Indian Subcontinent

The Board of Control for Cricket in India will launch a new tender for the next cycle of media rights for the Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition on July 17, according to various reports.

North America’s Major League Soccer has sealed rights deals in India, Honduras and New Zealand.

Indian pay-television broadcaster Star Sports has contacted the International Cricket Council to outline its concerns regarding a possible boycott of the forthcoming Champions Trophy national team competition by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

Indian pay-television channel DSport has acquired rights to the 2017 Tie Break Tens tennis event, which takes place in the Spanish city of Madrid tomorrow (Thursday).

Indian pay-television broadcaster Neo Sports has acquired rights to the Brave Combat Federation’s upcoming mixed martial arts event in Mumbai.

The next cycle of media rights for the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament will run for five years, rather than 10 years as originally planned.

This year’s World Snooker Championship will be made available throughout the Americas and the Indian sub-continent via social media platform Facebook.

Major League Baseball has signed a wide-ranging content partnership with Indian digital media company Veqta.

Formula One motor-racing team McLaren-Honda has entered into content partnerships with Amazon Prime, the subscription service operated by e-commerce and media company Amazon, and Indian pay-television broadcaster Star Sports.

Newly-formed Indian esports league UCypher has agreed a rights deal with the Indian arm of youth orientated television channel MTV.

Indian pay-television operator Zee Entertainment Enterprises has today (Tuesday) said the first phase of the sale of its sports business, Ten Sports, to media group Sony Pictures Networks India has been completed.

New Indian pay-television channel DSport is set to compete in the forthcoming tender process for rights to Twenty20 cricket competition the Indian Premier League.

Indian television experts have questioned the viability of pay-television channel DSport – a partnership between Discovery Communications and Indian broadcast executive RC Venkateish which launched in India last week – in its current form.

Direct-to-home service provider DishTV has agreed a carriage deal for DSport, the new Indian sports television channel launched by international media and entertainment company Discovery Communications.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has opened a new tender process for television and digital rights to the Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition, according to multiple reports.

Indian pay-television broadcaster Neo Sports and new sports television channel DSport have acquired rights to the World Touring Car Championship motor-racing series.