Americas

Tennis

US sports broadcaster ESPN is in talks to acquire all domestic rights to the US Open tennis tournament.

Cycling

Amaury Sport Organisation does an early deal to renew its domestic rights deal for the Tour de France with French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions, taking advantage of the weakness of its commercial rivals.

Tennis

Qatari pay-television operator Al Jazeera has denied it is interested in acquiring Tennis Channel, the US pay-television broadcaster
Football

Brazilian free-to-air broadcaster Esporte Interativo has acquired rights for the Campeonato Paraibano, the regional football league in the state of Paraíba, Brazil.

The CBS Sports Network pay-television channel, which is operated by US network CBS, has acquired rights to the AMA Pro Road Racing motorcycling series
American Football

The Denver Broncos NFL American football franchise has agreed a media rights deal with local pay-television broadcaster Kusa TV
Lacrosse

Major League Lacrosse, the sport’s top league in North America, has struck a deal with YouTube to make games available on a live basis via the video-sharing website.

US college sports organisation the Atlantic Coast Conference has agreed a deal that will allow the league to retain the media rights to any university that leaves the conference
Football

Olympics deal part of Slim plan to expand media empire in Latin America through top sport

Football

World Cup rights fee falls in Nigeria but increases in sub-Saharan Africa as Fifa keeps faith with AUB and Octagon

Football

Broadcasters worried by Pitch and MP & Silva joint venture but rivals say it's business as usual

Football

Aggressive Fox poses threat t Sport1 future in the Netherlands

Cycling

ASO, IMG and Infront all have big cycling ambitions. That could be bad news for UK's SweetSpot

American Football

The NBC Sports division of US media company NBCUniversal and the University of Notre Dame have agreed a 10-year rights extension, from 2016 to 2025
Football

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has struck a rights deal for the new National Women’s Soccer League in North America.
Cricket

The England and Wales Cricket Board has agreed a rights deal in North America and the Caribbean with digital sports media company Perform
Martial Arts

The CBS Sports Network pay-television channel, which is operated by US network CBS, has acquired rights for the Glory kickboxing series
Baseball

DirecTV Sports Networks, a division of US pay-television provider DirecTV, has agreed a deal to sell a majority stake in its regional sports channel, Root Sports Northwest, to Major League Baseball franchise…