Indian Subcontinent

Cricket

Ditto TV, part of Indian media group Zee Entertainment Enterprises, has acquired the international streaming rights to the One-Day International cricket series between the West Indies, India and Sri Lanka.

Cricket

Reliance Communications has agreed a partnership with pan-Asian pay-television broadcaster Star Sports to offer live mobile streaming coverage in India of the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy.

Cricket

Indian direct-to-home operator Sun Direct is to offer its sports subscription packages at a lower price to coincide with the ICC Champions Trophy one day international cricket series.

Football

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has secured the exclusive broadcasting rights to the European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup football tournaments across the Indian subcontinent.

Indian pay-television operators Tata Sky and Sun Direct have agreed carriage deals for the new Star Sports 2 pay-television channel.

Cricket

Sports media company Seven3Sports has signed a sub-licencing deal with Indian Premier League rights-holder, Sony-owned Indian broadcaster Multi Screen Media, for the rights to the competition in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Cricket

Dialog Axiata has sealed a three-year deal with Sri Lanka Cricket, representing the country’s biggest sponsorship deal, according to the Daily Financial Times newspaper.

ESPN Star Sports signs multi-year agreement with Bharti Airtel, Airtel Digital TVto distribute its six primary channel in India. 

Football

Sony Six has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights to Uefa Euro 2016 across the Indian subcontinent.

Cricket

The Indian government is planning to pass legislation that will enforce a heavy penalty for match-fixing, following the Indian Premier League (IPL)’s recent spot-fixing cricket scandal.

Basketball

Basketball’s Euroleague will have to sell airtime around TVE’s coverage of Real Madrid if it wants to match its old rights fees

Sanjay Gupta, the chief operating officer of the Star India broadcast division of media conglomerate News Corporation, has criticised the Indian government for supporting regulations imposed by the country’s t…

World Archery has appointed the Broadreach Media agency to distribute rights in India and the Indian subcontinent for the governing body’s World Cup and World Championship events.
Cricket

Times Internet, the online and mobile arm of the Times Group publishing company in India, has extended its live streaming rights deal with video-sharing website YouTube for the 2013 and 2014 seasons of…
Cricket

Times Internet, the online and mobile arm of Indian publishing company Times Group, has sublicensed mobile rights for the 2013 season of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament to Indian…
Martial Arts

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has acquired exclusive domestic rights for Glory World Series kickboxing events, according to the Indian Television news website
Cricket

Nimbus Communications and Neo Prime, a pay-television channel operated by the agency’s Neo Sports Broadcast division, have lodged separate bids for the worldwide rights to Sri Lanka national cricket t…

Indian subcontinent pay-television broadcaster Taj TV has acquired rights for the 2014 Commonwealth Games