There has been a flurry of deals in Asia for the media rights of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.

The most notable was Ten Sports, the all sports channel from Taj Television, extending its media right’s agreement for the Uefa Champions League and Uefa Europa League for a three year period from 2012-15 in the sub-continent.

Ten Sports will exploit the rights via television, internet and mobile platforms.

Ten Sports has acquired the rights across all broadcast platforms for the Indian sub-continent, which includes India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Ten Sports will show at least four games live per match week, as well as delayed coverage and highlights for both club competitions. Live and delayed broadcasts of the matches will be available on Ten Sports and Ten Action+, with highlights being broadcast on Ten Sports.

Meanwhile, pay television operator Astro has pipped incumbent rights holder ESPN Star Sports to bag the exclusive media rights deal for the 2012-15 Uefa Champions League and Uefa Europa League in Malaysia and Brunei markets. Astro will exploit the rights across its Astro SuperSport pay platform throughout the territories.

Football fans in Malaysia and Brunei will be able to see live at least six Uefa Champions League and at least four Uefa Europa League matches per match week, as well as highlights and delayed match coverage for both competitions each week.

In Myanmar, S Media has been granted the media rights to the Uefa Champions League and the Uefa Europa League for 2012-15 period.

S Media will broadcast live at least six matches per match week on its pay television channels, as well as highlights and delayed coverage, in respect of both the Uefa Champions League and the Uefa Europa League.

One World Sports (OWS), North America’s leading Asian sports provider, has signed an exclusive agreement with Infront Sport & Media, the global marketing partner of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), to distribute CBA Professional League games on a multi-screen, multi-year basis in North America.

OWS will present two, same-day delay English language basketball games per week for the entire CBA Professional League season.

The CBA is a men’s professional basketball league in Asia and the fastest growing, most popular sports league in China. Founded in 1995, the League is composed of 17 teams.

OWS kicks off the 2011-2012 season on Nov. 20 and concludes in the end of March 2012. The comprehensive media rights package also includes the popular CBA All-Star Game to be staged in Feb. 2012. In the past two years, the entertaining event was a smash success in television ratings and the definite highlight of the entire season.

The CBA is a powerful addition to OWS’ exclusive presentations of the best sports from Asia. It joins a large stable of professional sports leagues including Asia’s major soccer leagues: Australian A-League, Japan J-League, Korean K-League, Chinese Super League. In addition OWS has exclusive rights to the One Asia Golf Tour, and the world’s major Table Tennis, Badminton and Squash events. In North America, the CBA League is exclusively on OWS, which is available on DISH Network.

Infront Sports & Media and the CBA have had a running partnership for 6 years that is proving to be the catalyst to realizing the full potential of Chinese basketball. Infront’s role is in-depth and involves every aspect of marketing the commercial rights and developing the CBA League to raise international awareness of Chinese basketball. In addition to its involvement in the League, Infront acts as exclusive global marketing partner of the Chinese Basketball Associations for the country’s men’s and women’s national basketball teams — Team China.

Preston Bornman, Chief Operating Officer, ONE World Sports, said: “The Chinese Basketball Association is an exciting acquisition for OWS’ viewers. Basketball is a worldwide phenomenon and we are proud to offer Asia’s top professional basketball league to our American audiences. With two exclusive CBA games per week, OWS has assembled a powerful winter schedule that also includes the Hyundai Australian A-League soccer and the Japan Top League rugby.”

Ma Guoli, CEO & Managing Director of Infront China, added: “The fact that the CBA League will be delivered to the North American audience for the first time is proof not only of the growing popularity of the League among the world’s basketball fans but also the effective promotion of the games. Infront is delighted to work together with One World Sports to present the most powerful and vigorous images of the games to the audience in the region.”

Administrative and controlling body for European soccer, cough UEFA, has announced that it has awarded the 2012–15 UEFA Champions League media rights in Greece to ERT and Nova, with Nova also receiving rights for the 2012–15 UEFA Europa League.

The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation also known as ERT has renewed its right to broadcast the best UEFA Champions League match each Wednesday, as well as highlights coverage of each matchweek on NET. This award of rights includes coverage of the UEFA Champions League final and the UEFA Super Cup.

Pay television operator Nova has acquired the remaining UEFA Champions League live games and will show six fixtures per matchnight, including the best Tuesday match, on the novasports branded family of channels. New for the 2012–15 rights cycle, Nova will present live coverage – co-exclusively with ERT – of the UEFA Champions League final. Nova will also ensure extensive matchnight and matchweek highlights coverage throughout the season.

