South-East Asia

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.

The Fox International Channels broadcast division of media company 21st Century Fox has linked up with several Asian media companies to make its Fox Sports content available on an OTT basis in the region.

Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport has agreed a three-year deal for the exclusive rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competition in Singapore.

The aggressiveness of telco Telekom Srbija was a driving factor in increases in the value of the rights to the Uefa Champions League and Europa League in the Balkans.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has closed multi-year rights agreements with three members of the Asian Football Confederation.

Malaysian pay-television operator Astro has retained its broadcast rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competition in Malaysia and Brunei.

The matching-rights clause held by pay-television broadcaster Astro in its previous agreement with the Football Association of Malaysia is continuing to cause complications for the association.

Pay-television broadcaster Solar Sports has sublicensed rights in the Philippines for the upcoming world welterweight boxing clash between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Junior to free-to-air broadcasters ABS-CBN, GMA-7 and TV5.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has acquired exclusive rights for the highly anticipated welterweight world championship unification boxing clash between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao on May 2.