Americas

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Globosat has agreed a four-year rights deal with North America’s Major League Soccer.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcasters TSN and RDS trebled their rights fee and their guarantees for coverage of French Open tennis in last week’s renewal.

Sports broadcaster ESPN has extended its global rights agreement with the North American Soccer League for the 2015 season.

Digital sports video companies SendtoNews and SNTV have agreed a three-year extension to their partnership in North America.

The NFL American football league has suspended its controversial broadcast ‘blackout’ policy for the 2015 season.

US pay-television broadcaster Univision Deportes has agreed a multi-year partnership with the National Basketball Association to provide fans in the US with Spanish-language content from the North American basketball league.

The NFL will experiment with streaming live coverage of the American football league via online platforms on a global basis next season.

Pitch International has appointed Guy Le Grew, the former head of the agency’s Asia-Pacific division, to the new role as head of North America.

The USA Wrestling organisation has signed a partnership with the NBC Sports Group division of media company NBCUniversal and pay-television broadcaster Universal Sports Network.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN Brasil has acquired rights to the European qualifying games for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team football tournaments through a sublicensing deal with rights-holder and rival pay-television broadcaster Globosat.

US pay-television channel USA Network will reportedly broadcast coverage of the NHL ice hockey league’s 2015 Playoff competition.

Brazilian sports broadcaster Esporte Interativo has agreed a three-year rights deal for pre-season club football competition the International Champions Cup.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN and French-language sister channel RDS have agreed a multi-year extension to a rights deal for the French Open tennis grand slam.

US pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN and the ABC network has acquired rights for the Premier Boxing Champions series.

Pac-12 Networks, the content and multi-platform media company for the Pac-12 US college sports conference, has agreed a multi-year distribution partnership with the Metta Sport agency covering the Latin America region.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the country’s media regulator, has dismissed a complaint by Bell Media that rival telecommunications company Rogers is unfairly offering exclusive access to its GamePlus mobile application.