Cricket

Media rights clips from February 4 to 17

Flow Sports, the Caribbean pay-television channel owned by telecommunications company Cable & Wireless, has acquired rights to the 2016 Asia Cup national team cricket tournament.

Over-the-top content provider YuppTV has acquired exclusive digital streaming rights to the 2016 Asia Cup national team cricket tournament across a host of markets.

Cricket Australia, the sport’s national governing body, has rejected suggestions that it will seek to make an early entry into the market for its next set of domestic broadcast rights.

The Asian Cricket Council earned a big increase in the value of its media rights in a lucrative eight-year deal with pay-television broadcaster Star India.

Media rights clips from January 21 to February 3

A new online streaming platform has been introduced ahead of the inaugural edition of Twenty20 cricket competition the Pakistan Super League.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has acquired rights to show highlights of International Cricket Council events on its website for the next four years.

UK sports production company Sunset+Vine has been awarded the contract to produce the next cycle of rights to non-live programming for International Cricket Council events.

The Sporty Solutionz agency has broadened the reach of the Masters Champions League for the debut season of the Twenty20 cricket competition by striking rights deals covering the Middle East, Pakistan, sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean.

Pay-television broadcaster Star India has warned that it will seek to renegotiate its rights deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) if recommendations to limit advertising during match coverage are adopted.

ESPN has entered into a partnership with the International Cricket Council that will grant the international sports broadcaster digital rights in the UK and Ireland to ICC events over the next four years.

Weak returns for the Masters Champions League, a Twenty20 tournament contested by cricket legends and hosted in the UAE, may reflect an Indian market reaching saturation with the format

Media rights clips from December 17 to January 20

Australian commercial broadcaster Ten has stepped up its coverage of the inaugural season of Twenty20 cricket competition the Women’s Big Bash League, as Cricket Australia targets a standalone rights deal for future editions of the tournament.

Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN), formerly known as Multi Screen Media, has acquired exclusive broadcast rights in India and five other markets for the new Masters Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament.