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Golf’s PGA Tour has said its new PGA Tour Live digital over-the-top subscription service will launch tomorrow (Thursday) with the United States, Canada, Ireland, Australia and the UK serving as initial customer markets.

Netball World Cup Sydney 2015 has partnered with the Netball Live mobile app to enhance the national team tournament’s global coverage.

The TSA agency has brokered deals in New Zealand and a host of eastern European markets for the AIBA Open Boxing.

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has enhanced its backing of the FFA Cup by stating it will provide live streaming of all non-broadcast matches from the fledgling domestic club football competition’s Round of 32 onwards in 2015.

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS has extended its long-running association with the Uefa Champions League club football competition by agreeing a sublicensing deal with pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group.

The 35th America’s Cup sailing event has secured broadcasting deals in Australia and Poland.

Media company CSI Sports, the owner of Fight Sports, has struck carriage deals for the pay-television channel in Finland, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

The beIN Media Group has acquired rights for North America’s Major League Soccer in seven territories across Southeast Asia and Oceania.

The beIN Media Group has acquired rights for a number of competitions operated by the European Handball Federation.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports is set to acquire rights in Australia for the W-League domestic women’s football tournament.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has acquired rights in the Oceania region for football’s Uefa Champions League European club tournament.

The IPC Swimming division of the International Paralympic Committee has said a record level of broadcast coverage has been secured for the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, which got underway today (Monday) in Glasgow, Scotland.

Australian commercial broadcaster Ten has agreed a deal with the Cricket Australia governing body to cover the inaugural season of Twenty20 competition the Women’s Big Bash League.

Organisers of the International Champions Cup pre-season football series have agreed a partnership with US media platform Bleacher Report.

Australian commercial broadcasters Seven and Ten, along with US technology giant Google, are all in contention for the free-to-air television rights to the NRL rugby league competition from 2018 following the conclusion of the first round of talks, according to The Daily Telegraph.

The thoroughbred racing clubs of Victoria eschewed an immediately lucrative offer for their rights from Sky Racing in favour of launching a new channel with commercial broadcaster Seven.