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World Baseball Softball Confederation Announces Broadcast Rights Around The World

The World Baseball Softball Confederation announced that broadcast rights have been awarded in territories across the world for the first-ever WBSC Premier12. In Europe, Fox Sports has been awarded the rights to broadcast the new int'l baseball flagship tournament in Italy and the Netherlands. Dutch free-to-air public broadcaster NOS was awarded Premier12 broadcast rights in the Netherlands. Eleven Sports Network has obtained broadcast rights across Belgium, Poland, Singapore and Malaysia. Broadcast distribution across Asia also includes beIN Sports (Indonesia and the Philippines), LeTV and PPTV (China), Macau Cable, Sky Net (Myanmar), Solar (Philippines), i-Cable (Hong Kong) and Vietnam Digital Television. Japanese satellite TV network J-Sports has also acquired broadcast rights adding to the already announced agreements with TV Asahi and the Tokyo Broadcasting System in Japan (WBSC). 

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