Americas

Football

US network NBC will provide live coverage of 20 games from the Premier League next season as part of parent company NBCUniversal’s three-year rights deal, from 2013-14 to 2015-16, for the top division o…
Football

Fox Soccer, the football-dedicated pay-television channel that is operated by US network Fox, has acquired rights for a new summer club tournament featuring some of world football’s leading clubs.

West Virginia University in the US will launch a new rights sales process for a package of its athletic events after a review by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey found that there were “significant e…

The Southeastern Conference college sports competition in the US will announce the launch of a new channel on Tuesday in partnership with pay-television broadcaster ESPN, according to the Associated Press…
American Football

The NBC Sports division of US media company NBCUniversal has acquired rights for the Bayou Classic American football college game

US media company NBCUniversal has announced that it will provide live digital streaming of all of its leading sports properties, including the NBC Sports Network and Golf Channel pay-television channels
Boxing

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has signed a rights extension with boxing promotional company Golden Boy in a deal that will lead to the creation of a new Monday night boxing slot on its soon-to-be-launched…

Internet video technology provider NeuLion has agreed a deal with the Pac-12 to create a digital video service for the US conference’s member universities.
Football

US regional sports network Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic has signed a new rights deal with Major League Soccer club DC United. The agreement will run for three years, from 2013 to 2015
Curling

Pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has extended its exclusive rights deal in Canada for the World Curling Championships
Basketball

US pay-television broadcaster ESPN has extended a rights deal for the Women’s NBA basketball league in North America. The extension covers six seasons, from 2017 to 2022.
Football

Fox has confirmed that Fox Soccer, the US network’s football-dedicated pay-television channel, will close later this year to be replaced by a general entertainment channel.
Football

Carlos Slim’s América Móvil acquired the media rights in Latin America, outside Brazil, for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games Carlos Slim. Is

Digital sports media company Perform has established a joint venture with American City Business Journals (ACBJ), the publisher of the Sporting News service, to target the US and Canadian markets
Basketball

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS has extended a rights deal for men’s basketball games in the soon-to-be-renamed Big East college sports conference.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has renewed rights for the MotoGP motorcycling championship in a multi-year deal that begins with the 2013 campaign
American Football

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS will retain rights to all Naval Academy home American football games even though the US Navy is becoming a member of the Big East college sports conference, which…

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has agreed an extension to its domestic rights deal with the Canadian Football League, the country’s top division of gridiron.