Australia
Eurosport pays big to save grand slams but plays it cool with WTA
Eurosport hangs on to French and US Opens - but at a price
Australian leagues lobby government to change copyright act
The Coalition of Major Participant and Professional Sports, a group representing the interests of Australia’s leading sports, met Australian government ministers on Monday as it stepped up its campaign t…
Big rights fee boost expected for Australian V8 motor-racing series
The domestic rights for the Australian V8 Supercars motor-racing series are attracting interest from all major free-to-air broadcasters and pay-television, and the rights fees could more than double to…
AFL vows to fight Optus judgment
Andrew Demetriou, chief executive of the Australian Football League, the country’s top Australian rules league, vowed to fight a Federal Court judgment that telco Optus did not breach copyright laws b…
Optus judgment a blow for Telstra
The Australian Federal Court found that Australian telco Optus did not breach copyright laws by allowing subscribers of its TV Now service to access sports games that were originally broadcast on free-to-air…
Australia hopes to cash in on digital-savvy fans
Australian football federation outlines future rights strategy
Nine under fire for Tour Down Under coverage
Australian commercial broadcaster Channel Nine defended its coverage of the Tour Down Under cycle race after more than 1,600 fans signed an online petition to call for the domestic rights for the road…
Nine chief worried by lost cricket advertising time
Channel Nine chief executive David Gyngell said that the Australian commercial broadcaster’s advertising sales could suffer due to fewer days of play than expected in the Test cricket series currently u…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: NFL, MLB, NBA, Australian cricket, women’s golf and more
American Football: US networks CBS, Fox and NBC acquired rights for the NFL in nine-year deals, from 2014-15 to 2022-23, worth a combined $3.1bn (€2.4bn) per year.
ESS gets more content as rights fee remains flat
ESS gets more Australia cricket for its dollar in five-year deal
Uefa opts for cash over eyeballs
Uefa doubles its money in France but audiences will fall
EBU well placed to tighten its grip on Fifa World Cup rights
Fifa maintains free-to-air commitments for 2018-2022; Five markets, but no rights, carved out of European tender
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: American football, athletics, hockey, handball and more
American Football: The NFL Network, the pay-television broadcaster owned by the NFL, agreed a content deal with Outcast, operators of a petrol station digital TV network with 12,000 screens in stations…
Nine’s Crawley wants to see best at Big Bash
Nine Network’s director of sport, Steve Crawley, said that the Big Bash, the Australian Twenty20 cricket franchise league, would need to involve the world’s best players in order to reach its potential on …
India series topping Ashes audiences for Australia’s Nine
Australian commercial broadcaster Nine Network’s average audience for the opening two Test matches of the current Australia v India series was 30 per cent higher than the average for the last Australia v…
ASO to distribute Tour Down Under rights
Sports marketing company the Amaury Sport Organisation was appointed to handle global broadcast distribution for the Tour Down Under cycling race in Adelaide, Australia
ABC still in talks with SANFL
Justin Holdforth, the head of sport at Australian public-service broadcaster the ABC, said that talks were ongoing over a new broadcast deal for the Australian rules football South Australian National…