Oceania

North American basketball league the NBA has signed a multi-year partnership with digital sports content company Perform that will result in the live streaming of NBA games in Australia.

The Australian Rugby Union will meet with pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports this week in a bid to finalise a rights deal for its proposed National Rugby Championship, according to The Australian newspaper.

Cricket Australia has extended its live streaming of the 2013-14 Ashes series by announcing that England’s forthcoming tour game in Alice Springs will be offered live coverage.

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven Network has reached a deal to broadcast the 2013-14 Hopman Cup, an annual national team tournament sanctioned by the International Tennis Federation.

Richard Freudenstein, chief executive of Australian pay-television operator Foxtel, has called on the country’s government to alter the current anti-siphoning regulations, which reserve certain sporting events of national interest for free-to-air television.

Australian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has acquired the rights to the 2013 Fifa Club World Cup football tournament, which gets underway in Morocco next month.

Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten has said it will not extend its rights deal for the Hopman Cup, an annual national team tournament sanctioned by the International Tennis Federation.

Digital free-to-air channel Sommet Sports has acquired the rights to the 2013 Fifa Club World Cup football tournament in New Zealand.

Australian commercial broadcaster Nine has agreed a deal with the England & Wales Cricket Board for the media rights to the next two Ashes series played in England.

Football Federation Australia has agreed a new deal with pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports for the 2013-14 season of women’s club competition the W-League.

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven has said it has no plans to switch coverage of the ongoing Rugby League World Cup national team tournament to its main channel despite complaints from some people who have been unable to watch the action.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand’s national free-to-air channel Prime has agreed a rights deal with horse racing’s NZ Racing Board.

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS is considering dropping coverage of the country’s main domestic cycling races unless it receives six months of payments owed to it by the Cycling Australia governing body, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

The Australian Football League, the country’s top Aussie rules championship, is set to trial up to three primetime Sunday night games on commercial broadcaster Seven during the 2014 season, according to The Age newspaper.

Hockey Australia, the sport’s governing body in Australia, has agreed a rights deal with public-service broadcaster the ABC, according to the Australian Financial Review newspaper.

In its deal agreed last month for its rights in Australia, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) achieved a 30-per-cent fee increase, TV Sports Markets understands