Japan

Kickboxing

Professional martial arts organisation and television content provider Glory Sports International has acquired the rights to the “significant majority” of programming from the K-1 kickboxing series.

Football

Interview with Simon Greenberg, global head of rights for News Corp, on the company’s Asian clip rights strategy.

Football

News Corp says it will succeed with sports clips where other media companies s have failed

The rights acquisitions behind News Corp’s BallBall app 

Football

As Brazil delivers increased audiences for the Fifa Confederations Cup in Europe’s big five markets, Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, runs the numbers T
Football

Media conglomerate News Corporation has acquired exclusive mobile and internet clip rights in Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia for the top football divisions in England, Germany, Italy and France, plus several other club football competitions.

Golf

Japanese website Golf Digest Online has agreed a three-year deal with the Asian Tour that will provide video highlights from the sanctioning body’s events.

Football

Silva finds radical solution to impasse in Indonesian market
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

League gets out of tight corner in Middle East with MP & Silva deal
Cycling

Japanese public-service broadcaster NHK has agreed a two-year extension to its broadcast rights deal with cycling’s global governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale.
Football

Digital video company Base79, which operates more than 600 channels on video-sharing website YouTube, has struck a deal with the Fédération Française de Football, the French football federation.
Football

Video-sharing website Dailymotion has acquired rights for the France v Germany national football team friendly match tomorrow (Wednesday) evening
Volleyball

The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball, the sport’s world governing body, has extended its exclusive domestic rights deal with Japanese commercial broadcaster Fuji TV.
Athletics

Latest ARD/ZDF athletics deal confirms market correction

American Football

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews the most-watched events of 2012 across 10 of the world’s biggest media markets W
Baseball

Former BSkyB boss Dovey behind Fox plans to revolutionise baseball coverage in Japan

Skiing

Finnish deal takes Infront closer to global control of skiing rights but agency denies that it paid a strategic fee for the rights