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Pay-television broadcaster Star India has extended its long-running rights deal for the English Premier League top-tier club football competition.

Asian pay-television broadcaster Star Sports has acquired rights for the 2016 season of India’s Premier Badminton League team competition.

Star India’s strategic shift away from overseas sport allowed Multi Screen Media to buy rights to Italy’s Serie A and the English FA Cup earlier this month.

Star India’s renewal with Indian hockey’s governing body highlights the broadcaster’s strategy of ground-level investment in minority sports.

Asian pay-television broadcaster Star Sports has signed a three-year extension to its rights deal with the Hockey India governing body.

The DTM German touring cars series has reported an increase in coverage in the Asian market as it seeks to expand its broadcast footprint.

The International Cricket Council will make television umpire communication during the knockout stages of the ongoing World Cup national team tournament available to host broadcaster, pay-television broadcaster Star Sports.

Pay-television network Ten Sports’s desire for exclusivity pushed up the value of MotoGP rights in the Indian subcontinent in last month’s deal.

Star India’s new deal for Indian Premier League internet and mobile rights helps the broadcaster in three ways: it gives it vital digital content, helps undermine the exclusivity of rival Sony, and ensures Star has a role in IPL coverage ahead of the sale of the main television rights in India.

Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan will continue to share broadcast signals of the 2015 Cricket World Cup with cable television operators after the country’s Supreme Court today (Thursday) reserved a verdict on the matter.

The Novi Digital Entertainment subsidiary of pay-television broadcaster Star India has acquired rights for the next three seasons of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament, from 2015 to 2017.

Indian public-service broadcaster Doordarshan has been permitted to share broadcast signals of the 2015 Cricket World Cup with cable television operators on a temporary basis following a ruling from the country’s Supreme Court today (Tuesday).

The German Bundesliga is set to more than double its international rights value from 2015-16 onwards following a host of deals agreed in recent weeks.

Pay-television broadcaster Star Sports has acquired rights in India for the Bundesliga, the top division of football in Germany.

Giles Clarke, the head of the International Cricket Council’s media-rights negotiation team, hailed this month’s deal with Rupert Murdoch’s Star pay-television operations as “hugely positive for the game around the world.”

Rupert Murdoch-owned media companies Fox International Channels and Star India have maintained their grip on the Wimbledon Championships, renewing deals in East Asia and the Indian subcontinent respectively.