Australia

The International Olympic Committee has confirmed that commercial broadcaster Seven has acquired media rights in Australia for the next three editions of the Olympic Games.

The IMG agency has struck a 10-year deal, from 2015 to 2024, to develop North American stock car-racing series Nascar’s international media business.

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS is investigating claims that its exclusive rights to the Tour de France are being undermined by British coverage of the cycling showpiece being live-streamed into Australia.

The ABC International division of Australian public-service broadcaster ABC will increase the number of Australian Football League Aussie rules matches shown overseas from five to six matches per week for the remainder of the 2014 season.

Australian Rugby Union chief executive Bill Pulver hopes the negotiation process for the organisation’s next round of broadcast rights can bring about a significant uplift in revenue.

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven is paying a high price in its deal for the Olympic Games of 2016, 2018 and 2020, local media-rights experts say, but the broadcaster will view the deal as a good investment for a number of reasons.

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven has agreed a deal for the rights to the next three editions of the Olympic Games, according to multiple reports.

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has acquired rights for the upcoming England v India cricket series.

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven has acquired rights for the 2015 Bathurst 12 Hour motorsport endurance event.

Australia’s Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has warned media platforms that no changes will be made to television sports rights restrictions without a consensus between free-to-air and pay television operators.

American football’s NFL has agreed rights deals with pay-television broadcaster ESPN across Australia and New Zealand and commercial broadcaster Seven in Australia.

Australian public-service broadcaster the ABC has agreed a deal with the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) for the rights to the 2014 World Cup and World Championship for Women.

Pay-television broadcaster Ten Sports, which operates in the Indian subcontinent, has acquired rights to Australia’s A-League and FFA Cup club football competitions for the next three seasons.

Commercial broadcaster Seven is the only Australian broadcaster to have lodged an expression of interest in acquiring a package of rights covering the next three editions of the Olympic Games, according to the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.

Australian commercial broadcaster Ten and pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports have agreed two-year extensions to their rights deals for the MotoGP motorcycling championship.

Ten chief executive Hamish McLennan has said the commercial broadcaster is keen to regain rights to the Australian Football League, the top division of Aussie rules in Australia.