Americas

American Football

WEWS NewsChannel 5, the ABC affiliate of media company E.W. Scripps, has agreed a multi-year local broadcast rights deal with NFL American football team Cleveland Browns.

Wrestling

US media and entertainment company Discovery Communications has signed a multi-year rights deal with TNA (Total Nonstop Action) Impact Wrestling to broadcast the professional league on the Destination America channel.

Basketball

The American Sports Network has agreed a deal to broadcast coverage of the 2014-15 Horizon League US basketball collegiate competition.

Multi-sport

The breadth and depth of coverage the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games will achieve in Canada is seen by the International Olympic Committee as an acceptable trade-off for a minimal increase in media-rights income.

Football

The acquisition of the Champions League rights earlier this month paves the way for Brazilian commercial channel Esporte Interativo to enter the pay-television market, while simultaneously damaging its future rival ESPN.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has agreed a sublicencing deal with Spanish agency Mediapro for the rights to the Formula One motor racing championship in Latin America.

Skiing

US media company Universal Sports Network has renewed and expanded a rights deal for European International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup events.

Multi-sport

US pay-television broadcaster ESPN Deportes has acquired Spanish-language rights for this month's Central American and Caribbean Games multi-sport event.

US College Sport

The IMG agency has extended its multimedia rights partnership with Baylor University in the US.

Boxing

US pay-television broadcaster HBO has acquired rights for this weekend’s heavyweight world title fight between defending champion Wladimir Klitschko and Kubrat Pulev.

Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE), a company that owns and operates live sports events, has completed the acquisition of InterMedia Outdoors Holdings, a US media group and channel operator dedicated to outdoor sports.

Baseball

Satellite-television provider DirecTV and telecommunications company AT&T have been granted permission to launch Root Sports Houston, a new US network that will provide coverage of Houston Astros MLB baseball and Houston Rockets NBA basketball games, according to the Houston Chronicle newspaper.

Basketball

Filipino telecommunications company Globe Telecom has agreed a multi-year deal with the North American NBA basketball league to jointly develop and distribute various video content services in the Philippines.

Tennis

US pay-per-view and closed circuit sports events distributor Integrated Sports Media has acquired rights to new franchise-based competition the International Premier Tennis League.

Basketball

The SportSouth channel operated by regional US pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports South has extended a rights deal with the North American NBA basketball franchise the Atlanta Hawks.

North American stock car-racing series Nascar has agreed a content partnership with US cable and satellite broadcaster Nickelodeon.

Baseball

Houston Astros MLB baseball and Houston Rockets NBA basketball games will be provided to a much wider television audience after a judge approved a bankruptcy reorganisation plan involving the two teams’ local rights-holder, Comcast SportsNet Houston.

Rugby Union

The IEC in Sports and RDA TV agencies will provide free live streaming of Saturday’s USA v New Zealand rugby union international in 127 territories, through the backing of match presenting sponsor AIG.