Americas

Ice Hockey

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet has renewed a media rights deal for ice hockey’s Canadian Hockey League.

Wrestling

The WWE wrestling organisation is seeking bids for the broadcast rights to key properties such as Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown after its exclusive negotiating window with current rights-holder, US media company NBCUniversal, expired without the agreement of a new deal.

Latin American and Caribbean satellite television provider DirecTV PanAmericana has agreed a content partnership with global media company Red Bull Media House.

Argentinian pay-television broadcaster TyC Sports is set to become part of a new independent company after media conglomerate Grupo Clarin was permitted to break up its operations rather than face a forced dismantling to comply with a new media ownership law.

NBC Sports Group, a division of US media company NBCUniversal, has signed a multi-year extension to its broadcast rights deal with US motor racing series TORC: The Off-Road Championship.

Multi-sport

América Móvil enjoys Olympic benefits but the big prize will come in 2016

Fox and ESPN explain why having the Olympic Games non-exclusively makes sense in Latin America

Ice Hockey

US cable television channel One World Sports has acquired exclusive, multiplatform rights in North America to the Kontinental Hockey League, the top division of ice hockey in Russia.

NBC Sports Group, a division of US media company NBCUniversal, has acquired broadcast rights for the Global Rallycross motor racing series under a multi-year deal effective from its 2014 season.

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews the most-watched events of 2013 across 10 of the world’s biggest media markets E
Tennis

The MP & Silva agency has extended a deal to distribute worldwide media rights for the men’s ATP World Tour tennis tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

US media company Comcast has agreed a deal to acquire US pay-television operator Time Warner Cable for $45.2bn (€33.2bn).

Olympics

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has secured a rights deal covering Latin America for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia and the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

MX Sports Pro Racing, organiser of the Pro Motocross Championship, has signed pay-television channel MAVTV as a new broadcast partner for the 2014 season of the US motor-cycling series.

Kickboxing

Glory Sports International, the parent company of kickboxing promotion Glory World Series, has announced the renewal of multiple rights deals in Europe and the Americas.

American Football

US network CBS has been awarded the rights for a new Thursday night package of NFL American football games.

Baseball

The parent company of financially-troubled Comcast SportsNet Houston, the exclusive local media-rights holder of Houston Rockets NBA basketball and Houston Astros MLB baseball games, has been placed under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Learfield Sports has strengthened its US college sports multimedia rights portfolio by acquiring rival agency Nelligan Sports Marketing.

Ice Hockey

The Rogers Communications telecommunications company has confirmed that it will show 500 regular-season NHL games across 13 different channels in Canada during the 2014-15 season as part of a new 12-year rights deal with the North American ice hockey league.