Pan-Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports and the Eurosport Asia-Pacific pay-television channel have purchased rights for the 2013 Asian Le Mans Series of motor-racing endurance events.
The broadcasters agreed the one-year deals with S2M, the promoter of the series.
ESPN Star Sports will broadcast highlights of all six of the series’ races across its television, internet and mobile platforms, and the deal also includes video-on-demand rights covering the broadcaster’s footprint of 24 countries in Asia.
Eurosport Asia-Pacific will broadcast 26-minute highlights shows after each of the six events and is “also studying the possibility of broadcasting some of the races live or slightly delayed,” according to S2M. Eurosport Asia-Pacific will broadcast the coverage in 17 countries across Asia.
The schedule of events for the 2013 series will be unveiled later this month, but it has been confirmed that there will be three events in China and one each in South Korea, Japan and Indonesia.