Americas

Baseball
Attendance

Major League Baseball suffered record-low viewership of its All-Star Game, with 7.01 million viewers on Fox, but the July 14-16 weekend was the best attended of the season so far. The 7
Cricket
Media

Major League Cricket (MLC), the first professional T20 cricket league in the United States, has further enhanced the broadcast offering in its home market through deals with the CBS Sports division of…
Basketball
Media

The Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association and the Mercury of the WNBA will be taking their local broadcasts to Gray Television, leaving Diamond Sports Group's Bally Sports regional sports…
US College Sport
Media

The entertainment-focused CW Network has acquired exclusive rights to a slate of college football and basketball games from the Atlantic Coast Conference
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Disney is considering selling an equity stake in ESPN and is "open-minded" in finding a strategic partner, according to its chief executive officer Bob Iger
Basketball
Media

The Women's National Basketball Association has drawn an average of 548,000 viewers on ESPN through 13 games for a 46-per-cent increase over the 2022 WNBA season average on the network
Netball
Media

The Netball World Cup has been left without a title sponsor just three weeks out from the start of the tournament, after insurance and investments company Vitality pulled out of its agreement
Cricket
Media

Major League Cricket has announced a domestic media rights deal with subscription broadcaster Willow TV and a series of international media rights agreements ahead of its inaugural season
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

US digital media company Greenfly has announced the acquisition of Miro AI, an artificial intelligence-powered content-as-a-service platform
Multiple Sports
Host Broadcast & Production

Fox Sports Films has announced that it is partnering with media company Religion of Sports to co-produce new and original sports documentaries
Multiple Sports
Media

Charter Communications has introduced a new model that the company says will "significantly benefit customers subscribing to its sports programming" in a major shake-up by a cable operator designed to…
Golf
Media

LIV Golf has announced a deal for airport television network ReachTV to stream live Friday tournament coverage of its events on a non-exclusive basis in the US
Wrestling
Media

ViX, the OTT streaming platform owned by Spanish-language broadcaster TelevisaUnivisión, has acquired rights in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean to the All Elite Wrestling promotion.
Multiple Sports

Experts have told SportBusiness Media that the regional sports network business will continue to exist in the United States, though the near future will see continued turbulence.
Football
Finance & Law

Liga Forte Futebol (LFF), one of two collectives seeking to plot a new path for Brazilian football, has miscalculated the level of support it enjoys among clubs, according to reports in the country
Football
Data

South American football governing body Conmebol has today (Wednesday) announced an agreement for sports data and betting services company Sportradar to become the exclusive global audiovisual and betting…
Motorsport
Media

NASCAR's Cup Series street race in Chicago drew a total audience of 4.795 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, making it the most-watched NASCAR race on NBC platforms in six years
Football
Finance & Law

A proposed four-season agreement between Infront and England’s Football Association to sell FA Cup broadcast rights in various international markets has not been signed off despite the agency being selected a…