South-East Asia

Sportsfix, a new OTT service for Southeast Asia, has acquired rights for the Korean K League, Liga 1 Indonesia and Thai League top-tier football competitions, as well as pre-season friendlies featuring European teams.

The Asian Football Confederation has said it will continue to work with the Saudi Arabian Football Federation and the United Arab Emirates Football Association to ensure the uninterrupted broadcast of AFC Champions League and Fifa World Cup qualifying matches in a bid to protect its commercial rights amid the ongoing situation concerning rights-holder, Qatar-based pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports.

Sportsfix, a new OTT service for Southeast Asia, has acquired rights for the Chinese Super League football competition in Malaysia.

Filipino media company ABS-CBN has renewed a rights deal for the One Championship mixed martial arts series.

Thai pay-television broadcaster RS has renewed a rights deal for the UFC mixed martial arts series.

Filipino media company ABS-CBN has acquired rights to the upcoming world welterweight boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn.

The future of Eleven Sports Network in Singapore is uncertain after the pay-television broadcaster terminated its deal to show the English Premier League.

The CAA Eleven agency has launched new tenders in Greece, Japan and Vietnam for rights to Uefa national team properties.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has maintained its future in Singapore remains secure after deciding to drop its coverage of club football competition the English Premier League and shed around a third of its employees in its local office.

Indonesian media group Elang Mahkota Teknologi (EMTK) has acquired exclusive NBA media rights in the country.

Kreatif Media Karya, the digital business arm of Indonesian media conglomerate Elang Mahkota Teknologi, has agreed a rights deal with the NBA.

The Football Association of Malaysia’s new regime is seeking a broadcast deal for the country’s domestic league after the collapse of its agreement with the MP & Silva agency.

Lagardère Sports has more than doubled its fee to renew its commercial rights to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Football Federation’s biennial national team tournament.

The Lagardère Sports agency has agreed a deal to distribute global media rights to events organised by the Football Association of Thailand.

Organisers of the 2017 Southeast Asian Games in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur have promised that this year’s edition of the multi-sport event will break records in terms of live broadcast coverage.

The Lagardère Sports agency has secured media-rights deals in various territories for the International Table Tennis Federation.