Oceania

Australian Rules Football

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…
Football

FA up in Europe despite weaker rights package and recession

Australian Rules Football

Australian football federation outlines future rights strategy
Football

Cartel makes life hard for Sportfive in Vietnam
American Football

FOOTBALL
Cycling

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…
Cricket

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…
American Football

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.
Cricket

Saturation effect puts brake on Indian cricket rights boom

Cricket

ESS gets more Australia cricket for its dollar in five-year deal

Rugby Union

French rugby set for gains
Football

Uefa doubles its money in France but audiences will fall

Football

Fifa maintains free-to-air commitments for 2018-2022; Five markets, but no rights, carved out of European tender
American Football

American Football: The NFL Network, the pay-television broadcaster owned by the NFL, agreed a content deal with Outcast, operators of a petrol station digital TV network with 12,000 screens in stations…
Cricket

Nine Network’s director of sport, Steve Crawley, said that the Big Bash, the Australian Twenty20 cricket franchise league, would need to involve the world’s best players in order to reach its potential on …
Cricket

Australian commercial broadcaster Nine Network’s average audience for the opening two Test matches of the current Australia v India series was 30 per cent higher than the average for the last Australia v…
Cycling

Sports marketing company the Amaury Sport Organisation was appointed to handle global broadcast distribution for the Tour Down Under cycling race in Adelaide, Australia
Australian Rules Football

Justin Holdforth, the head of sport at Australian public-service broadcaster the ABC, said that talks were ongoing over a new broadcast deal for the Australian rules football South Australian National…