Along with this, Nova was awarded the right to screen live coverage of all matches of the UEFA Europa League except the first pick of the matchweek. Showing five live games each kick-off slot, Nova will allow Greek football fans to enjoy an increased choice of matches. Nova will also have highlights programmes every matchnight.

All above-mentioned rights have been granted on a platform-neutral basis, with the rights being broadcast via television, mobile and online – on ert.gr and novasports.gr respectively.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has been unsuccessful in its second attempt to sell the mobile and internet rights for India’s home matches after their was no interest in the venture as punters still feel the price is too high.

The BCCI had set a reduced price of Rs20 million ($405, abortion 000) for the rights but failed to attract any bids. One local expert said: “This is not something which can go for more than Rs5 million. The internet rights of the Indian Premier League cost around Rs5 million. For a Test match, canada buy it can’t be more than that. They have overpriced it.”

After a meeting on Friday, the BCCI decided to stream free of charge the five one-day internationals and one Twenty20 International against England as well as three Tests and five one-day internationals against the West Indies on its own website. Both series will be streamed live for overseas viewers. In India, the matches will be shown in full with a delay of five minutes.

The second invitation to tender was made after only one party responded to the BCCI’s first tender notice early last month. The tender was for two-and-a-half years, from October 2011 to March 2014. That bid was nearly five times lower than the base price of Rs30 million. The board then lowered the base price to Rs20 million and asked for fresh bids.

The BCCI said that it would launch a global tender for its rights in December.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) have opened up the floor to bidders wanting to takeover the Main Press Centre (MPC) and International Broadcast Centre (IBC) after the London 2012 Games.

The two giant facilities offer around one million square foot of flexible business space on the Olympic Park in Stratford and will house thousands of the world’s top accredited print and broadcast journalists during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The MPC and IBC are adjacent to the creative district of Hackney Wick and within the newly named East Wick area while interested parties, from start-ups to established global companies, have nine weeks to submit their proposals for the two venues.

Andrew Altman, the chief executive of the OPLC, said: “The Press and Broadcast Centres have already generated a huge amount of commercial interest and we are excited to see what bids come forward. Now is the time for businesses to take up this unique offer and become part of what will be a thriving centre for enterprise and innovation in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park’s first commercial space.”

The five storey MPC will provide around 317,000 square foot of office space with the potential for retail uses on the ground floor while the IBC will offer 95,000 square foot of office space over five floors and 575,000 square foot of commercial space over two floors but it has the flexibility to be reconfigured into four separate buildings.

Hugh Robertson, Minister for Sport and the Olympics, said: “This is an excellent opportunity for businesses of all sizes to be part of the foundations of this new commercial district. This is a chance to grab a strategic advantage by being there from the start. The unrivalled location combines the innovative and creative energy for which east London is already famous, with the world-beating profile and setting of the Olympic Park. This is a unique opportunity for any company that wants to be part of something special.”

The MPC and IBC are a fundamental part of the OPLC’s vision to create a mixed use commercial district that will generate employment at a range of levels covering a broad spectrum of skills and opportunities for local businesses.

Following the end of the bidding process on December 2 this year, the OPLC will review submissions before shortlisting potential occupiers in February 2012. The buildings are due to be available for fit out and opening from spring 2013.

“Thousands of media from across the world will use these fantastic facilities during the Games,” added the Mayor of London Boris Johnson.

“But once the sporting action has ended, these centres will become the heart of a new creative high-tech quarter for our capital.”

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The Sportsman media group, has acquired the live streaming rights for betting and gambling purposes of the Australian Open.

The Munich-based sport rights and sport marketing agency and Tennis Australia agreed on a two year deal starting in 2012.

The year’s first grand slam tennis tournament is another high profile sporting event in the Sportsman’s live streaming portfolio for online betting and gambling operators.

Tennis Australia CEO, Steve Wood said, “Tennis Australia is delighted to have signed a two year deal with the sportsman media group and we look forward to a successful and mutually beneficial commercial relationship.”

“The Australian Open as one of the world’s most prestigious tennis tournaments and is now the master piece of our broad tennis portfolio for the gaming industry, which we see as an important partner for sports entities,” says Thomas Krohne, CEO of the sportsman media group.

The Sportsman specializes in providing live streaming solutions for online betting platforms.

For more than six years the Sportsman has offered and implemented live motion pictures of high-profile sporting events to enrich live betting offerings for their clients. Amongst the clients of the sportsman are companies such as bet365, betfair, bwin, Interwetten, Bet-at-Home, Betclic, Expekt or Unibet.

