China

Football

Scottish football chooses online route into China

Basketball

Chinese internet operator Sina, owner of the Weibo microblogging service, has expanded its partnership with North American basketball league the NBA to include live video content on the social network and the company’s mobile platform.

Football

Chinese online television service provider PPTV has agreed a one-year broadcast rights deal with the Scottish Professional Football League.

Basketball

Chinese internet operator Sina, owner of the Weibo microblogging service, has agreed a deal with the NBA to stream one game per day from the North American basketball league, according to Bloomberg.

CCTV’s new national sports channel will not mean pay-day for rights-holders

Multi-sport

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV launched a second dedicated sports channel on Sunday, according to the Xinhua news agency.

Basketball

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has agreed a new deal with the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) to broadcast live coverage of its showpiece competitions.

Football

Chinese IPTV provider BesTV has acquired exclusive rights for English Premier League football on “new media television” in a deal with Super Sports Media Group, according to the China Daily newspaper.

Basketball

Fiba, Euroleague and other basketball rights-holders pool rights for B2C web offering

Basketball

The Global Sports Media Consumption Report 2013 shows that second-screen activity is growing, but is it a threat or an opportunity for the sports broadcasting industry?

Tennis

Chinese state-owned broadcaster CCTV5 has acquired live rights for the Wimbledon tennis championships
Football

World Cup rights fee falls in Nigeria but increases in sub-Saharan Africa as Fifa keeps faith with AUB and Octagon

Cycling

ASO, IMG and Infront all have big cycling ambitions. That could be bad news for UK's SweetSpot

Football

The English Football Association, the sport’s national governing body, has said that there are plans to stream live coverage of selected football matches via a new Mandarin-language version of the TheFA.c

Beijing's former mayor Liu Jingmin has called for an end to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV’s “monopoly” control over nationwide sports coverage. “A

F1 ratings flop costly for CCTV
Football

The Chinese Football Association, the sport’s governing body in China, has appointed digital media company VisionChina to deliver live coverage of the country’s Super League top tier on mobile platforms. T
Cricket

IOC carves out five more Asian markets to handle in-house and further weaken ABU rights; Frustrated Barton blasts ABU