Fox Sports acquires Wimbledon TV rights in Asia for 6 years

The Fox International sports network channel, Fox Sports, has secured the exclusive broadcasting and multimedia rights to air the Wimbledon Championships in Asia until 2020.

Coverage will be shown on terrestrial, cable, Asian cable and satellite TV networks and will also allow viewers to catch up via the on-demand service using the Fox Sport Play website. In addition to English, tennis fans in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia will also have access commentary in Cantonese, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Thai and Mandarin.

Zubin Gandevia, president of Asia Pacific and Middle East at Fox International Channels said “We are pleased to continue our strong relationship with the AELTC as we build on the strength of Wimbledon and offer our fans the best in grand slam tennis.” 

The company already boasts coverage of both the Australian Open and French Open Grand Slam grand slam events across the continent.

“We are delighted to build on our strong partnership with Fox Sports for a further six years. Delivering live output across all platforms of all the action, plus telling the Wimbledon narrative to a growing pan-Asian audience is a high priority for the Championships.” added Mick Desmond, commercial director of the AELTC.