Oceania

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports will demand that club rugby league competition the NRL reverses its decision to remove its top-rating Saturday evening game from its new deal with commercial broadcaster Nine if it is to commit to a new contract of its own, according to The Australian newspaper.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has hit out at the Cricket South Africa governing body after the two parties failed to agree a rights deal for the one-day international series between the countries.

The Australian Football League, the top division of Aussie rules football, has awarded its next cycle of domestic rights to commercial broadcaster Seven, pay-television operator Foxtel and telecommunications company Telstra.

Australian commercial broadcaster Nine holds wholesale free-to-air broadcast rights through its new deal with club rugby league competition the NRL, under which it may seek to trade content with rights partners of Aussie rules football league the AFL, according to the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports will show live coverage of all 39 games of the 2015 National Rugby Championship, the third-tier club rugby union tournament in the country.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has agreed a sublicensing deal with BeIN Media Group for coverage of football’s European club tournaments and selected English competitions.

Video-sharing platform YouTube has acquired live rights in New Zealand to the Bundesliga, the top division of German football.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has acquired rights in Australia for coverage of LaLiga, the top division of Spanish football.

The beIN Media Group has confirmed a wide-ranging rights deal with the German Football League (DFL) taking in the Middle East and North Africa region, along with France and Australia.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has introduced new daily and weekly services to access its sports channels, adding it is hopeful of striking a late deal to cover the national cricket team’s tour of South Africa.

The Australian Rugby Union is close to unveiling a new long-term rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports and commercial broadcaster Ten that will give the sport a bigger free-to-air presence in the country, according to The Australian.

Australian commercial broadcaster Nine has retained domestic rights for the National Rugby League in a deal that will double the value of its free-to-air rights fee for the club rugby league tournament.

The Fiji Broadcasting Corporation has agreed a deal to broadcast free-to-air coverage of this year’s Netball World Cup national team tournament to audiences in the country.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports and commercial broadcaster Nine are set to acquire the next cycle of domestic rights for the Australian National Rugby League tournament, leading to a 70-per-cent increase in the total rights fee, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

New Zealand-based digital sports broadcaster Coliseum Sports Media has outlined plans to launch in overseas markets next year.

Sports broadcaster ESPN has said it remains committed to the Australian market despite losing the rights to the Uefa Champions League European club football competition.