Americas

Nascar Digital Media, the media arm of North American stock car-racing series Nascar, has agreed a deal with YouTube to stream complete race replays on the video-sharing website.

Ice Hockey

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Communications’ acquisition of the English-language regional rights to Montreal Canadiens games this month was driven by its desire to offer the full complement of Canadiens games in English on mobile and online platforms.

International telecommunications company Digicel has acquired St. Lucia-based International Media Content (IMC), the parent company of regional pay-television broadcaster SportsMax.

The National Cable Television Cooperative in the US has agreed a distribution deal with pay-television sports broadcaster Universal Sports Network.

Pool

US sports broadcaster ESPN is to broadcast coverage of the 2014 World Cup of Pool to audiences in the country.

Wrestling

The WWE wrestling organisation has signed a multi-channel rights agreement with pan-regional, pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Latin America.

Baseball

US cable-television operator Time Warner Cable has agreed a deal with independent broadcast station KDOC that will allow all local fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers to watch the MLB baseball team’s final six regular season games.

American Football

US satellite television provider DirecTV has said that it expects to seal an extension to its key rights deal with the NFL American football league by the end of the year.

American Football

The Big East Conference college sports organisation has partnered with the Fox Sports division of US network Fox to launch a new digital channel offering free live streaming of 80-100 events annually.

ESPN president John Skipper has said that the US pay-television sports broadcaster would like to be offered as part of smaller as well as larger cable-television packages.

Cycling

US sports broadcaster Universal Sports Network, a subsidiary of media company NBCUniversal, has signed a media partnership with Richmond 2015 for the US city’s staging of next year’s UCI Road World Championships cycling event.

Boxing

Boxing television rights distributor and sports marketing firm Octapixx Live has been selected to exclusively market the international broadcast rights for Warriors Boxing Promotions’ upcoming world championship cards in the US on October 4 and November 1.

Ice Hockey

Canadian telecommunications company Rogers Communications plans to stream live coverage of 1,000 NHL ice hockey games for free to its wireless and broadband internet subscribers during the 2014-15 season.

Private equity company Bridgepoint Capital could exploit the global expansion ambitions of the two major US sports marketing companies – WME/IMG and CAA – to secure a price in excess of €1bn ($1.32bn) for the Infront Sports & Media agency, experts say.

Football

The IMG Events & Media agency picked up the media rights for the Concacaf 2015 Gold Cup and the Champions League but strong competition failed to materialise.

Ice Hockey

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet has acquired the English-language regional rights for games featuring the Montreal Canadiens NHL ice hockey team.

Ice Hockey

North American pay-television broadcaster One World Sports has sealed a new rights deal for the Kontinental Hockey League Russia-based ice hockey club tournament.

Football

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired exclusive rights for the Argentinian Primera Division, the top division of football in the country.