South-East Asia

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.

Asian mixed martial arts organisation One Fighting Championship has agreed a new rights deal with Malaysian free-to-air broadcaster TV9.

State-owned broadcaster S Media has extended rights deals in Myanmar to show the Uefa Champions League and Europa League European club football competitions.

Filipino commercial broadcaster ABS-CBN has replaced free-to-air youth lifestyle channel Studio 23 with a new sports channel.

Sports5, the sports arm of commercial broadcaster TV5, has acquired rights in the Philippines for the Olympic Games.

Pay-television operator Cable Thai Holdings has acquired exclusive media rights in Thailand for WWE wrestling entertainment programming.

Uefa, football’s European governing body, will relaunch the sales process for the media rights in the Philippines to the European qualifiers for the Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup international football competitions, along with France’s hosting of Euro 2016, on January 7.

Uefa, football’s European governing body, has invited bids for the media rights in Myanmar to the Uefa Champions League and Super Cup club football competitions.

The Sportfive International agency has agreed a deal with the Netball Singapore governing body for the host production and global distribution rights to its 2013 Nations Cup competition.