New Zealand
Oceania Football Confederation explores launch of television channel
The Oceania Football Confederation, football’s governing body in Oceania, is in talks with New Zealand free-to-air television service Freeview about launching its own sports channel.
Sport1 agrees deal for Women’s Tennis Association rights
Dutch pay-television channel Sport1 has acquired rights for the Women’s Tennis Association’s Premier Tournaments in a four-year deal, from 2013 to 2016, with the IEC in Sports agency.
Champions League and Europa League deals agreed in Oceania
Uefa, European football’s governing body, has agreed deals in Oceania with commercial broadcaster SBS and pay-television broadcaster Setanta, for the Champions League and Europa League from 2012-13 to 2…
Sky New Zealand agrees late deal for Nations Cup
Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has acquired rights for the New Zealand national team’s remaining matches in the ongoing Oceania Football Confederation Nations Cup.
Oceania says Sky bid for Nations Cup came too late
The Oceania Football Confederation, football’s governing body in the region, has said that a bid from pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand to acquire rights for the upcoming Nations Cup national t…
TVNZ in talks to acquire Wimbledon television rights
A spokesperson for TVNZ said the New Zealand public-service broadcaster was in talks about acquiring rights for this year’s Wimbledon tennis championships amid increasing speculation that the 2012 edition m…
Unchallenged Sky pays increase for ICC rights
ESS bucks the trend and gets increase from Sky
US Open serves up increases in Asia to match Euro deal
IMG Media helps US Open land 50 per cent increase in Asian rights
Pitch buys worldwide rights for New Zealand Cricket
The Pitch International agency agreed an eight-year deal with New Zealand Cricket to distribute the international media rights to the home matches of the New Zealand national team from 2012-13 to 2019-20
World Cup set to boost ESS rights sales in Australia
World Cup should boost ESS ICC revenues in Australia; Sony, Zee and ESS in battle for BCCI's retendered world rights
Sky New Zealand extends National Rugby League deal
New Zealand pay-television operator Sky agreed a one-year extension to its existing rights deal with Australia’s National Rugby League, to cover the upcoming 2012 season.
Octagon treads softly in Africa
IOC adopts revenue-share model in Africa after Fifa 2010 World Cup experiment
Vietnamese cartel frustrates Sportfive
Cartel makes life hard for Sportfive in Vietnam
Indian rights boom hits ceiling as saturation reached
Saturation effect puts brake on Indian cricket rights boom
ESS gets more content as rights fee remains flat
ESS gets more Australia cricket for its dollar in five-year deal
French federation looks set to cash in on rights boom
French rugby set for gains
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: American football, athletics, hockey, handball and more
American Football: The NFL Network, the pay-television broadcaster owned by the NFL, agreed a content deal with Outcast, operators of a petrol station digital TV network with 12,000 screens in stations…