Oceania

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has acquired rights to Australia’s National Basketball League.

Australian media and content creation company Seven West Media, which controls commercial broadcaster Seven, has acquired a 33 per cent stake in daily fantasy start-up Draftstars.

Fiji and Samoa will miss out on free-to-air coverage of rugby union matches from the Super Rugby, Rugby Championship and Mitre 10 Cup tournaments this year after a promised distribution deal failed to materialise.

Digital sports media company Perform Group has agreed a deal with the NFL to commercialise the American football league’s digital assets in Australia for the 2016-17 season.

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven has acquired rights to the World Cup of Golf, which will take place in the country this November.

Australia’s National Basketball League has launched a new online streaming service that will provide every game live from its 2016-17 season.

Football Federation Australia chief executive David Gallop has said that it is unlikely that pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports will renew its domestic rights deal for the top-tier A-League before the start of the new season.

Australia’s government has no plans to expand the remit of the so-called anti-siphoning list to include digital-media players and telecommunications companies, according to the Australian Financial Review newspaper.

Australia’s Multi Channel Network has agreed a deal to represent the advertising interests of pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports in the country.

US college sports conference the Pac-12 has agreed a multi-year rights deal with Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports in the latest part of its global expansion effort.

The Cricket Australia national governing body is close to agreeing a deal with Qantas that would result in the airline live streaming international matches on its flights.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has acquired rights to the national cricket team’s upcoming two-match Test series in South Africa.

Opposition to the proposed merger between telecommunications company Vodafone NZ and pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand is growing after telco Spark claimed in a submission to the country’s Commerce Commission that the deal would not be in the interests of sports viewers.

The Australian National Basketball League club competition has extended and expanded its partnership with telecommunications company Telstra.

Media company Fairfax Media has claimed a victory for press freedom after a judge today (Friday) decided to dismiss pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand’s application for an injunction on its online video coverage of the 2016 summer Olympic Games.

Australian pay-television operator Foxtel has acquired rights to the 2016 College Football Sydney Cup, which will act as the season-opener of the 2016 National Collegiate Athletic Association College Football Championships.