The NBA and DELFI, the leading web portal in Lithuania, announced a new multi-year partnership that includes plans to launch www.nba.com/Lithuania, the NBA's new official online destination in Lithuania. Set to launch during the '16-17 season and hosted in a dedicated section of www.delfi.lt, the new online destination will provide fans in Lithuania with one live NBA game per week, select NBA playoff games together with a range of multimedia content including game recaps, top plays, localized highlights and real-time statistics with insight and expertise from DELFI's editorial team. The new site will also support the NBA's grassroots events in Lithuania (NBA).
The traditional Saturday afternoon South Australian National Football League timeslot will be back in '17 as the "centerpiece of a new broadcast agreement with the Seven Network." The new agreement, which "extends the SANFL’s relationship with the Seven Network until at least 2018," will see the SANFL match of the week shown on the network’s main Channel 7 station, predominantly on a Saturday afternoon (SANFL).
The Fight Sports Network has become available on OTT sports portal DAZN in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan. The launch "follows a distribution agreement signed between Fight Sports operator CSI Sports and UK-based media company Perform Group which launched DAZN in August 2016." Live events featured by Fight Sports include the HBO Championship Boxing series as well as WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO world title boxing events in all DAZN markets (BROADBAND TV NEWS, 11/17).
