The broadcaster, which will launch a new digital 24-hour sports channel in 2009, called ONE, said it has acquired the complete rights package to the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

 

The deal includes free-to-air and subscription broadcast rights, and all radio, internet and mobile rights.

 

Ten has the Australian broadcast rights for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, in India, which it also paid A$30 million (£13.2 million) for.

 

Ten on-sold the pay-TV, internet and mobile phone rights for those to Foxtel for A$15 million (£6.6 million).

 

Ten chief executive Grant Blackley said the Commonwealth Games was a major event in the Australian and international sporting calendar.

 

He said: "Acquiring the rights to the Glasgow Commonwealth Games will build on our much-anticipated broadcast of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010."

 

Blackley said the Glasgow Games, from July 23 to August 3, 2014, would be shown on Ten in standard definition and on ONE in high definition.

 

Ten has embarked up on a major spending spree, signing up a number of sports.

 

They recently outbid Channel 9 to win the rights to Australian swimming and have also secured for its ONE channel sports including American NASCAR, the National Football League in the US, Major League Baseball, Formula One and America's NBA basketball.

One's golf events include the Johnnie Walker Classic and Singapore Open.

 

The Nine Network and Foxtel secured the exclusive broadcast rights in Australia for the 2012 London Olympics in a deal signed in October 2007.