Americas
WBBZ secures ACC American football rights
US regional television broadcaster WBBZ-TV has acquired rights to American football games from college sport’s Atlantic Coast Conference ahead of the 2013 season.
Fox Sports Brasil to broadcast World Cup in its entirety
Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Brasil has announced that it will provide live coverage of all 64 games of the 2014 Fifa World Cup and will launch a second channel next year.
NBC Sports Network to push rebranding through Premier League coverage
NBC Sports Network, the cable-television sports channel of US network NBC, will use its coverage of English Premier League football to promote its NBCSN rebranding.
IEC broadens coverage of fishing championship
The IEC in Sports agency has announced rights deals for the 2013 World Fly Fishing Championship with pay-television broadcasters in Croatia, Israel and Chile.
MMA won’t return to Showtime before end of year
Showtime will not be able to provide coverage of mixed martial arts again until 2014, according to the US pay-per-view broadcaster’s executive vice-president Stephen Espinoza.
Fox Sports 1 in talks to expand reach for launch
Fox Sports 1, the new US pay-television channel from the Fox Sports division of the Fox network, remains in talks to seal carriage deals with pay-television operators Time Warner Cable, DirecTV and Dish ahead of its launch on August 17, according to the Bloomberg news agency.
Fox adds to motorsport portfolio with United SportsCar rights
The International Motor Sports Association has agreed a five-year multimedia rights deal with the Fox Sports division of US network Fox for coverage of the United SportsCar Racing series until 2018.
Fox Sports 2 launch confirmed
US cable-television channel Fuel TV has confirmed it will be rebranded as Fox Sports 2 on August 17 to coincide with the launch of Fox Sports 1, the new pay-television channel from the Fox Sports division of the Fox network.
Fox Sports 1 gains horse racing rights ahead of launch date
US horse racing organisation the Jockey Club has agreed a multi-year rights deal with the Fox Sports division of the Fox network.
U.S. Open switches to Fox under new USGA deal
The United States Golf Association has agreed a 12-year deal with the Fox Sports division of US network Fox for the broadcast rights to the U.S. Open, U.S. Women’s Open and U.S. Senior Open Championships.
ESPN and OSN convert World Club 7s deals
Premiership Rugby, the commercial rights-holder and organiser of the World Club 7s rugby union tournament, has agreed two new broadcast deals for the inaugural edition of the event.
Pierce to lead Lagardère Unlimited’s North American arm
Andy Pierce has been appointed as president and chief executive of the North American platform of media, publishing and defence conglomerate Lagardère’s sports division, Lagardère Unlimited.
NFL’s Browns sign local television partnership
NFL American football franchise the Cleveland Browns have agreed a new multi-year television deal with local cable television partner SportsTime Ohio.
SMU agrees Learfield Sports partnership
The Learfield Sports agency has agreed a seven-year deal with US college South Methodist University for the multimedia rights to its Mustang athletics teams.
Nascar builds on NBCU deal with Fox Sports extension
The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has extended and expanded its multi-platform rights agreement with the Nascar motor-racing series for two additional seasons beyond 2022.
SNY and Cosmos score programming agreement
US cable television channel One World Sports, the broadcast rights holder for New York Cosmos football games, has entered into a distribution agreement with regional US sports cable broadcaster SportsNet New York.
CPL boasts global reach for inaugural edition
Organisers of the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament have confirmed broadcasters in India, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean and the US will cover the inaugural event.
NBC Sports partners with Cowboys in new broadcast initiative
The NBC Sports division of US media group NBCUniversal has announced a partnership with the Dallas Cowboys NFL American football team and the Replay Technologies company to introduce a groundbreaking broadcast initiative for games at the Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium.