Hong Kong

Le Sports, which is operated by Chinese internet company LeEco, has agreed a three-season rights deal in Hong Kong for English club football knockout competition the FA Cup.

Chinese internet company LeTV, which operates the Le Sports service, has acquired exclusive rights in Hong Kong for football’s 2018 Fifa World Cup, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper.

Chinese internet company LeTV, which operates the Le Sports service, has agreed a deal to acquire a 20-per-cent stake in media technology company TCL Multimedia and will form a joint venture with Digital Domain Investments to provide live sports virtual reality services.

Chinese internet company LeTV Sports has agreed a five-year media rights partnership with the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) covering China, Hong Kong and Macau.

Chinese internet company LeTV Sports’s acquisition of English Premier League rights in Hong Kong is indicative of the company’s international ambitions.

Hong Kong telecommunications company PCCW and the Le Sports division of Chinese IPTV operator LeTV have said an agreement has been reached that could see English Premier League football rights remain on the former’s pay-television service Now TV.

Football’s English Premier League confirmed today (Tuesday) a rights deal in Hong Kong with Chinese IPTV operator LeTV.

Hong Kong pay-television platform i-Cable has agreed a three-season extension to its long-running rights deal for the Bundesliga, the top division of German football.

Hong Kong telecommunications company PCCW has retained exclusive live rights to LaLiga, the top division of Spanish football.

A Hong Kong investor who was part of telecommunication group PCCW’s bid to acquire a stake in video-sharing website Dailymotion has hit out at the French government’s “cynicism” in ending the deal.

Hong Kong telecommunications group PCCW has secured the rights to the world welterweight title fight between boxing’s pound-for-pound superstars Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao for its pay-television broadcaster Now TV.

Hong Kong commercial broadcaster TVB has acquired exclusive rights in the territory for coverage of the 2015 European Games multi-sport event in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Free-to-air broadcaster ATV will retain its rights to the Hong Kong Premier League, the top division of football in the country, after the Hong Kong Football Association said it had guaranteed it would improve its service.

The Hong Kong Football Association has warned free-to-air broadcaster ATV may lose its rights to the domestic Premier League competition.

The Hong Kong Premier League agreed a deal with free-to-air broadcaster ATV earlier this month, just days before the kick-off of the league’s inaugural season.

Pay-television platform i-Cable paid a significant increase to retain rights amid stiff competition for the Uefa Champions League in Hong Kong.