Americas

US cable television channel One World Sports has added to its football portfolio by agreeing a season-long rights deal to air delayed coverage of games featuring English Premier League team Arsenal.

North Dakota State University has agreed a three-year broadcast rights extension with US media company Hoak.

Premiership Rugby, the commercial rights-holder and organiser of the World Club 7s rugby union tournament, has agreed three additional broadcast deals, TV Sports Markets understands.

NBC Sports Group, operated by US media company NBCUniversal, has agreed a 10-year rights deal, from 2015 to 2024, with the Nascar motor-racing series.

Fox Sports 1, the new national pay-television sports channel that will be launched by US network Fox on August 17, will look for advertising agency partners from later this year, according to Fox Sports Media Group head of marketing Robert Gottlieb.

ESPN has confirmed that its US Spanish-language broadcaster, ESPN Deportes, and its ESPN 2 channel will share live coverage of matches from the 2013-14 Liga MX, the top division of football in Mexico.

Telecommunications company Bell has added its pay-television channel Sportsnet to the Bell Mobile TV service in Canada.

Brazilian pay-television channel SporTV has agreed a deal with the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) to broadcast the forthcoming IPC Athletics World Championships, according to the Meio e Mensagem news website.

Celebrity video website producer Young Hollywood will launch an online channel focused on the 2014 Fifa World Cup.

US pay-television broadcaster the Tennis Channel has requested a rehearing of its court claim that pay-television provider Comcast unfairly placed the channel in a lower tier than Golf Channel and other channels in which it holds an interest, according to the Variety newspaper.

Pay-television channel GolTV is to share the US media rights for the 2013-14 season of Dutch football’s top division, the Eredivisie, with sports broadcaster ESPN.

Traffic and Full play sign Copa American truce and agree to share rights

The IMG agency’s college sports division, IMG College, has agreed a 12-year multimedia and commercial partnership with West Virginia University in the US.