Oceania

Cricket

The Sporty Solutionz agency has agreed a three-year deal with New Zealand Cricket to sublicense the media rights of its national team in a host of markets across the Indian subcontinent.

Australian Rules Football

New Zealand’s digital free-to-air channel Sommet Sports has said it is exploring a crowd funding initiative as a means to resurrect the platform following its collapse last month.

Football

Asian Cup organisers have said they are expecting record television audiences for the 2015 edition of the national team football showpiece, which kicks off in Australia on Friday.

Cycling

Cycling Australia has announced a two-year partnership with commercial broadcaster Nine and pay-television operator Fox Sports.

Rugby Union

World Rugby, the global governing body for rugby union, has criticised the Fijian government for its handling of a recent dispute over media rights for the Sevens World Series.

Horse Racing

Australian pay-television horse racing broadcasters TVN and Sky Racing have struck a temporary truce to their dispute over the sport’s rights in the states of New South Wales and Victoria, with commercial broadcaster Seven reportedly weighing up a lucrative bid for the contract.

Netball

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports and commercial broadcaster Ten have acquired rights to the 2015 Netball World Cup national team event, which will take place in the country next year.

Online television service Lightbox has linked up with digital sports broadcaster Coliseum Sports Media to establish a new joint venture in New Zealand called Lightbox Sport.

Australian Rules Football

The AFL Commission, the organisation responsible for negotiating the next cycle of domestic rights to the Australian Football League (AFL), the top division of Aussie rules in the country, has postponed talks until next year due to uncertainty surrounding the future of commercial broadcaster Ten, a likely bidder in the process.

Rugby Union

Fiji TV’s deputy chairman of the board, Gary Callaghan, has resigned while chief executive Tevita Gonelevu and head of content Tanya Waqanika have been dismissed following the dispute surrounding the commercial broadcaster’s coverage of the Sevens World Series rugby union tournament.

Rugby Union

World Rugby, the global governing body for rugby union, has lifted its rights embargo on the Fijian broadcast feed for the Sevens World Series after resolving a dispute with the country’s government.

Digital free-to-air channel Sommet Sports has folded 18 months after launching in New Zealand.

Softball

The World Baseball Softball Confederation has agreed a number of broadcast deals for the Oceania qualifying competition of the 2015 Men’s Softball World Championship.

Golf

Online subscription service Coliseum Sports Media has secured the rights to several high-profile golf tours and events for the New Zealand market.

Rugby Union

World Rugby, the global governing body for rugby union, has suspended its rights deal for the Sevens World Series with Fijian commercial broadcaster Fiji TV, according to the Stuff.co.nz website.

Australian commercial broadcaster Ten has said it has received non-binding, conditional investment proposals from a “number of parties”.

German-based pay-television broadcaster Motorvision TV has broadened its global reach by agreeing carriage deals in Australia, Cyprus, Portugal, Angola and Mozambique.

Rugby Union

Online subscription service Coliseum Sports Media has acquired rights to French top-tier rugby union league the Top 14 in New Zealand and will exploit the property via a new direct-to-customer platform.