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The Football Association of Thailand and its media-rights sales adviser, the Octagon agency, expect a competitive market to deliver a revenue increase of over a third in their forthcoming tender for domestic and international rights to club and home-fixture national team events for the 2021-28 cycle.

After two failed negotiations in an uncompetitive environment, the English Premier League has completed a deal in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos with pay-television broadcaster TrueVisions that will see the value of its rights halve.

Facebook has finally emerged as a major player in the global sports rights-market Acquisition strategy is highly targeted, with India and Latin America among priorities

The Infront agency has already exceeded its guarantee to Fifa for rights to the 2018 and 2022 World Cups across Asia with rights to the 2022 tournament still to sell in all but its most-valuable market, China, TV Sports Markets understands.

Social media company Facebook has beaten an incumbent pay-television broadcaster to media rights of a flagship property for the first time, TV Sports Markets understands.

Thai telecoms operator Advanced Info Service (AIS) has secured broadcast rights to the 2020 summer Olympics in Tokyo in a deal struck with Thai agency Plan B Media
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Global agency to aid FA Thailand as next cycle of media rights for property begins in January

Qatar-based pay-TV broadcaster beIN has signed a deal to broadcast this year’s Rugby World Cup across nine Asian nations exclusively.

Thai pay-television broadcaster TrueVisions has acquired exclusive rights in the country to football’s English Premier League. The three-year deal covers the 2019-20 to 2021-22 seasons.

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The value of Asian Football Confederation rights doubled in Thailand after a renewed deal with commercial broadcaster BBTV.

Thai media company BEC World paid a massive premium to acquire International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) rights in the country.

Thai digital-terrestrial broadcaster PPTV has boosted its sports portfolio by sublicensing a slate of football rights from beIN Media Group.

Uefa enjoyed differing levels of success in the sales of its club competition rights in France and Southeast Asia last month. The outcome points to a cooling of the French market but suggests there is still margin for substantial growth in several major Asian territories.

Thai football boom continues with big deals for Thai Premier League and Euro 2016

IOC carves out five more Asian markets to handle in-house and further weaken ABU rights; Frustrated Barton blasts ABU

Singapore carriage deals show new ESS channel strategy

Vietnam deal closes Asian sales

Skynet pays a high price to keep Forever at arm's length

Feeding frenzy for Premier League rights continues in Asia; IMG Media and MP & Silva battle it out for Asian rights

ESS adds Sri Lanka Premier League to boost reach of Star Cricket channel

Serie A values up by a quarter in Asia

How ESS will become more aggressive under News Corp; Difficult marriage from day one

Uefa looking for huge increase in value for third-party qualifier rights to hit ambitious target

IMG Media helps US Open land 50 per cent increase in Asian rights

MP & Silva takes big portfolio of club football rights to Asia

FA set for small increase in Asia with new MP & Silva deal