Oceania

Football Federation Australia, the sport’s national governing body, has agreed a deal for commercial broadcaster Seven to show coverage of the country’s national women’s team on free-to-air television for the first time.

Australia’s National Rugby League has said its clubs will now be able to live stream pre-season games.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has acquired rights to golf’s European Tour and Asian Tour after the content was relinquished by online television service Lightbox Sport.

New Zealand public-service broadcaster TVNZ has acquired rights for the 2018 Commonwealth Games multi-sport event.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN International has renewed a distribution rights deal in Latin America and the Caribbean for the Australian Open tennis grand slam tournament.

The Tennis Australia national governing body has held talks with domestic commercial broadcasters Seven and Nine over the potential staging of a new ‘Fast 4’ team tournament in Sydney.

Australian commercial broadcaster Ten has stepped up its coverage of the inaugural season of Twenty20 cricket competition the Women’s Big Bash League, as Cricket Australia targets a standalone rights deal for future editions of the tournament.

New Zealand-based digital sports broadcaster Coliseum Sports Media has said it is prepared to sublicense some of its golf rights to television broadcasters in an effort to give the sport additional exposure in the country.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has retained rights in Australia for Test matches and tournaments operated by Sanzar, rugby union’s governing body in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

The Australian Rugby Union is poised to confirm a new five-year rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports and commercial broadcaster Ten, according to multiple reports.

Sky Racing World, a US-based distributor of international horse racing to the Americas, has entered into a partnership with Spanish multinational gaming group Codere to provide live video streams of Australian racing in Brazil.

Sri Lankan state broadcaster Rupavahini has acquired rights for the ongoing Sri Lanka v New Zealand national team cricket series in a sublicensing deal with the Sporty Solutionz agency.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC will no longer offer live coverage of tennis grand slam the Australian Open.

Australia’s National Rugby League this week said its unprecedented decision to strike a deal for free-to-air rights ahead of negotiating pay-television rights had contributed to its record total media-rights income.

Australian commercial broadcaster Ten has hailed the successful introduction of day-night Test cricket, but has maintained that the country’s showpiece Melbourne and Sydney Test matches should retain their traditional daytime scheduling.

Rights for the National Rugby League, the top division of rugby league in Australia, have been acquired in the country by pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports and the Telstra telecommunications company.