Philippines

Fiba overhaul to bring national team basketball to home fans and boost value of World Cup; Rights fees up but tough talks still to come in key territories

Pan-Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has secured carriage deals in the Philippines and Indonesia for its specialist cricket channel, Star Cricket

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

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

How ESS will become more aggressive under News Corp; Difficult marriage from day one

IMG Media helps US Open land 50 per cent increase in Asian rights

Uefa, European football’s governing body, agreed deals in a number of territories in Asia and Oceania for rights to this summer’s Euro 2012 tournament.

Filipino commercial broadcaster ABS-CBN acquired rights from the Philippine Football Federation for national team matches in a four-year deal, from 2012 to 2015

Football: The ISM agency acquired the rights in Indonesia to the 2014 Fifa World Cup in a deal worth $55m (€40m). ISM sold the rights to the Bakrie Group for about $60m (page 9).

Basketball: The MP & Silva agency brokered several deals for the Spanish league, the ACB, beginning this season

Football: Chinese state broadcaster CCTV acquired the rights to China’s international football teams for three-and-a-half years, from July 23 until the end of 2014, from the Chinese Football Association’s com…

ESPN Star Sports wins La Liga rights after aggressive bid but could still split in the next 12 months

Football: SNTV, the sports news agency operated by the IMG agency and The Associated Press, has acquired non-exclusive news clip rights outside Europe for the Confederation of African Football’s Africa C…

Badminton: Indian sports broadcaster Neo Sports signed a three-year deal, from 2011 to 2013, for the Badminton World Federation World Superseries, with the global rights-holder, the Malaysia-based Total…

League rights spotlight on Germany's Bundesliga

Japan's potential forced withdrawal from Copa America casts doubt over value of Traffic's already-agreed broadcast deal in the country.