Americas

Uefa, football’s European governing body, has invited bids for the media rights in the United States and Caribbean to the Champions League, Europa League and Super Cup club competitions.

A lawsuit brought by US college athletes seeking a share of television and videogame rights revenue can proceed, a US judge has ruled.

Video-sharing website YouTube has agreed a one-year extension with North American basketball league the NBA for the live streaming of more than 350 games from the second-tier Development League during the 2013-14 season.

US MLB baseball club the Chicago Cubs have exercised an option to curtail their local rights deal with cable-television broadcaster WGN-TV after the 2014 season, according to the Chicago Tribune newspaper.

US pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has announced the appointment of Antonio Briceño as deputy managing director.

US media company 21st Century Fox has said that investment in new channels, including the launch of the new Fox Sports pay-television channels in the US, affected profit in the company’s first quarter of the 2013-14 financial year.

Mexican telecommunications company América Móvil has agreed to sell on exclusive domestic media rights for the 2014 winter Olympic Games to state-owned broadcaster Canal 22, according to the Reforma newspaper.

The US Federal Communications Commission, the country’s media regulator, has proposed the scrapping of the broadcast blackout rule, which blocks US sports events from being shown live on television in their local market if they fail to meet certain conditions, such as a specified level of ticket sales.

Spanish-language broadcaster Univision has secured the US rights to the Mexico national football team’s crucial Fifa World Cup play-off fixtures against New Zealand later this month.

US education establishment Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) has agreed a deal with local state broadcaster MyTV30 for the local rights to 11 games featuring various teams from the university’s athletics department.

American football league the NFL has confirmed it is investigating whether to auction broadcast rights for a new set of regular-season games on Thursday evenings, according to the Reuters news agency.

Regional US pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Florida has acquired rights for live coverage of games featuring the Orlando Magic NBA basketball team.

Two new deals push Bundesliga towards aggressive international media rights fee target

English Premier League football club Aston Villa has agreed a two-year deal with US cable-television operator Time Warner Cable Sports to broadcast its international television programme, Aston Villa Weekly, in the Southern California area.

The WWE wrestling organisation has denied a report that it has earmarked a date in February 2014 for the launch of WWE Network, a new 24-hour pay-television channel in the US.

Creative Artists Agency may have to hand over majority control to outside investors in order to help finance a bid for rival agency IMG, according to the New York Post.