports rights in the country, according to The Australian newspaper.