Americas

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has sealed an eight-year rights extension, from 2015 to 2022, for coverage of the Nascar motor-racing series
Cricket

BT Vision ambitions shake up UK rights market
Boxing

US pay-per-view platform Integrated Sports Media has acquired the rights for the super middleweight world title boxing bout between belt holder Carl Froch and challenger Yusaf Mack next month

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has agreed a multi-year rights deal to show Baylor University’s sports events.

Digital media company Perform has agreed a deal to provide its ePlayer sports video-on-demand service to more than 100 of the Gannett media company’s digital media platforms in the US, including USA T…

International Speedway Corporation (ISC), the owner of Nascar’s race tracks in North America, expects the sales process for the next cycle of domestic rights for the motor-racing series to be finalised b…
Baseball

North America’s Major League Baseball has agreed new eight-year rights deals, from 2014 to 2021, with US network Fox and cable-television broadcaster Turner Broadcasting System.
Ice Hockey

Russian ice hockey league the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) has announced a one-year rights deal covering the 2012-13 season with sports broadcaster ESPN in North America and the UK
Basketball

US college sports conference the Atlantic 10 has agreed a new nine-year rights deal, from 2012-13 to 2020-21, with the NBCUniversal media group and new eight-year rights agreements, from 2013-14 to 2020-21,…
Golf

The thrilling final day of the Ryder Cup golf tournament on Sunday in Illinois, the US, attracted the event’s highest preliminary viewing figures in the US for 13 years, according to the NBC network.
Football

The Premier League chose to start its international sales in the Americas with good reason: bidding wars are expected in the US and Brazil

Wrestling

US online streaming service Hulu Plus has agreed an exclusive multi-year deal with the WWE wrestling organisation to stream all its television shows and some of its online series
Baseball

North America’s Major League Baseball is close to renewing rights deals with US network Fox and cable-television broadcaster Turner Broadcasting System, according to the Wall Street Journal newspaper.
Ice Hockey

US ice hockey competition the Central Hockey League has sold its internet coverage rights to online sports video portal America One Sports in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Cricket

Deal in Australia takes ESS over $100m profit threshold for global ICC rights sales

Football

Brazilian internet company Terra, owned by the Telefónica Group, has acquired broadband rights for the Russian Premier League, the top-tier domestic league in Russia.
American Football

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has sealed a 10-year broadcast partnership with the University of Oklahoma and agreed rights deals with fellow Big 12 sports conference colleges Texas Tech University…
Football

YouTube football deals good timing for Premier League