Americas

Football

Al Jazeera stocks up in US ahead of channel launch
Football

US-based fans of English Premier League football will be offered unprecedented coverage of the final day of the season, with nine of the 10 scheduled games being broadcast live simultaneously across the…
Football

Full Play with full hand
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Pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has increased its subscriber base significantly in Colombia since the start of the year due to its coverage of the country’s top-tier football league, Liga Postobon.
Football

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet renewed it rights deal with Uefa, European football’s governing body, for the Europa League, for the three years from 2012-13 to 2014-15.
Rugby Union

The NFL Network, the pay-television broadcaster owned by American football league the NFL, acquired rights in the US for the 2013 Professional Rugby Sevens series in a deal with promoter Grand Prix Entertainment
Football

US broadcaster Fox has extended its rights deal with the Australian A-League, Australia’s top-tier football league, for three years, from 2013 to 2015.
Football

North American pay-television channel Gol TV acquired rights to the Argentina national team’s friendly matches until 2014, in a deal with rights-holders the Full Play Group.
Ice Hockey

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC is considering dropping its NHL ice hockey rights as a cost-cutting measure, according to the Hollywood Reporter website
Football

Pay-television broadcaster DirecTV Latin America acquired rights to this summer’s Euro 2012 football tournament.
Australian Rules Football

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired exclusive rights in the UK, Ireland, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa for the Australian Football League, the country’s top Aussie rules championship, in a three y…
Ice Hockey

US regional sports network Fox Sports Carolinas extended its rights deal with NHL ice hockey side Carolina Hurricanes in a multi-year agreement for all matches not shown nationally by the league’s rights-holders.
Basketball

US cable-television broadcaster Turner Broadcasting System and the CBS Sports website have generated approximately $60 million (€45.1

Media conglomerate News Corporation is taking steps towards launching a national US cable-television sports channel, according to Bloomberg
Football

Fox Sports, a division of US broadcaster Fox, agreed a carriage deal with Net, Brazil’s largest cable-television operator, for its recently-launched pay-television channel Fox Sports Brasil.
Golf

US pay-television broadcaster the Golf Channel renewed its exclusive rights deal for the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first major of the season in the women’s game, for a further three years, from 2…
Baseball

The Guggenheim Baseball Management consortium agreed a deal to acquire Major League Baseball franchise the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2 billion (€1.5

Motor racing series the American Drag Racing League will stream its events live for free during its 2012 season