Oceania

Australian commercial broadcaster Ten and pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports have renewed rights contracts for the MotoGP motorcycling series, while the latter has also extended an agreement to cover the Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK).

Football

Australian A-League football club Adelaide United has struck a partnership with CubeGoal, the mobile application created by pre-match information platform Cubee Technology.

Rugby Union

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights for Australia’s upcoming rugby union games against France and England.

Football

Commercial broadcaster Nine will pay between A$3.5m (€2.4m/$2.7m) and A$4m for free-to-air rights to the Australian national team’s remaining 2018 World Cup qualifiers.

Football

US sports broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights to the Australian W-League women’s club football competition.

Cricket

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has agreed a three-year rights deal with the Cricket Australia national governing body.

Multi-sport

New Zealand’s competition regulator, the Commerce Commission, has today (Monday) requested further information regarding the proposed merger between telecommunications company Vodafone NZ and pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand.

Australian Rules Football

Gillon McLachlan, chief executive of the AFL, has said that free-to-air coverage of the Aussie rules football competition is likely to drop in 2017 after revealing that Australian commercial broadcaster Channel 10 is unlikely to acquire a rights package.

Mixed Martial Arts

Mixed martial arts promotion the Ultimate Fighting Championship has agreed a long-term partnership with Village Cinemas and Event Cinemas, which will showcase the UFC’s largest events in 63 theatre locations across Australia and New Zealand.

Tennis

Tennis Australia has extended and expanded its rights partnership with Japanese pay-television broadcaster Wowow.

Squash

The Professional Squash Association (PSA) has extended rights partnerships with BT Sport in the UK and fellow pay-television operators Fox Sports Australia and Sky New Zealand.

Cricket

Cricket Australia is hoping to persuade the national government to give the governing body the chance to take some short-form national team matches off the so-called anti-siphoning list.

Horse Racing

Social media platform Twitter has struck a deal to stream live coverage of the 2016 Melbourne Cup horse racing event on November 1.

Multi-sport

Australian digital television service Freeview has claimed a world first by unveiling plans for a new mobile app service that will deliver domestic free-to-air television channels through one centralised platform.

Football

Australian commercial broadcaster Nine has acquired free-to-air rights to the men’s national football team’s qualifying campaign for the 2018 Fifa World Cup.

Football

Football Federation Australia needs to secure an increase in the next cycle of media-rights income for the A-League in order to support the expansion of the domestic top tier, according to chief executive David Gallop.

Australian Rules Football

Australian commercial broadcasters Seven and Nine plan to significantly increase their advertising rates for the AFL Aussie rules football league and NRL rugby league competition in a bid to cover the cost of rights, according to The Australian newspaper.

Basketball

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS has acquired rights to the upcoming season of the National Basketball League domestic club competition.