08 Jul 2014
Posted by Frost Global 
SBS has received strong viewer numbers for its broadcast coverage of the 2014 World Cup from Brazil. Coverage of the tournament on ESPN and ABC in the United States has seen record numbers for that market. However the real growth story is the number of users going online to follow the action from Brazil. According...
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22 Mar 2014
Posted by Frost Global 
On 13 June 2013 the NSW Government announced that Sydney had won the rights to host the #Openingseries of Major League Baseball (MLB) in 2014 – this would be the first time that such a match would be held in Australia. The #Openingseries of the MLB, which is one of the biggest sporting competitions...
Read more → 11 Aug 2013
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21st Century Fox's new national US sports channel FOX Sports 1 (launching August 17) has secured a 12-year broadcast rights deal to bring major golf to FOX Sports from 2015. The new agreement will see the FOX network and FOX Sports 1 become the principal domestic media partner of the USGA and the U.S....
Read more → 08 Mar 2012
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Foxtel's proposed merger with Austar took another step in the right direction last week when the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissions (ACCC) commenced market consultations over Foxtel's draft undertakings. Foxtel has provided the ACCC with undertakings in order to allay ACCC concerns that...
Read more → 07 Feb 2012
Posted by Frost Global Last week Frost Global published an article about the lack of HD broadcasting of sport on free-to-air TV in Australia, especially since the rebranding last year of ONE HD to simply ONE. Yesterday the SUPERBOWL XLVI was broadcast in Australia LIVE on TEN, ONE and through FOXTEL/AUSTAR on ESPN. According...
Read more → 31 Jan 2012
Posted by Frost Global The English Cricket Board (ECB) today announced that the UK's Sky Sports has been awarded the rights to continue broadcasting live international and county cricket in the UK exclusively until the end of the 2017 English summer. There is also an option for Sky Sports to extend the deal for an additional...
Read more → 29 Jan 2012
Posted by Frost Global A report in the Australian last year confirmed that High Definition (HD) broadcasting of Australian sport on free-to-air television looks dead and buried. For those who did not notice Saturday coverage of AFL matches by the Network Ten only featured on the network's primary channel towards the end of last...
Read more → 25 Apr 2011
Posted by Frost Global 
PREFACE In the lead up to the announcement of the new 2012-2016 television rights deal for the AFL, we are pleased to publish for the first time an original FrostGlobal article from 2006 examining the history and state of AFL broadcasting rights following the announcement of the 2007-2011 rights deal. FOX...
Read more → 28 Feb 2011
Posted by Frost Global Many of you watching One HD"s coverage of the Accenture World Match Play Golf Championship over the weekend may have noticed a change to the Golf Channel's usual coverage. Golf fans in Australia and around the world would be familiar with PGA Tour events having the first two rounds branded with Golf...
Read more → 07 Jan 2011
Posted by Frost Global Sports fans are hungry for information. In the Australian market there are numerous dedicated sporting websites including www.foxsports.com.au, the newly launched www.onehd.com.au and www.sportal.com.au, just to name a few. Whilst the advertising dollar remains focussed on television and government...
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