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Tennis Australia, the governing body for the sport in the country, is expected to put out to tender its next cycle of free-to-air domestic rights for the Australian Open tournament, according to the Australian…

BT Vision ambitions shake up UK rights market

Media conglomerate News Corporation’s hopes of acquiring Australian media investment company Consolidated Media Holdings have been boosted after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the c…

Australian network Seven has acquired rights for the 2012 Australian Open golf event in Sydney. Seven will broadcast 20 hours of live coverage across the four days of the tournament, on December 6-9

The National Rugby League, Australia’s top rugby league competition, said it is “comfortable” with its broadcast rights partnership with Nine, as the commercial television network awaits the outcome of ta…

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has acquired rights for Australia’s National Basketball League, the country’s top basketball division.

Deal in Australia takes ESS over $100m profit threshold for global ICC rights sales

Australian network Seven said it would attempt to convince the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the country’s competition watchdog, that acquiring media investment company Consolidated M…

Australian public-service broadcaster SBS has acquired delayed rights to the national football team’s away World Cup qualifying match against Jordan this afternoon, Wednesday, September 11.

Australian telecommunications company Optus will shut its TV Now mobile television service after being denied leave to appeal its case against two Australian sports bodies and rival telco Telstra in the…

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has renewed its rights agreement with New Zealand Cricket, the governing body for the sport in the country, for a further two years, for rights to all home internationals…

Australian pay-television operator Fox Sports and the Nine commercial television network jointly acquired rights for national team events operated by the International Cricket Council, the sport’s global g…

Perform has agreed a partnership with the Basketball Australia governing body that will allow the digital media company to provide live coverage of all games from the National Basketball League, the top…

The new domestic broadcast rights deal for the National Rugby League, Australia’s top rugby league competition, will enable clubs to erase their debts, according to the NRL Club Council.

Australian pay-television operator Fox Sports and the Nine commercial television network have retained domestic rights for the National Rugby League, the country’s top rugby league competition.

The Australian Rugby League Commission, the body which runs the National Rugby League, said it has contingency plans to cater for the possibility that a new domestic media rights deal is not agreed by…

This week’s BBC deal for the rights to four editions of the Olympic Games has taken the International Olympic Committee to $1.0

ESS adds Sri Lanka Premier League to boost reach of Star Cricket channel