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The next cycle of domestic rights to the US college sports conference the Big East will be opened up to the market after sports broadcaster ESPN failed to reach a deal with the operators of the conference,…

ESPN-Fox team up for Americas Premier League bids and make a strong start in Brazil

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Globo strengthens grip on league

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Bernie hopes NBC can deliver bigger US platform for F1

TF1 pays big increase to hang on to Rugby World Cup

MLB Network, the pay-television broadcaster operated by North America’s Major League Baseball, has acquired exclusive US rights for the 2013 and 2017 editions of the World Baseball Classic national team t…

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN has acquired exclusive rights in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for ice hockey’s American Hockey League, a feeder league to the National Hockey League, for t…

Brazilian media group Globo has sold out its sponsorship inventory for its coverage of the 2013 Formula One motor-racing championship

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has renewed its deal with US sports broadcaster ESPN, for a further three years, from 2013 to 2015

The English Premier League has set a deadline of Friday, October 26 for second-round bids in the sales process for its next cycle of rights in the US, according to the Multichannel news website

US sports broadcaster Fox Sports has renewed its deal with the Automobile Racing Club of America for the rights to the Arca racing series in a multi-year agreement beginning in 2013

US network Fox and cable-television broadcaster ESPN tabled a joint bid by yesterday’s deadline in the sales process for the next cycle of US rights to the English Premier League, the top division of f…

US cable-television broadcaster ESPN is close to a media rights deal with the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) for coverage of six of the governing body’s national team tournaments, according t…

Indian online video service iStream.com has acquired exclusive internet rights for the Campeonato Série A, the top-tier Brazilian football league, in a deal with the Total Sports Asia agency.

Francis Tellier, the chief executive of Host Broadcast Services (HBS), the host broadcaster of the 2014 Fifa World Cup, has said that his company’s production costs for the tournament will increase by 4…

The NBC Sports division of US media group NBCUniversal has struck a four-year deal, from 2013 to 2016, for the exclusive US media rights to the Formula One motor-racing championship