Oceania

Rugby League

NRL chief executive Dave Smith has said the Australian rugby league competition is targeting a 15 per cent increase in annual value from its next broadcast rights deal.

Australian Rules Football

The Australian Football League, the top division of Aussie rules in the country, will stream live coverage of six NAB Challenge pre-season games online after a backlash from clubs.

Netball

Netball Australia has confirmed that commercial broadcaster Ten has not paid a rights fee under its new deal for the sport and is instead effectively being paid by the governing body’s sponsors.

Netball

Netball Australia has signed a two-year rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports and commercial broadcaster Ten.

 

Squash

The Professional Squash Association has finalised terms for new broadcast rights deals in New Zealand and Australia.

Horse Racing

Australian pay-television horseracing broadcaster Sky Racing has struck a short-term rights deal with the Racing Victoria state organisation, according to the Herald Sun newspaper.

Rugby Union

The Australian Rugby Union is in the final stages of sealing a new broadcast rights deal which will help tackle the financial problems the sport has been suffering, according to chief executive Bill Pulver.

Squash

The Professional Squash Association has agreed new rights deals for its World Tour with pay-television broadcasters Fox Sports and Sky in Australia and New Zealand, respectively.

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports and commercial broadcaster Ten have acquired rights for the Formula One motor-racing championship.

Cricket

Sports content company Aurora Media Worldwide will produce a bespoke package of programmes for the 2015 Cricket World Cup under an agreement with the International Cricket Council.

Pay-television operator Fox Sports is set to assume exclusive live rights to all races from the Formula One motor racing series in Australia from 2016, according to reports.

Tennis

The International Tennis Federation has agreed a number of rights deals for the Fed Cup women’s national team tournament.
Rugby League

Rugby league’s Super League, which comprises clubs from England and France, has agreed new broadcast deals in Australia, New Zealand, France, North America and the Middle East.

Rugby Union

Sky New Zealand has launched a new service that will allow customers to watch premium sports rights online without signing up to its broadcast pay-television offering.

Rugby Union

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has secured broadcast rights for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

Lightbox Sport, the joint venture between New Zealand online subscription services Coliseum and Lightbox launched last month, will be an aggressive competitor for sports rights, according to Coliseum founder…
Horse Racing

Australian pay-television horse racing broadcaster Sky Racing has agreed a 10-year rights deal with racing authorities in the state of New South Wales.

Australian Rules Football

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven has acquired rights for the West Australian Football League Aussie rules tournament.