Americas

The new-look Pac-12 Conference has appointed Octagon to lead its media rights negotiations, two years on from a failed broadcast deal and the fallout of the conference

Warner Bros. Discovery has settled its lawsuit against the National Basketball Association, bringing an end to the legal saga spurred by the league’s new domestic broadcast deals.

Walt Disney’s streaming business continues to be profitable, partially offsetting a sharp fall in its linear networks' operating income in its fourth-quarter results.

TV Pública has reportedly been told it will not be able to broadcast matches from the Primera División next season, ending a period of domestic free-to-air coverage of the Argentinian top-flight.

Diamond Sports Group has received approval to emerge from bankruptcy, with 27 major league sports franchises in its portfolio and a significantly downsized debt position.

Liberty Media has unveiled plans to spin off various assets, excluding Formula 1, into a separate publicly traded company, called Liberty Live, and revealed the impending exit of group CEO Greg Maffei

Tennis Channel has announced a direct-to-consumer product, marking the first time in its 21-year history that viewers do not need a cable subscription to access content

Fifa has begun the sales process in the host country of Brazil for media rights to the 2027 Women's World Cup, in what is expected to be a highly competitive auction

Cricket West Indies has struck a domestic media rights agreement with ESPN until 2030, providing the governing body with the long-term broadcast deal it has craved

Hospitality sales related to the Paris 2024 Olympics helped boost revenues at Endeavor, where sports were the biggest driver of growth across the group in an otherwise mixed third quarter.

Boxing remains a vertical of interest to TKO but there will be no immediate move into the sport described "at its best as confused and fragmented, at its worst as broken" by president Mark Shapiro.

Women's World Cup media rights are being sold by Fifa on a standalone basis for the first time in the United States.

Fubo has improved its third-quarter performance compared to the same period last year, though is still operating at a loss, the streaming platform has revealed in its latest financials earnings report

Comcast has reported a near $2bn uplift in quarterly total revenue, year-on-year, aided by what chairman and CEO, Brian Roberts, described as an “incredibly successful Paris Summer Olympics”

Caribbean pay-television broadcaster Verticast and regional telcos Flow and Digicel are heading to the courts in the first quarter of 2025 in an anti-competitive lawsuit

Cosm, the immersive technology and entertainment company, has reached an enhanced agreement with the National Football League to show live matches for the rest of the 2024 season.