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SportBusiness Asia editor Kevin McCullagh says an industry exodus from Hong Kong has left Singapore as the definitive sport business 'hub' for the Southeast Asia region.

Australian telco Telstra is close to acquiring a 51-per-cent stake in Australian IPTV service Fetch TV, as it seeks to build a bigger presence in video entertainment, according to local media reports

Major tennis events are set to return to Auckland next year following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in New Zealand, according to Tennis Auckland chief executive Rohan West

Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group has agreed a distribution deal in Sweden for its Viaplay OTT streaming service with telecoms operator Tele2

Pan-regional sports broadcaster SPOTV has agreed a carriage deal with Indonesian telecoms operator First Media

Media group Discovery plans to combine its subscription streaming service, discovery+, with WarnerMedia’s HBO Max, once its planned merger with the AT&T-owned entity completes.

Telecom Italia (TIM), the dominant telecoms operator in Italy, has announced it will engage in formal talks with KKR over the US-based private equity firm’s takeover approach.

Match fixing across professional sport may have reached an unprecedented level last year, according to figures from sports data and betting services company Sportradar

Pan-regional sports broadcaster SPOTV has launched a mobile streaming app. SPOTV Now will provide live and on-demand access to linear pay-television channels SPOTV and SPOTV2 across Southeast Asia

In this week’s episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview Lou DePaoli, managing director at global sports consulting and management firm General Sports Worldwide. Fisher and Russo also discuss the new collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association, MLB’s streaming rights agreement with Apple, continued developments with the Premier League’s Chelsea and Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the National Football League’s season-long suspension of Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Calvin Ridley for gambling offenses, and ownership moves for the Premier Hockey Federation’s Toronto Six and Boston Pride.

Australian insurance provider GIO has extended its naming rights agreement for Canberra Stadium

The WME Sports agency has announced three new hires to help grow its US-based sports talent and property representation business

Global sports data provider Genius Sports posted $84m (€76.4m) in revenues in its fourth fiscal quarter, an increase of 78.7 per cent from the comparable period in 2020.

Jorge Urrutia del Pozo, vice president of football for NFT firm Dapper Labs, says the company is interested in producing digital collectibles for “many sports”, provided they enjoy a large and engaged fanbase, and outlines how the company plans to spend the $607.5m raised in nine separate funding rounds.

The second module of sports industry educational series Sports Matters Academy takes place next Tuesday, March 15, and will focus on the topic of marketing

Sportswear giant Adidas generated revenues of €21.2bn ($23.4bn) last year, its latest financial report shows.