Americas

Golf

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has bolstered its golf content by agreeing a multi-year, multi-platform rights deal for the Franklin Templeton Shootout event.

Olympics

International sports broadcaster ESPN will be responsible for providing audiences in the Caribbean with tailored coverage of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro summer Olympic Games, the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (Canoc) has confirmed.

Football

The Team Marketing agency has launched an invitation to tender for the media rights in all Latin American countries, with the exception of Brazil, to the Uefa Champions League, Super Cup and Europa League club football tournaments.

Dorna WSBK, the commercial rights holder of motorcycling’s Superbike World Championship, has agreed a five-year media rights deal with the MP & Silva agency covering all territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, excluding Brazil.

Basketball

The Canadian arm of pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights to the National Basketball League of Canada club competition.

Basketball

North American basketball league the NBA has signed a multi-year digital partnership with Argentinian daily sports newspaper Olé to offer fans in the country access to online video content.

American Football

US sports broadcaster ESPN will televise its first NFL Wild Card Playoff game during the American football league’s 2014 season.

Olympics

US media company Comcast has said the Sochi winter Olympics generated over $1.1bn (€797.1m) in revenue, with its NBCUniversal division’s broadcasts of the 2014 Games making a significant contribution to a first quarter net income rise of 30 per cent.

Boxing

Sports broadcaster ESPN is set to acquire the US rights for world heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko’s defence of his WBA, WBO and IBF titles against Alex Leapai on April 26.

Football

International Champions Cup organiser Relevent Sports has agreed broadcast deals across a host of territories for the 2014 edition of the annual US-based club football competition.

Football

US media company NBCUniversal will broadcast live all 10 matches of the final day of the 2013-14 English Premier League football season – the first time the season-ending games will be aired on network television in the US at the same time.

Skateboarding

US internet media company Blinkx has partnered with action/adventure sports media company GrindMedia to offer users video content from TransWorld’s new extreme sports channels.

American Football

The NFL has no intention of shifting to a pay-television only model in the future, according to Brian Rolapp, chief operating officer of the American football league’s NFL Media division.

The Al Jazeera America division of Qatari pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera has disbanded its sports unit.

Cricket

The ICC’s ambitious income target for its next cycle of media rights sales

Cricket

If there is a common thread running through our stories this issue it is change. It is a process that all sports go through, usually to secure increased media exposure and revenue, and occasionally due to power struggles about how that revenue is divided.

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC will no longer bid for the rights to professional sports events as it seeks to cut C$130m (€85.5m/$117.8m) from its budget this year.

Golf

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB and public-service broadcaster the BBC have signed multi-year extensions to their rights deals for the US Masters golf tournament.