Americas

NBA basketball franchise the Los Angeles Clippers has agreed a multi-year extension to its partnership with cable television channel Prime Ticket in a deal that reportedly doubles the value of its local rights.

The Dentsu agency has made an investment in US virtual reality company LiveLike through its corporate venture capital fund Dentsu Ventures.

Olympic Broadcasting Services, the host broadcaster organisation for all Olympic Games, has been hit by a Brazilian court ruling accusing it of breaching labour laws during the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The director of the Argentinian government’s Football for All (FPT) initiative, which ensures free-to-air coverage of domestic football competitions, has stepped down amid the impending scrapping of the scheme.

RTVC, the commercial enterprise of audiovisual content in Cuba, has agreed a landmark sports rights partnership with the Rushmans consultancy.

The IMG College division of the IMG agency has extended its multimedia rights deal with the University of South Carolina in the US.

American football league the NFL said Twitter attracted an average of 243,000 viewers to its livestream of the Thursday Night Football game between the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills, the first time the social media company has broadcast an NFL encounter.

North American sports broadcaster One World Sports has agreed a deal with digital sports media content company Whistle Sports to stream live coverage of American football games from the Ivy League US collegiate sports conference.

Mark Lazarus, chairman of the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal, is to step up his remit at the US media company following the departure of Ted Harbert, the chairman of NBC Broadcasting.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights in the Caribbean to national team events organised by Uefa, the governing body of European football.

The Mediapro agency has extended the reach of its Canal F1 Latin America channel by agreeing two new carriage deals in Argentina.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has launched a new mobile application to allow fans to access virtual reality coverage of the college American football game between Ohio State and Oklahoma on September 17.

NBC Universal chief executive Steve Burke has said the US media company secured more than $250m (€224.2m) in profit from its coverage of the 2016 summer Olympics, a significant improvement from the 2012 Games in London.

NBA basketball franchise the Los Angeles Clippers is closing in on a new local rights deal with cable television channel Prime Ticket that would allow it to retain streaming rights, according to the New York Post.

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights in the Americas for the Drone Racing League, while German media company ProSiebenSat.1 has invested in the league as part of a coverage agreement in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The University of California, Berkeley, in the US has signed a multimedia rights deal with the Learfield Sports agency, in a move that will end an existing relationship with the IMG College division of the IMG agency.