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Asian TV set for Fifa battle
Asian TV gears up for World Cup war with agencies
Beckham quadruples La Liga rights fees in Asia
Presence of Beckham has made La Liga Asia's second most popular overseas league, ahead of Serie A
Premier League sets ball rolling for tough Asian battle
Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals
Forget cricket, Ciclitira banks all on Asian golf
David Ciclitira, former Chairman of World Sport Group, talked this week about how the financially-troubled agency split into two.
Masters expands world coverage
Fifty broadcasters around the world will show the tennis’s Masters series this year.
Sony in need of more Asian deals
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.
Asian dilemmas, bids and pacts
The bidders and the winners in South-East Asia
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, horseracing, boxing and tennis
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.
ESS fights to get its cash back
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.
Premier League riding high as ESS takes a battering
Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports will have to adapt to a very different world after the latest round of bidding for English football’s Premier League rights.
Agencies face hard FA sales
International rights split between several agencies - revenue increases 275 per cent
Asia fees up despite ‘Eurocentric’ Uefa
Sportfive has agreed deals in key South East Asian markets, including Malaysia and Indonesia
Ad growth drives new media
English Premier League to receive £74 million over three years from sale of mobile and internet clip rights
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Olympics, Fifa, Italian, Brazilian, English football
Olympics: Hong Kong pay-television broadcaster I-Cable Communications acquired the new media rights for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and all media rights for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and…
Asian free TV can’t afford Olympics
Lack of national representation or medal hopes and rescheduling of events to suit US audiences hits Asian broadcasters' chances of recouping rights outlay
Goal TV emerges as new challenger to dominant ESS
Goal now has strategic partnerships in three of the five key South and South East Asian markets
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: NBA, Euro 2008, French, Spanish, Italian football
Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16.
ESS revenue hit as cable exploits rights victories
Pan-Asian broadcaster in tough talks over continued distribution of its channels in Thailand, following loss of English Premier League football rights to UBC