South-East Asia

Media conglomerate News Corporation has acquired exclusive mobile and internet clip rights in Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia for the top football divisions in England, Germany, Italy and France, plus several other club football competitions.

Thai media conglomerate GMM Grammy has acquired the domestic broadcast rights to the Uefa Euro 2016 football tournament.

Measat Broadcast Network Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysian pay-television network Astro, has agreed a carriage deal with Telekom Malaysia subsidiary TM Net Sdn Bhd for pay-television channels Astro SuperSport HD and Astro SuperSport2 HD.

Coverage of English Premier League football in Singapore will be shared by pay-television operator SingTel and pay-television broadcaster StarHub for the first time over the next three seasons after the former’s appeal against a cross-carriage order was rejected, according to the New Paper.

Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport Asia has acquired the media rights to German Bundesliga football in Indonesia and the Philippines for the next two seasons.

MP & Silva and Pitch provide the content for Al Jazeera’s expansion into Asia

CAA Eleven, Uefa’s exclusive marketing agency for the sale of certain media and commercial rights relating to its national team competitions, has launched a tender for the media rights to the European qualifiers for Euro 2016 and the 2018 Fifa World Cup in Indonesia.

Malaysian pay-television operator Astro has acquired the broadcast rights in Malaysia and Brunei to the European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup football tournaments.

Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has announced it will launch next month in Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines and Taiwan.

The MP & Silva agency has acquired the rights to English football’s top-tier Premier League for the next three seasons in the Philippines and Taiwan.

The Total Sports Asia agency has agreed a three-year deal to distribute the television rights for the TNA Impact Wrestling organisation across South East Asia, with the exception of the Thai market.

English Premier League football club Manchester United has a struck a deal that will allow Thai pay-television broadcaster TrueVisions to carry the club’s in-house pay-television channel, MUTV.

Cambodian free-to-air broadcaster CTN has acquired the exclusive free-to-air and pay-television rights to the 2014 Fifa World Cup football tournament, according to the Phnom Penh Post newspaper.

Thai pay-television operator Cable Thai Holdings has agreed a content partnership with the Red Bull Media House global media company.

Malaysian pay-television operator Astro has linked up with the UFA Sports Asia agency to create Asia Sports Ventures, a new joint venture that will aim to commercialise the sport of sepaktakraw worldwide.

The MP & Silva agency has announced that it has reached an agreement with Al Jazeera to launch beIN Sport, the Qatari pay-television broadcaster’s sports pay-television service, in Indonesia.