Oceania
Telstra outlines AFL pricing plan for online coverage
Australian telecommunications company Telstra released pricing details of its live streaming service for the Australian Football League, the country’s top Aussie rules league, in its latest attempt to c…
NRL domestic rights to be opened up to the market in May
The Australian Rugby League Commission, the newly-installed governing body of rugby league in Australia, said that it would offer the new cycle of National Rugby League rights, from 2013 to 2017, to the…
Eurosport pays big to save grand slams but plays it cool with WTA
Eurosport hangs on to French and US Opens - but at a price
Octagon treads softly in Africa
IOC adopts revenue-share model in Africa after Fifa 2010 World Cup experiment
Australian leagues lobby government to change copyright act
The Coalition of Major Participant and Professional Sports, a group representing the interests of Australia’s leading sports, met Australian government ministers on Monday as it stepped up its campaign t…
Big rights fee boost expected for Australian V8 motor-racing series
The domestic rights for the Australian V8 Supercars motor-racing series are attracting interest from all major free-to-air broadcasters and pay-television, and the rights fees could more than double to…
AFL vows to fight Optus judgment
Andrew Demetriou, chief executive of the Australian Football League, the country’s top Australian rules league, vowed to fight a Federal Court judgment that telco Optus did not breach copyright laws b…
Optus judgment a blow for Telstra
The Australian Federal Court found that Australian telco Optus did not breach copyright laws by allowing subscribers of its TV Now service to access sports games that were originally broadcast on free-to-air…
Pitch’s confidence in English football provides boost for FA
FA up in Europe despite weaker rights package and recession
Australia hopes to cash in on digital-savvy fans
Australian football federation outlines future rights strategy
Vietnamese cartel frustrates Sportfive
Cartel makes life hard for Sportfive in Vietnam
Nine under fire for Tour Down Under coverage
Australian commercial broadcaster Channel Nine defended its coverage of the Tour Down Under cycle race after more than 1,600 fans signed an online petition to call for the domestic rights for the road…
Nine chief worried by lost cricket advertising time
Channel Nine chief executive David Gyngell said that the Australian commercial broadcaster’s advertising sales could suffer due to fewer days of play than expected in the Test cricket series currently u…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: NFL, MLB, NBA, Australian cricket, women’s golf and more
American Football: US networks CBS, Fox and NBC acquired rights for the NFL in nine-year deals, from 2014-15 to 2022-23, worth a combined $3.1bn (€2.4bn) per year.
Indian rights boom hits ceiling as saturation reached
Saturation effect puts brake on Indian cricket rights boom
ESS gets more content as rights fee remains flat
ESS gets more Australia cricket for its dollar in five-year deal
French federation looks set to cash in on rights boom
French rugby set for gains