Malaysia
World Cup fees tripling as Asia boom continues
I-Cable pays out to keep crucial content as battle with PCCW continues
ESS revenue hit as cable exploits rights victories
Pan-Asian broadcaster in tough talks over continued distribution of its channels in Thailand, following loss of English Premier League football rights to UBC
Premier League set to better last overseas TV rights coup
The English Premier League looks set to boost the sale of its international rights in Asia.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, Cricket and Field Hockey deals
Football: Italian pay-television operator Sky Italia acquired the pay-television rights to all 64 matches of the 2006 World Cup, 39 of which it will show exclusively, in a deal with the Infront agency. Sky is paying an estimated €40m (£27.3m) for the rights. The deal also includes the rights to this year’s Fifa Confederations Cup, the Fifa World Youth Championships and the 16 26-minute preview programmes produced by Infront (page 1).
Malaysia pays record new-media fee
Malaysian agency M-League Marketing is understood to have agreed a deal worth about $13 million (£6.7 million/€9.8 million) for English Premier League football’s mobile and internet clips package. Th
Premier League on a roll again with new media
English football’s Premier League is set to triple its international new-media rights fees, replicating the success it had when selling its main live rights around the world late last year.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Horseracing, cycling, swimming and more
Horseracing: Australian free-to-air broadcaster Nine Network acquired live rights to 13 premier race meetings in 2007 from the Australian Racing Board, which brokered the deal through TVN, owners of …
Now Serie A enjoys the Hong Kong rights boom
Competition between PCCW and i-Cable results in near-tripling of rights fees