South-East Asia

The international badminton federation said this week that it has brought in higher television-rights fees and better worldwide exposure for its top events this year.

David Ciclitira, former Chairman of World Sport Group, talked this week about how the financially-troubled agency split into two.

Fifty broadcasters around the world will show the tennis’s Masters series this year.

Sony is struggling to conclude sub-licensing deals for the cable and satellite rights for this year’s cricket World Cup in Asia outside India and Nepal.

Indonesia's TV7 the only terrestrial broadcaster to win Premier League rights so far

The bidders and the winners in South-East Asia

Rights revenue increases 141 per cent on last round of Asian deals

Football: Five Italian Serie A clubs sold the rights for their remaining home games of the season to pay-operator Sky Italia in deals worth between €300,000 (£201,000) and €350,000 a match.  Th

Football: English football’s Premier League began the sales for its next round of international television rights, covering the three-year period from 2004-05 to 2006-07). 

Rights sales process up and running with auctions in different territories

Cricket: Pan-Asian satellite channel Ten Sports agreed a sub-licensing deal with Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan for highlights of the forthcoming Indian tour of Pakistan

Football: German sports agency Infront did not take-up its €595m (£412m) option for the Deutsche Fussball Liga rights for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, failing to reach agreement over price. 

Football’s ongoing European Championships may be attracting huge television audiences across Europe but in some of the poorer Asian markets it is not being shown at all.

ESPN Star Sports is in the middle of tough negotiations with cable operators as it seeks to refund its huge outlay for English football’s Premier League.

The revival of the India-Pakistan hockey test series after an interval of five years has attracted high television interest.

Malaysian commercial broad-caster TV3 is close to signing a deal for the 2006 World Cup