Indian Subcontinent

Pay-television broadcaster Ten Sports, which operates in the Indian subcontinent, has acquired rights to Australia’s A-League and FFA Cup club football competitions for the next three seasons.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has issued a tender for its worldwide media rights across a six-year period spanning May 1, 2014 to April 30, 2020.

Times Internet, the online and mobile arm of Indian publishing company Times Group, has sublicensed live mobile streaming rights for the 2014 season of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament to Indian media company NexGTv.

The ICC’s ambitious income target for its next cycle of media rights sales

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has acquired exclusive rights to the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.

The Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific division of US media and entertainment company Discovery Communications has agreed a content partnership with the Red Bull Media House media company.

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has acquired the exclusive rights to the 2014 India Open badminton tournament.

Sri Lanka cricket drops in value

Neo Sports Broadcast, a division of the Nimbus Communications agency, has elected to take the distribution of its Neo Sports and Neo Prime pay-television channels in-house.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) and media partner the Infront Sports & Media agency have announced that the 2014 Track World Championships will be broadcast live to more than 100 territories around the world, including for the first time in India and Malaysia.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has snatched the rights to cricket’s Indian Premier League, TV Sports Markets understands, beating off competition from rival pay-television operator BT and commercial broadcaster ITV, the UK rights-holder for the last four seasons.

In the increasingly competitive Indian pay-television market, Sony Six has begun 2014 on the front foot, snapping up prestigious properties in cricket, football, tennis and rugby...

Australian Open enjoys boom in media-rights value in two new Asian deals

Interview with Prasana Krishnan, head of business at Sony Six, on the broadcaster’s acquisition of the rights to the 2014 and 2018 Fifa World Cups

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has acquired exclusive media rights for the Six Nations international rugby union tournament.

The MP & Silva agency has acquired the global broadcast rights to the new International Premier Tennis League tournament, according to organisers of the event.