Australia: Ten acquires sub-license rights for a weekly free-to-air A-League game

Network Ten has acquired, via sub-licensing from the pay-TV group Fox Sports, the broadcast rights for one game per matchday of the Hyundai A-League, for free-to-air on Saturday night, from the 2017-18 season, announced the Australian private, free-TV audiovisual group on 02/06/2017. Ten replaces the Australian public group SBS who broadcast a free game on Friday night.

The agreement would cover the 2017-2019 period, and "Fox Sports would pay the FFA $2m Australian dollars (€1.3m) a year to assume free-to-air rights to the properties, which it will then sell on to Ten. The Fox Sports coverage of the A-League’s Saturday night games will now be simulcast on Ten’s One channel," according to the Australian newspaper the Daily Telegraph. The audiovisual rights acquired by Ten will also allow them to broadcast the friendly matches of the Australian men's national football team.

Fox Sports have extended their Hyundai A-League broadcasting rights, via the FFA, for another six years, on 20/12/2016 (see below).

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