Americas

Power Boating

International motorsport promoter P1 has signed a rights deal with US regional pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Florida for coverage of its SuperStock USA powerboat racing championship and AquaX jet ski series in 2014.

Baseball

Major League Baseball has said it is close to approving the Los Angeles Dodgers’ planned regional pay-television sports channel, which is being launched as part of the club’s new local rights deal with US broadcaster Time Warner Cable.

Surfing

Association of Surfing Professionals International has agreed rights deals with video-sharing website YouTube and US pay-television broadcaster ESPN.

Football

The German Football League (DFL) has agreed a multi-year rights deal with 21st Century Fox encompassing the US media company’s properties across North and South America, Europe and Asia.

Cricket

The West Indies Cricket Board has partnered with free-to-air broadcaster the Caribbean Media Corporation to provide live television coverage of the first ever international women’s tri-nation series hosted in the region.

Ice Hockey

The NBC Sports Group division of US network NBC has agreed a three-year rights deal to annually broadcast 12 ice hockey home games featuring the Notre Dame college on pay-television broadcaster NBC Sports Network.

Golf

The NBC Sports Group division of US network NBC has extended its rights deal for golf’s Ryder Cup through to 2030.

American Football

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US sports broadcaster ESPN has signed a video syndication agreement with media company AOL.

Ice Hockey

NHL ice hockey franchise the Buffalo Sabres have agreed a television rights deal with Canadian telecommunications company Bell, giving the team a major broadcast footprint in the Southern Ontario region for the first time.

Action Sports

Global media company Red Bull Media House has agreed the largest US licensing deal in its history after signing a three-year partnership with the Fox Sports division of the Fox network.

Ice Hockey

NHL ice hockey franchise the Phoenix Coyotes have agreed a one-year local television rights deal with independent broadcaster 3TV and its sister station CW6.

Olympics

US network NBC will show the majority of its television coverage of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games on a tape-delayed basis despite the criticism it received for employing a similar strategy for the London 2012 Olympics.

Multi-sport

Pac-12 Networks, the content and multi-platform media company for the Pac-12 US college sports conference, has signed an exclusive multi-year agreement with Fox International Sports Channels, a division of 21st Century Fox’s international multi-media business, to distribute Pac-12 sports programming worldwide.

Nascar has said it will retain its current cable-television partners, ESPN and TNT, until the end of the 2014 season amid reports that the US motor-racing series’ new television deal could be brought forward to commence next year.

Action Sports

US pay-television broadcaster ESPN has said it will continue to distribute rights to the US events of its X Games extreme sports franchise around the world after announcing the end of the series’ international events.

Golf

The US PGA Tour golf organisation has expanded its multi-year marketing partnership with the USA Today Sports Media Group to include new digital content initiatives.

Basketball

The Barclays Center sports and entertainment arena has agreed a deal with the Fox Sports division of US network Fox for the rights to its upcoming Brooklyn Hoops college basketball season.