South-East Asia

Multi-sport

The Dentsu agency got off to a good start in its 2020 and 2022 Olympics rights sales in Southeast Asia, striking a deal in Singapore that delivered a fee increase and avoided a repeat of the fraught negotiations for Rio 2016.
Football

The value of English Premier League rights has fallen significantly in Singapore and declined once again in Malaysia with each country’s incumbent rights-holder needing to cut costs internally and facing little external competition.
Horse Racing

SIS, a provider of end-to-end products and services to the betting and broadcast industries, has extended its rights deal with Singapore Pools
Multi-sport

Singaporean media company Mediacorp has secured rights to the 2020 summer Olympic Games and 2022 winter Olympic Games, both of which will be held in Asia
Football

The Malaysian Football League, organising body of club football competitions in the country, is seeking a new main partner after agreeing to terminate its contract with telco Telekom Malaysia
Football

Talks between the English Premier League and social media platform Facebook to finalise two media-rights deals in Asia have collapsed, SportBusiness Media understands
Mixed Martial Arts

The value of Ultimate Fighting Championship rights has fallen in the Philippines, but local sources say the result is still a good one for the promotion and its owner, IMG, given current market dynamics
Football

Fox Sports Asia’s new two-and-a-half-season deal with IMG for Serie A rights in Singapore and Malaysia, is understood to be worth about $7m (€6.1m) for both territories combined, equating to about $2.3m
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Asia has agreed an exclusive, multi-year rights agreement to broadcast Italian Serie A football matches in Singapore and Malaysia.
Football

The beIN Media Group has so far been the main beneficiary of the DAZN Group’s decision to delay the launch of its OTT service in Southeast Asia.
Football

Eleven Sports' operation in Myanmar, My Sports, has agreed a partnership with Forever Group to produce and distribute the country's top-tier football league, the Myanmar National League, on the media entertainment…
Football

Singapore-based telco StarHub has acquired rights in Singapore and Indonesia for the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana club football competitions

Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister, Vương Đình Huệ, has called for efforts to intensify in divesting public-service broadcaster VTV’s stake in VSTV, the service provider of pay-television broadcaster Kplus, ac…
Football

My Sports, the new service launched by pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports in Myanmar, has struck an exclusive live rights and production deal with the Myanmar Football Federation
Multi-sport

Facebook has finally emerged as a major player in the global sports rights-market Acquisition strategy is highly targeted, with India and Latin America among priorities
Football

Thai media company True Group has posted a net profit of THB385m (€10.4m/$11.7
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Singtel has completed a new three-season deal for English Premier League rights, from 2019-20 to 2021-22

Research by the Coalition Against Piracy of the Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) has found that as many as 45 per cent of Thai consumers use a television box that can be used to stream pirated content