India

Cricket

India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED), the country’s top financial watchdog, has issued a show cause notice against the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Indian Premier League, broadcasters and agencies in relation to a media-rights deal agreed in the founding years of the Twenty20 tournament.

Indian subcontinent pay-television broadcaster Taj TV has confirmed an exclusive five-year deal for the rights to motorcycling championship MotoGP in the region.

Cricket

The Novi Digital Entertainment subsidiary of pay-television broadcaster Star India has acquired rights for the next three seasons of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament, from 2015 to 2017.

Cricket

Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan has been permitted to share broadcast signals of the 2015 Cricket World Cup with cable television operators on a temporary basis following a ruling from the country’s Supreme Court today (Tuesday).

Cricket

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has pushed the deadline for a media rights tender to its Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition back by one week to February 10.

Football

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has secured live rights to the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations national team football tournament across multiple south Asian markets.

Cricket

The operators of the Indian Premier League will put digital rights for the Twenty20 cricket tournament on the market next month, according to the Live Mint news website.

Tennis

Indian media group Multi Screen Media has announced that its Liv Sports digital division has acquired mobile and internet rights for the 2015 edition of the Australian Open tennis grand slam tournament.

 

Football

Pay-television broadcaster Star Sports has acquired rights in India for the Bundesliga, the top division of football in Germany.

Cricket

Times Internet, the online and mobile arm of Indian publishing company Times Group, is to create a giant cricket news service after it acquired a majority stake in web and mobile cricket news and information service Cricbuzz.

Cricket

Indian media group Multi Screen Media has announced that its Liv Sports digital division has acquired mobile and internet rights for the 2014-15 edition of South Africa’s domestic T20 Challenge cricket tournament.

Tennis

Indian media group Multi Screen Media has announced that its Liv Sports digital arm has acquired online rights in the country for the new Champions Tennis League.

Tennis

Indian pay-television broadcaster Star Sports has confirmed the acquisition of rights for the inaugural International Premier Tennis League franchise competition.

Football

Indian media group Multi Screen Media has said that its Liv Sports digital arm will exploit the mobile and internet broadcast rights for the qualifying competition to the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament.

Tennis

Pay-television broadcaster the Abu Dhabi Media Company has acquired rights for the International Premier Tennis League, according to the Indian Television news website.

Football

The organisers of the new Indian Super League have said that the inaugural edition of the domestic club football tournament will be available in about 85 per cent of India’s television households.

Minor Sports

The Star India broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has said the inaugural season of the Pro-Kabaddi League has become the second largest Indian sports property behind cricket’s Indian Premier League in terms of broadcast reach.

Asian pay-television broadcaster Star Sports has reached an agreement with Japan Race Promotion for live rights in India to its Super Formula motor racing series.