Americas

US media and technology corporation Comcast has agreed a $16.7 billion (€12.5

A trial over a claim by US pay-television provider Dish Network that cable-television sports broadcaster ESPN breached a carriage contract by offering better deals to rival distributors has started in…

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet has acquired regional rights for games featuring the Vancouver Canucks NHL ice hockey team

US broadcaster Fox has added five more competitions to its broadcast rights partnership with Concacaf, the governing body of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean

Canadian telecommunications company Shaw Communications has agreed a five-year broadcast rights deal with golf’s US PGA Tour which will run through 2018.

Media conglomerate News Corporation will unveil its new US national sports channels to advertisers in early March in an effort to attract viewers and advertisers from sports broadcaster ESPN, according…

The International Judo Federation, the sport’s global governing body, has awarded media rights to pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport in France and Esporte Interativo, the Brazilian free-to-air sports b…

Ben Speight, head of SportBusiness Intelligence, analyses how TV audiences for this year’s NFL Super Bowl are down on both sides of the Atlantic T

Digital sports video news agency SendtoNews has agreed a multi-year digital video distribution deal with the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), the leading professional tour in women’s golf.

US Spanish-language cable-television broadcaster Mega TV has acquired local broadcast rights for games featuring Major League Soccer franchise the Houston Dynamo

Argentinian agency Torneos y Competencias has launched Sport Plus, a new pay-television sports channel in Brazil

US cable-television broadcaster NBC Sports Network has acquired rights for the World Series of Fighting mixed martial arts series in a three-year deal, from 2013 to 2015

US network CBS’s live coverage of the NFL’s American football Super Bowl game on Sunday attracted an average of 108.4 million viewers in the country, according to audience measurement company Nielsen.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN is set to extend a domestic rights deal for the Canadian Football League, the country’s top gridiron division, according to the Globe and Mail newspaper.

North American sports broadcaster Premium Sports has extended a deal with Ustream to allow the video-sharing platform to show live coverage of the Six Nations international rugby union championship and…

US cable-television sports broadcaster ESPN has acquired English-language rights for the Mexico national football team’s home matches.