Gary Neville will be replaced on Sky Sports' "Monday Night Football" by Craig Bellamy for Everton’s match against Crystal Palace. But Bellamy is "not being lined up as Neville’s long-term successor," with Frank Lampard due to fill in for the former ManU defender when Chelsea travels to Leicester City next week. Sky Sports plans to use a rotating panel of stars to help Jamie Carragher and Ed Chamberlin "present their Monday Night Football coverage for the foreseeable future following Neville’s departure for the Valencia manager’s job" (London TELEGRAPH, 12/7). ... Turner Broadcasting and WME|IMG named their upcoming new professional eSports league. ELeague, which begins in '16, will be the first league to present eSports on a fully distributed national TV platform. Along with 30 hours of weekly competition streamed live digitally, ELeague will also be presented on TBS (VARIETY, 12/4). ... Vietnam Satellite Television announced that it has acquired the telecast rights of the ATP World Tour series events for three seasons starting from '16. The broadcast rights include the ATP World Tour Final, nine events of ATP World Tour Master 1000, ATP World Tour 500, and a number of ATP World Tour 250 events in addition to some WTA events (VIETNAM NEWS, 12/4). ... The Premier Badminton League on Saturday named Star Sports its official broadcast partner for the upcoming season, which begins on Jan. 2. The PBL will have 18 matches, including two semifinals and one final match, and all the games will be telecast live by Star Sports over 16 days (PTI, 12/5).
