South-East Asia

Vietnamese public-service broadcaster VTV has acquired rights for the 2014 Fifa World Cup international football tournament.

Uefa enjoyed differing levels of success in the sales of its club competition rights in France and Southeast Asia last month. The outcome points to a cooling of the French market but suggests there is still margin for substantial growth in several major Asian territories.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired the rights to the Uefa Champions League and Europa League club competitions in Indonesia, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia for the three seasons covering 2015-16 to 2017-18.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has expanded its reach in the Filipino market by launching its beIN Sports 1 channel through cable television provider SkyCable.

The 2014 Fifa World Cup is set to remain entirely on pay-television in Thailand after the country’s Central Administrative Court ruled the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission must exclude the football tournament’s final from its ‘must carry’ list of sporting events.

The CAA Eleven agency has launched an invitation to tender for the media rights in Singapore to European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team football tournaments, along with Euro 2016 itself.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has secured a carriage deal on new Indonesian pay-television platform K-Vision.

RTM increases fee for World Cup

Singaporean telecommunications company SingTel has acquired rights for the 2014 Fifa World Cup national football team tournament.

Outdoor Channel, the pan-Asian sports broadcaster, has struck a multi-year deal with international sports broadcaster ESPN to show the IndyCar motor-racing series and the X Games action sports events across Southeast Asia.

Malaysian state broadcaster RTM has acquired exclusive rights for the 2014 Fifa World Cup national team football tournament.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) and media partner the Infront Sports & Media agency have announced that the 2014 Track World Championships will be broadcast live to more than 100 territories around the world, including for the first time in India and Malaysia.

The Football Association of Malaysia has announced that three companies are in contention to acquire the broadcast rights to the M-League, the top division of Malaysian football, for the next four years.

StarHub’s head of media business, Lee Soo Hui, said that the Singapore pay-television broadcaster remains hopeful of acquiring rights for the 2014 World Cup national team tournament “at a sensible rate” even though talks with Fifa, football’s global governing body, have dragged on for more than a year.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has secured a carriage deal in Thailand on pay-television operator TrueVisions.

The Sunset+Vine sports media production company has announced it will open up a new office in Singapore.