South-East Asia

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)

Singapore-based mixed martial arts promotion One Championship is reported to have made a loss of S$131.4m ($98
Football

Chinese tech giant Tencent has agreed a collaboration with Thai media company Zense Entertainment to create an app to deliver live streaming match coverage and other content from Thai football
Football

The value of Uefa club competition rights in Indonesia has risen incrementally in a renewal with media group Emtek, covering the three seasons from 2021-22 to 2023-24.
Football

Indonesian media group Emtek has renewed its rights for Uefa club competitions for the next three-year cycle, 2021-22 to 2023-24
Football

The Asian Football Confederation has signed off on another rights agreement in a deal with the Korea-based KJSMWorld Corp. media group and agency, covering Cambodia and Laos
Football

The sale of broadcast rights to Uefa club competitions during the 2021-24 cycle has begun in four Asian territories, including Korea
Football

The Premier League has launched the second phase of its anti-piracy fight in Hong Kong and Malaysia
Football

The Asian Football Confederation has named pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus Myanmar as its rights-holding broadcaster in the territory from 2021 to 2024, in a deal brokered by the Football Marketing…
Multi-sport

A pool of six free-to-air Thai channels are to broadcast live coverage of Tokyo’s rescheduled 2020 Olympics after details were announced at a press conference in Thailand.
Football

Varavuth Jentanakul, founder and chief executive of Thai media company Zense Entertainment, explains the story behind his company’s landmark eight-year deal for Football Association of Thailand rights.
Football

The value of Asian Football Confederation rights in Vietnam rose considerably in the recent deal with telco FPT, driven by a competitive sales process that took place well before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Wrestling

Wrestling entertainment promoter WWE has secured a new deal in Thailand to broadcast its flagship weekly shows, Raw and SmackDown
Football

Thai media company Zense Entertainment and international broadcaster Eleven Sports are discussing the creation of a linear and digital media platform for Thai domestic football in the wake of Zense’s landmark eight-year rights deal with the Thai FA.
Football

Broadcasters in Indonesia and East Timor have been issued a deadline of November 12 to submit their first-round offers for rights to the Uefa Champions League after the sales process was launched by the…
Athletics

The University Athletic Association of the Philippines has announced pay-television broadcaster Cignal TV as its broadcast rights-holder until 2026
Football

Live Carabao Cup and English Football League Championship matches will be shown in Singapore and Indonesian from this month after deals were struck by the Singapore-based Reddentes Sports agency and Pitch…
Football

The Football Association of Thailand has officially announced a landmark, long-term media-rights deal with Thai company Zense Entertainment running until 2028, as well as a short-term arrangement with…
Football

Vietnamese telco FPT Telecom has acquired the media rights for Asian Football Confederation competitions in the 2021-24 period, in a deal brokered by the Football Marketing Asia agency