South-East Asia

Singaporean telecommunications company StarHub has launched a new online streaming service that will offer access to sports content provided via its pay-television operation.

Singaporean telecommunications companies Singtel and StarHub have acquired rights for the Uefa Champions League and Europa League European club football tournaments.

Vietnamese cable television operator SCTV has acquired exclusive rights to a number of European club football properties.

New international pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has agreed its first carriage deal in Singapore through a partnership with pay-television operator Singtel.

Media company CSI Sports, the owner of Fight Sports, has struck carriage deals for the pay-television channel in Finland, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

The CAA Eleven agency has opened a number of tenders in Singapore and Taiwan for media rights to football properties of European governing body Uefa, including the new Nations League tournament.

The beIN Media Group has acquired rights for North America’s Major League Soccer in seven territories across Southeast Asia and Oceania.

The MP & Silva agency has announced the opening of new offices in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Soon-to-be-launched pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has sealed an agreement in Belgium, Malaysia and Poland with the MP & Silva agency covering various sporting properties.

Andrea Radrizzani has said his new pay-television sports channel Eleven Sports Network will not be able to compete for the rights in Singapore to football’s English Premier League.

Danny Menken has been appointed as the group managing director of new international sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network.

Thai peer-to-peer video streaming platform PPTV has agreed a sublicensing deal with pay-television operator Cable Thai Holdings for rights to English Premier League football matches.

TrueVisions will “fight to the end” to dislodge rival Thai pay-television operator Cable Thai Holdings as the rights-holder for football’s English Premier League, according to Suphachai Chearavanont, the president and chief executive of the broadcaster’s parent company, True Corporation.

Interview with Ian Mathie, managing director of Infront Pan-Asia, on the agency’s recent deals with Asian football federations and its regional strategy.

Eurosport’s acquisition of Champions League rights in Singapore is a message to rights-holders and platforms about the broadcaster’s growing ambitions, according to chief executive Peter Hutton.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has said the International Ice Hockey Federation’s 2015 World Championship will be broadcast in close to 160 territories and is expected to surpass the audience figures for last year’s event.