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The MKTG agency has secured an agreement with Football Federation Australia to commercialise the governing body’s FFA Digital Network, including the My Football Live App.

Football Federation Australia has sealed a new rights deal with the Telstra telco.

Australian telco Optus has renewed an agreement for rights to football’s English Premier League.

Telco Spark acquired rights to the 2019 Rugby World Cup last week, outbidding Sky New Zealand in a deal which could shake up the country’s media-rights market.

The Indian Premier League T20 competition is being broadcast in Australia again after a six-season hiatus, via a deal with Fox Sports.

North American basketball league the NBA has today (Thursday) signed a multi-year partnership with Perform that will see the digital sports content and media group manage the organisation’s official websites in more than 15 international markets.

New Zealand telco Spark has acquired rights to the 2019 Rugby World Cup, along with a host of other tournaments staged by the sport’s world governing body, World Rugby.

Tennis Australia told TV Sports Markets its commitment to an open tender for its domestic rights allowed commercial broadcaster Nine to acquire them in a surprise deal.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports and commercial broadcaster Seven have today (Friday) sealed a domestic rights deal with Cricket Australia in an agreement that takes limited-over internationals behind the paywall for the first time and ends commercial broadcaster Nine’s long-running association with the rights.

Commercial broadcasters Nine and Ten have reportedly put a new and improved offer to Cricket Australia for its domestic rights, as pay-television operator Foxtel confirmed it had exited the process.

Pay-television operator Foxtel has made a sizeable offer for complete broadcast and digital rights to Cricket Australia properties, according to multiple reports.

The Premier League, the top division of English club football, has launched three tender processes for its broadcasting rights in various Asian territories, Australia and New Zealand.

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has acquired rights for the 2018 Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament.

Australian commercial broadcaster Nine has snatched the domestic rights to the Australian Open tennis grand slam from rival Seven from 2020.

Sky New Zealand is expected to lose rights to the Rugby World Cup after the pay-television broadcaster today (Wednesday) announced that it is not the preferred bidder for the contract to the 2019 tournament in Japan.

Reduced exclusivity has not affected the value of Fox Sports’ new deal for French Open rights in Australia, agreed this month.