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Golf’s PGA Tour has said its new PGA Tour Live digital over-the-top subscription service will launch tomorrow (Thursday) with the United States, Canada, Ireland, Australia and the UK serving as initial customer markets.

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet has agreed a sublicensing deal with the Fox Sports division of US network Fox to broadcast coverage of the German Bundesliga in Canada.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has secured a long-term extension to its current media rights agreement with the Missouri Valley Conference college sports league.

Lukas Zajancauskas, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences for this year's Fifa Women's World Cup.

US entertainment studio Warner Bros. has signed a content creation partnership with SpringHill Entertainment, a company co-founded by basketball superstar LeBron James.

North America’s National Basketball Association has confirmed a pricing strategy as it expands the remit of its out-of-market live game service, NBA League Pass, to allow fans to purchase single game and individual team packages for the first time from the 2015-16 season.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has extended its rights deal with the Southern Conference college sports organisation.

US telecommunications company AT&T’s proposed $48.5bn (€44bn) takeover of satellite television provider DirecTV is set to close after the Federal Communications Commission said it would recommend that the transaction be approved.

Canadian broadcast group Asian Television Network has acquired exclusive rights for the second season of India’s Pro-Kabaddi League.

US network ABC will receive more primetime sports on weekends following a new partnership struck with sports broadcaster ESPN covering the NBA basketball league.

The ESPN International division of sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed a five-season extension to its Brazilian rights deal for the top two divisions of Spanish football.

The Learfield Sports agency has signed a multimedia rights agreement with the athletics division of Saint Louis University in the US.

Aaron Davidson, who was head of the Traffic Sports US division, has been “actively engaged in plea negotiations” since his arrest as part of an investigation into football corruption in May, according to a filing in a federal court in New York.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against American football’s NFL and pay-television operator DirecTV by antitrust attorney Michael Hausfeld and colleagues at the Hausfeld law company.

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC has committed to showing more coverage of the ongoing 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto after reportedly receiving complaints from some viewers.

MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and internet company of Major League Baseball, is unlikely to carry out an initial public offering, according to senior MLB executive Bob Bowman.