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).

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.