Cricket

Pan-Asian pay-television broadcaster Taj Television has agreed a worldwide rights deal with the West Indies Cricket Board, the sport’s governing body for the group of Caribbean islands, covering seven y…

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Pan-Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has secured carriage deals in the Philippines and Indonesia for its specialist cricket channel, Star Cricket

BSkyB has put on hold plans to send a production and commentary crew to cover the England national cricket team’s upcoming series against India after the Board of Control for Cricket in India made an u…

The Bangladesh Cricket Board, the sport’s governing body in the country, has sold its worldwide media rights for the country’s national team series against West Indies to satellite-television broadcaster Vir…

BT Vision ambitions shake up UK rights market

FOOTBALL Football: US Spanish-language sports broadcaster Univision Deportes acquired rights to the Germany and France national teams’ home qualifiers for the 2014 Fifa World Cup.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has acquired rights for six England national cricket team overseas tours through to 2020 as part of new multi-year deals with the Cricket Australia, Cricket South Africa…

Deal in Australia takes ESS over $100m profit threshold for global ICC rights sales

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FOOTBALL Football: Norwegian basic-tier broadcaster TV Norge acquired rights for Norway’s five away qualifying games for the 2014 Fifa World Cup from the Sportfive agency.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky New Zealand has renewed its rights agreement with New Zealand Cricket, the governing body for the sport in the country, for a further two years, for rights to all home internationals…

FOOTBALL Football: Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports acquired the US rights to the 2014 Fifa World Cup qualifier home games of all Concacaf nations, excluding the US and Mexico

Australian pay-television operator Fox Sports and the Nine commercial television network jointly acquired rights for national team events operated by the International Cricket Council, the sport’s global g…

Pehla Media and Entertainment, a pay-television broadcaster aimed at Asian audiences, has acquired the exclusive broadcast rights in the Middle East and North Africa region to the India-New Zealand cricket…

Indian mobile television service Zenga TV has secured the exclusive mobile streaming rights to the inaugural season of the Sri Lanka Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition