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Australian broadcaster Nine Entertainment is said to be considering offering its streaming service Stan Sport directly to pubs and clubs via smart television apps, in an effort to ensure its Super Rugby…

Craig Tiley, chief executive of Tennis Australia and tournament director of the Australian Open, has said that he expects the total losses from going ahead with the tournament to exceed A$99m (€64m/$78m) d…

Cricket Australia has launched an invitation to tender process for its media rights in the UK for the 2021-22 Southern Hemisphere cricket season onwards, covering the coming season's Ashes Test series…

Sports data, technology and content solutions company Sportz Interactive (SI) has recently been appointed by News Corp Australia to create custom automated infographics and videographics for its coverage…

Australian telecoms operator Optus has acquired rights to the Uefa Women’s Euro 2022 national team football tournament.

Australian pay-television operator Foxtel snatched the Super Netball domestic league and national-team netball rights from commercial broadcaster Nine with an offer of a guaranteed rights fee that trumped its rival’s revenue-share proposal.

The Pakistan Cricket Board has agreed a deal with streaming platform tapmad TV for rights to the 2021 Pakistan Super League Twenty20 competition in Australia, the Middle East and North Africa, along with…

Over-the-top sports subscription service Sports Flick Global has agreed a deal with cloud video production platform Grabyo that will allow it to offer bespoke viewing experiences for subscribers
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New Zealand’s National Basketball League has secured an extended media-rights deal in the United States with ESPN following an agreement to showcase last year’s Sal’s NBL Showdown for the first time. E

Australian motor racing series Supercars has agreed a deal with YouTube, under which the video platform will offer paid-for live streaming coverage to audiences outside Australia and New Zealand

This year’s Big Bash League was the most-watched tournament in league history, according to Cricket Australia. An average audience of 1.4

There will be free-to-air television coverage in New Zealand of Pure ETCR, the new electric touring car racing series, on the Discovery-owned commercial network TV3

New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has granted clearance of pay-television broadcaster Sky’s sale of its sports production subsidiary Outside Broadcast (OSB) to international outdoor broadcasting specialist NEP…

The Australian Football League has clawed back losses it is suffering due to Covid-19-related renegotiations of its domestic media-rights deals in a two-year extension of its biggest deal, with pay-television operator Foxtel.

Amazon has acquired its first live rights to an Australian sporting event in a deal between Swimming Australia and the online retail giant

Netball Australia has signed a new five-year domestic rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Foxtel

Australia's sports streaming landscape has shifted with a new long-term deal between telco Telstra, pay-television broadcaster Foxtel, and the country's two biggest football codes, AFL and NRL

Australian media group Nine Entertainment has announced further details of its move into sports streaming with its new service Stan Sport, set to launch in early February