Americas

The NBC Sports Group division of US media company NBCUniversal has appointed Jennifer Storms as chief marketing officer.

US television broadcasting company Sinclair Networks Group has reportedly held talks with Tennis Channel over a potential takeover of the pay-television broadcaster, according to the Wall Street Journal newspaper.

Uruguayan Civil Court Judge Guzmán López has asked Full Play to provide a $1.75m (€1.55m) guarantee before making a decision over whether the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) can scrap a rights deal with the agency.

American Sports Network (ASN), the college sports platform operated by US television broadcasting company Sinclair Networks Group, has agreed a sublicensing deal with US sports broadcaster ESPN for rights to men’s basketball games from the American Athletic Conference.

The NFL Players’ Association has launched Athlete Content & Entertainment (Ace Media), a company that will identify and create programming opportunities for the American football league’s sportsmen.

International pay-television operator Eleven Sports Network has acquired rights in Poland and Belgium for the North American NFL American football league.

One World Sports has hired Hayley Mackay as the North American pay-television broadcaster’s new director of production.

Caribbean cable-television broadcaster Flow has acquired broadcast rights in the region for the NFL American football league.

The Pac-12 has rejected a proposal from AT&T that would have allowed the US telecommunications company’s DirecTV satellite pay-television service to carry coverage of the US college conference.

Brazilian media company Globo has acquired rights for the 2016 Paralympic Games.

Madison Square Garden Company, which owns US regional pay-television channels MSG Network and MSG Plus along with major league franchises the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers, has approved a spin-off of its sports and entertainment businesses from its media division.

Former Fifa official Jack Warner generated a profit of at least $17m (€15.2m) on football World Cup media rights that were sold to him for a fraction of their true value, according to the Press Association Sport news agency.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has expanded its partnership with social networking platform Twitter to incorporate a new initiative utilising its live video broadcasting app, Periscope.

Yaveo, the Spanish-language over-the-top streaming service from pay-television broadcaster DirecTV, has struck a deal to stream live coverage of the new Combate Americas mixed martial arts series.

American football league the NFL has launched a new subscription streaming service designed as the latest accompaniment to the sport’s traditional television coverage.

The North American NFL American football league has renewed a partnership with digital media service provider RR Media.