Indian Subcontinent

The Delhi High Court in India has ruled that mobile phone companies cannot provide live, running updates of sporting events that are exclusively shown by the Star India broadcast division of media conglomerate…
Cricket

Neo explains why it bid big for New Zealand cricket rights

The Star India broadcast division of media conglomerate News Corporation has announced it will launch a new pay-television sports channel on Monday, March 11, according to the Indian Television website
Cricket

IOC carves out five more Asian markets to handle in-house and further weaken ABU rights; Frustrated Barton blasts ABU
Football

IMG may not be for sale. But the industry is assuming otherwise
Football

Saran brothers sports-rights ambitions expand beyond Turkey; Perform and IMG take different routes to crack Turkish market; Super Lig deal probed

Respected sports media industry figure Sunil Manocha has been appointed as the chief operating officer of the Nimbus Sport division of the Nimbus Communications agency
Cricket

Sri Lanka Cricket, the sport’s governing body in the country, has launched a tender for the worldwide rights to the Sri Lanka national team’s matches.
Cricket

ECB bullish about growth in North America

Cricket

Sri Lankan sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has turned down a request from Sri Lanka Cricket, the sport’s governing body in the country, to extend a worldwide rights deal with Asian pay-television b…
Football

WSG's $1bn rights deal won't be touched by us, say Fifa and AFC
Cricket

The IPL is spawning many copy-cat leagues but rights experts say that they can't all work
Cricket

Pay-television broadcaster Neo Sports has retained rights for the Asia Cup national team cricket tournament
Golf

Indian sports and entertainment pay-television channel Sony Six has acquired domestic rights for the inaugural edition of the Golf Premier League, which will be held next month in Pune, India
Cricket

The Pakistan Cricket Board national governing body has launched a sales process for the rights to its new Twenty20 league, according to the Press Trust of India news agency
Cricket

Sony-owned broadcaster Multi Screen Media will simulcast the 2013 season of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament on its Hindi movie channel Max, along with its sports channel Six
Tennis

Indian subcontinent pay-television broadcaster Taj TV has acquired rights for all top-tier Premier events organised by the Women’s Tennis Association, the top professional tour in women’s tennis, in a f…
Cricket

The recipe is simple: take the world’s most popular sport in a market primed for growth, get in while the sport, the broadcast market or the economy more generally is underdeveloped, invest in long-term p…