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American Football

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has sealed a 10-year broadcast partnership with the University of Oklahoma and agreed rights deals with fellow Big 12 sports conference colleges Texas Tech University…
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Football

US satellite pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has dropped pay-television channel Gol TV from its service after the latter lost rights to the Spanish Liga, the top division of football in Spain
Football

Romanian commercial broadcaster Pro TV has acquired rights for the Uefa Europa League for three years, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, in a deal brokered by the Team Marketing agency
Basketball

US Asia-focused sports network One World Sports has extended a rights deal for coverage of Chinese Basketball Association tournaments with the Infront Sports & Media agency, the national governing body’s g…
Football

MP & Silva has agreed a one-year contract extension with Major League Soccer that will allow the agency to continue to sell rights to the top-tier US football league on a global basis until the end of…

US cable television motorsports channel Speed acquired live rights for the World Touring Car Championship motor-racing event in Sonoma, the US, on September 23

Rival UK pay-television operators BT and BSkyB announced exclusive UK rights deals for competing versions of Europe’s top club rugby union tournament today.

Lega Serie A, the top Italian football league, has sold its package of free-to-air highlights comprising afternoon comment-based programming and the first viewing of goals round-ups in early evenings on…