Vietnam

Football
South-East Asia

A volley of rights sales this year reallocated properties formerly held by pan-regional broadcaster Fox Sports Asia and began shaping a new sports broadcasting landscape in Asia-Pacific.
Mixed Martial Arts
Sub-Saharan Africa

Pay-television operator Canal Plus has broadened its sports rights portfolio outside of mainland France by agreeing a multi-year deal with mixed martial arts’ Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Golf
South-East Asia

Eclat Media Group has continued its effort to replace Fox Sports as the dominant pay-television broadcaster in Asia-Pacific, acquiring exclusive rights to The Open Championship across the region in a three-year deal.
Football
France

Italian Serie A rights values have declined by around a third in France and Southeast Asia under a deal with beIN Sports, mirroring recent trends in those markets.
Football
Singapore

Singapore will host the entire 2020 Suzuki Cup national team football tournament, in a break with tradition for the competition due to the pandemic
Motorsport
Asia

South Korean media company Eclat Media Group’s new pan-Asia-Pacific sports media platform will step into the gap left by Fox Sports Asia with a more ‘localised’ and digitally-focused service.
Multiple Sports
Hong Kong

South Korean company Eclat Media Group is aiming to fill the gap left by the closure of Fox Sports Asia by launching a new, pan-regional sports pay-television and digital platform in Asia-Pacific
Football
Vietnam

VTV Cab, the pay-television arm of Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV, has acquired rights to French football’s Ligue 1 from 2021-22 to 2023-24.
Football
Vietnam

Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV has acquired rights for Vietnam's upcoming qualifying matches for the 2022 Fifa World Cup in a sublicensing deal with telco FPT
Triathlon
China

The Professional Triathletes Organisation and the IMG agency have sealed further broadcast deals for the Collins Cup competition in China, Malaysia, South Africa, Thailand and Vietnam, along with launching…
Football
Asia-Pacific

Sports rights formerly held by Fox Sports Asia, which is shutting down next month, have attracted bids from several companies interested in taking over the Disney-owned pay-television platform's position…
Olympic Games
Vietnam

Vietnamese state-run broadcaster VTV has acquired the broadcast rights for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on the eve of the Games
Football
Australia

Lega Serie A has accepted offers for rights to Italian football’s Coppa Italia and Supercoppa from 2021-22 to 2023-24 in four European countries, along with Australia, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Vietnam and s…
Football
Vietnam

Telco FPT’s desire for football content to drive its video streaming platform has helped Uefa to an increase in the value of its club competition rights in Vietnam.
Football
Vietnam

Vietnamese telco FPT has acquired exclusive broadcasting rights to Uefa’s club competitions in Vietnam for the next three seasons.
Football
South Korea

New Uefa club competition media rights agreements in South Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia and Uzbekistan were confirmed in an updated list of deals published yesterday by the European football body
Olympic Games
Asia-Pacific

The Hong Kong government told SportBusiness Media this week that its acquisition of Tokyo 2020 rights was a one-off prompted by the extreme financial pressures placed on broadcasters by the pandemic.
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
Vietnam

The Professional Fighters League has secured a media rights deal with Vietnamese sports network FPT TV for the 2021 season, expanding the mixed martial arts organization's distribution in Asia