Americas

Argentina’s Primera Division football clubs have requested that the government’s Football for All (FPT) scheme, which ensures free-to-air coverage of domestic football competitions, is disbanded at the end of the year.

The IMG College division of the IMG agency has extended its multimedia rights and licensing deal with Tulane University in the US.

Social media platform Twitter has signed its latest content partnership through an expanded deal with North American basketball league the NBA.

The Atlantic Coast Conference is set to become the latest US college sports organisation to launch its own broadcast network after agreeing a 20-year deal and rights extension with sports broadcaster ESPN, according to multiple reports.

WBAL, a regional affiliate of US media group NBCUniversal, has extended a local rights deal with NFL American football franchise the Baltimore Ravens.

Pac-12 Networks, the content and multi-platform media company for the Pac-12 US college sports conference, has broadened its reach through new carriage deals with regional pay-television providers Cox Communications and Frontier Communications, and has detailed further social media initiatives.

Social media platform Twitter has signed its latest major rights partnership today (Thursday) through an agreement with US college sports conference the Pac-12.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has agreed a four-year broadcast partnership to cover post-season college American football game the Foster Farms Bowl.

The Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees has finalised rights deals in Belize for the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Organisers of Brazilian club football tournament the Primeira Liga are set to explore a tender process for the broadcast rights to the second edition of the competition, which will expand in 2017.

US media company NBCUniversal is expecting to sell at least 15 per cent more advertising for the Rio 2016 Olympics than the previous London 2012 edition of the summer Games.

Virtual reality technology company NextVR has partnered with MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and internet arm of Major League Baseball.

US sports broadcaster ESPN is planning to test a direct-to-consumer model by selling a package of live programming for online streaming, according to The Information.

Cricket Australia has sealed rights deals with sports broadcaster NBC Sports Network and cricket-dedicated media company Willow TV in the US and Asian Television Network in Canada.

Social media company Twitter is in talks with North American basketball league the NBA, Major League Soccer and US cable-television broadcaster Turner Broadcasting System over acquiring digital streaming rights, according to the Recode website.

The English Premiership has at least quadrupled in value and significantly increased its coverage in sub-Saharan Africa, taking advantage of competition between pay-television broadcasters