New Zealand

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has acquired rights in the country to this year’s inaugural edition of the European Games multi-sport event.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Sport has sealed a rights deal in New Zealand for events operated by Fifa, football’s global governing body.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired rights in New Zealand for the Netball World Cup national team tournament.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand is to increase the price of its sports package due to increases in rights fees for sports events and properties.

World football’s governing body Fifa has agreed a deal with pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand for the broadcast rights to its 2015 Under-20 World Cup, which is being hosted in the country.

The International Cricket Council will make television umpire communication during the knockout stages of the ongoing World Cup national team tournament available to host broadcaster, pay-television broadcaster Star Sports.

The Professional Squash Association has finalised terms for new broadcast rights deals in New Zealand and Australia.

The Professional Squash Association has agreed new rights deals for its World Tour with pay-television broadcasters Fox Sports and Sky in Australia and New Zealand, respectively.

Sports content company Aurora Media Worldwide will produce a bespoke package of programmes for the 2015 Cricket World Cup under an agreement with the International Cricket Council.

Rugby league’s Super League, which comprises clubs from England and France, has agreed new broadcast deals in Australia, New Zealand, France, North America and the Middle East.

Sky New Zealand has launched a new service that will allow customers to watch premium sports rights online without signing up to its broadcast pay-television offering.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has secured broadcast rights for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

The Sporty Solutionz agency has agreed a three-year deal with New Zealand Cricket to sublicense the media rights of its national team in a host of markets across the Indian subcontinent.

New Zealand’s digital free-to-air channel Sommet Sports has said it is exploring a crowd funding initiative as a means to resurrect the platform following its collapse last month.

Online television service Lightbox has linked up with digital sports broadcaster Coliseum Sports Media to establish a new joint venture in New Zealand called Lightbox Sport.