Broadcast Rights

NEW DELHI: Star Sports Friday announced its partnership with the Asian Legends League as official broadcast partner for the next three seasons, spanning from 2024 to 2026. 

The Asian Legends League, a platform for former retired cricket legends from Asian countries, is set to showcase the talents of iconic players in a league format.

The league, organized by World Sports Group (WSG), will feature five franchise teams representing renowned cricketing nations: Indian Royals, Sri Lankan Lions, Bangladesh Tigers, Pakistan Stars, and Afghanistan Pathans. 

May 09, 2018 14:05
NEW YORK: UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, and The Walt Disney Company’s new Direct-to-Consumer and International segment along with ESPN, have reached an immersive, multi-year media rights agreement for exclusive live UFC content on ESPN+, as well as across a variety of ESPN’s television, social and digital platforms, in English and Spanish, taking effect in January 2019.
May 07, 2018 15:05
DUBLIN: Cricket Ireland has announced that online radio station Guerilla Cricket has won the ball-by-ball radio commentary rights for Ireland’s historic inaugural Test match on May 11 against Pakistan. 
Apr 30, 2018 17:04
MUMBAI: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has issued a notice making it compulsory for TV channels that broadcast live sports of “national importance” to display a ticker with immediate effect stating the match is also available on Doordarshan’s free-to-air platform. 
Apr 20, 2018 17:04
NEW YORK: The US Open has made a splash in the digital world with the USTA announcing an exclusive rights deal with Amazon Prime Video. The internet video and on-demand service has been granted the exclusive live telecast rights to the US Open Tennis Championships in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
Apr 19, 2018 17:04
LONDON: The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and Twitter have announced a deal to live stream the ITTF’s 2018 Challenge Series events to a global audience to complement ITTF’s current streaming platform itTV.
Apr 18, 2018 16:04
LONDON: talkSPORT has won the cricket audio rights for England's major upcoming overseas tours. It is the first time BBC Five Live’s Test Match Special programme has lost the rights for an England away tour to a commercial broadcaster since 2005.  The free to air rights cover England's tours of Sri Lanka and the West Indies including all the Test matches, ODIs and T20 internationals from each tour. 
Apr 13, 2018 13:04
MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia Friday sealed a new six-year broadcast and digital agreement worth A$1.182 billion ($920 million) that also broke Channel Nine's four-decade stranglehold of CA television rights. The new agreement signed with Fox Sports and Seven West Media is an increase on the current rights value where CA receives up to A$600 million from its existing five-year deal. 
Apr 11, 2018 16:04
NEW DELHI: Fresh off bringing all big-ticket cricket played in India under his network's wing, Uday Shankar, chairman and CEO of Star India and president of Twenty-First Century Fox Asia, has expressed confidence that ad revenues from this year's IPL will cross Rs20 billion.
Apr 08, 2018 23:04
HOW MUCH IS THE right price for owning cricket in India? Last week's e-auction for India cricket media rights throws in some pointers. With Star India outbatting its two opponents, Sony Pictures Networks India and Reliance Jio, with an offer of Rs 6,138 crores, the maths show a per match cost of around Rs 60 crore over the next five years.
Apr 06, 2018 15:04
MUMBAI: Star India Private Ltd has won the BCCI India International and Domestic media rights for the period from 15th April 2018 till the 31st March 2023 following an online auction process that lasted three days.