Americas

Rugby Union

Rugby Canada, rugby union’s governing body in Canada, has agreed a video rights distribution deal with digital sports video news agency SendtoNews.

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet has acquired domestic rights to the IndyCar motor-racing series
Football

US cable-television operator Time Warner Cable has acquired regional rights for Major League Soccer matches featuring FC Dallas. The deal will run for at least one year, until the end of 2013
American Football

The Big East US college sports conference has struck a rights deal with incumbent rights-holder ESPN and will also seal a renewal with US network CBS, according to the ESPN.com website

US pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has acquired rights for the Superbike World Championship motorcycling series

US cable-television operator Cablevision Systems will begin charging subscribers an additional $2.98 (€2.23) per month to cover increasing costs associated with sports programming.
Cricket

IOC carves out five more Asian markets to handle in-house and further weaken ABU rights; Frustrated Barton blasts ABU
Football

IMG may not be for sale. But the industry is assuming otherwise
Football

Santa Mónica seeks refund for centralised Spain matches
Football

Saran brothers sports-rights ambitions expand beyond Turkey; Perform and IMG take different routes to crack Turkish market; Super Lig deal probed

The Argentinian government has announced the launch of a new free-to-air television channel dedicated to sport. The high-definition channel, DeporTV, is available nationwide

The Comité Olímpico Dominicano, the national Olympic committee in the Dominican Republic, has agreed a deal with state broadcaster CERTV to launch a new free-to-air sports television channel, according t…
Boxing

Mayweather Promotions, the promotional agency that represents top boxer Floyd Mayweather Junior, has agreed a rights deal with Showtime and the US pay-per-view broadcaster’s parent company, the CBS network.
Cricket

Neo Broadcast America, a subsidiary of the Nimbus Communications agency’s Neo Sports Broadcast division, has been sold to North American cricket pay-television broadcaster Willow TV.
Baseball

The Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball franchise is set to decide against renewing a long-running partnership with local broadcast rights-holder WGN-TV, according to the Chicago Tribune newspaper
American Football

US cable-television sports broadcaster ESPN has been given the chance to match the offer from the NBC Sports division of the NBC network for the rights to US college sports conference the Big East, according…
Baseball

Asia-focused sports broadcaster One World Sports has acquired North American rights for games featuring the Yomiuri Giants, Japan’s most popular and successful baseball team.
Football

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