To date the Sportsman is offering more than 20.000 live events for betting and gaming purposes per year.

The Baseball World Cup will be shown live after international media rights specialists MP & Silva and Perform link up to stream the tournament online across LIVEIBAF.TV.

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Fans will be able to sign up to the site at www.liveibaf.tv on a subscription basis for a fee of $15 per day or $40 for the whole tournament and access live matches, with high quality streaming, reliable content and match commentary.

The site will be promoted from the official IBAF site, www.IBAF.org and other leading baseball sites.

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The agreement also includes the terrestrial television and radio broadcast rights in Colombia for the first ever Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in January 2012

Jacques Rogge, IOC President, said: “We look forward to continuing to work with Caracol Televisión. We believe they are well placed to provide great coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games in Colombia, as well as offering coverage of the first ever Winter Youth Olympic Games.”

IOC Executive Board member Richard Carrión, who led the negotiations, commented, “I would like to thank the team at our partner Caracol Televisión for their cooperation in reaching this agreement, and for their commitment to provide fantastic free broadcast coverage of the Olympic Games in 2012.”

Caracol Television’s President, Carlos Alejandro Pérez Dávila,  added, “We are very pleased that Caracol Televisión has once again obtained the rights to the Olympic Games for Colombia. The London 2012 Olympic Games and the Innsbruck 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games are world events of sporting excellence which we are proud to bring to our Colombian audience through our nationwide television network. The Olympic Movement and its ideals will be well represented through our first-rate coverage.”

One World Sports (OWS), North America’s leading Asian sports provider, has signed an exclusive deal with World Sport Group (WSG) to distribute the Australian A-League on a multi-media, multi-year basis in North America.

OWS will present two live football matches per week for the entire A-League season.

The Australian A-League and other top sports from Asia are on OWS, which is available on DISH Network.

The addition of the Australian A-League follows the success of OWS’ live and exclusive distribution of the Japan J-League, Korean K-League, China Super League and the 2011 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League, the region’s premier club competition.

Preston Bornman, Chief Operating Officer of OWS, said: “With the acquisition of the Australian A-League, OWS has now secured the four top professional football leagues in Asia. The acquisition of the A-League’s multi-platform rights is another example of our dedication to deliver Asia’s best football to U.S. sports fans on any device. With two live and exclusive games per week, our coverage of the Hyundai Australian A-League provides OWS live and exclusive professional football nearly 52 weeks a year.”

Mark Hardess, President, ASEAN and Australia, World Sport Group, said: “The Hyundai Australian A-League is a strong addition to OWS’ Asian football schedule. World Sport Group and One World Sports continue on our successful efforts to bring the top Asian football leagues and events to US fans.”

Launched in 2005, the Hyundai Australian A-League is the top professional football league in Australia and New Zealand, and is composed of 10 teams. The 2011-2012 Australian A-League season begins live on OWS October 8. The season concludes in April 2012 with each team playing 27 games.

The World Series of Boxing (WSB) have launched its new YouTube channel WSB TV that will broadcast the entire season.

The WSB is the first and only professional style boxing competition involving boxers eligible to partake in the Olympics.

This project was put into life through collaboration between WSB; its media partner Total Sports Asia (TSA) and Google Inc. The scope of this project is huge and provides great exposure for the rapidly growing league. With its presence on YouTube, the WSB will be accessible to millions all over the world who did not previously gain access to live matches.

WSB Chief Operating Officer Ivan Khodabakhsh shares his enthusiasm about the launch. “We are very pleased to announce the launch of the WSB TV channel on YouTube thanks to Google and TSA. We are very determined to bring the best content of WSB inaugural season and live matches of the upcoming second season to our fans.  

“The WSB TV channel on YouTube will provide free on demand WSB matches to fans, whether at home, in the office or on the road. It is a great step for WSB, reaching to new boxing audiences around the world, beyond the 80 countries which showed the WSB’s first season matches live. This significant step will emphasize WSB’s true global brand”

Aside from live matches, YouTube users will also gain access to exclusive footage of all the franchises as well as highlights, interviews and other media content. The tagline for WSBTV is “revolutionizing world boxing.” The WSB and its YouTube project is a start to a promising future for international boxing.

The channel can be accessed directly from YouTube or through www.worldseriesboxingtv.com and will begin broadcasting live matches from November the 11th when the season kicks off.

The World Series of Boxing is a global sports league created by the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) to reunite the broader boxing world and its grassroots foundation, provide a bridge between Olympic boxing and professional boxing, and grow the sport’s fan base throughout the world.