South-East Asia

Commercial broadcaster TV5 has acquired rights in the Philippines for the 2015 edition of the International Premier Tennis League exhibition tournament.

Singaporean telecommunications company Singtel has extended a rights deal for football’s English Premier League.

International pay-television broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has acquired rights in Singapore for the inaugural World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier12 tournament.

The International Table Tennis Federation has agreed a multi-year rights deal for the Singapore market with international pay-television sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network.

Vietnamese pay-television operator Vietnam Cable Television has secured rights to South Korea’s K-League top-tier club football competition for two seasons, from 2016 to 2017.

International pay-television operator Eleven Sports Network has acquired rights in Belgium and Singapore to Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain, for the 2015-16 season.

The Football Association of Malaysia today hit back at criticism of the way it plans to distribute the media rights income from its 15-year advisory deal with the MP & Silva agency.

The Handball-Bundesliga, the sport’s top division in Germany, has said its global broadcast reach will extend to beyond 40 countries in 2015-16 through new rights deals agreed by the MP & Silva agency.

Video-on-demand digital platform Vuclip has teamed up with the WWE wrestling entertainment organisation to offer clips of events.

International pay-television operator Eleven Sports Network has agreed a four-year deal for exclusive live broadcasting rights to the European Handball Federation’s Champions League club competition in Belgium, Poland, Malaysia and Singapore.

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.