Americas
Serie A doubles its money with Fox in Latin America
Serie A makes the most of heated Latin American market
Tenfield offer under threat from new rights manoeuvre
Federation gives up control of club rights to leave Tenfield in limbo over improved offer
Two leagues ‘too much’ for emerging Indian market
'One league good, two leagues bad' for embryonic Indian football market, says IMG
ESPN beats Fox to FA rights
ESPN beats Fox to FA content
ESPN and DirecTV team up to win Liga rights in Latin America
Competition in Brazil helps Spanish Liga net 70% increase
Top Ecuadorian clubs in battle with federation
Battle heats up in Ecuador over rights centralisation scheme
Traffic and Full Play both selling Copa 2015 rights
Traffic fails with first injunction but pushes on with Copa sales
Big three players at the crossroads after changes at the top
Agencies at the crossroads
NBC attracts record online US audience for Super Bowl
The NBC network’s first-ever live stream of the NFL American football Super Bowl attracted 2.1
Super Bowl breaks US television audience record for third year running
Live coverage of this year’s NFL American football Super Bowl game gave US network NBC the largest average audience for a programme in the history of US television, according to audience measurement c…
US prosecutors seize pirate websites
US prosecutors seized 16 websites that illegally stream live sports and pay-per-view events, and charged a man with running nine of them, ahead of the American football NFL Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday
NBC sells out online ad space ahead of streamed Super Bowl
US network NBC has sold out its digital advertising inventory ahead of the first live online streaming of the NFL’s Super Bowl.
Alterna’TV gets Caribbean Series baseball rights
US and Latin American broadcaster Alterna'TV acquired exclusive rights in Puerto Rico for baseball’s Caribbean Series in a three-year deal, from 2012 to 2014.
CBS to show new ice hockey conference
CBS Sports Network, the cable sports channel of US network CBS, acquired rights for ice hockey’s National Collegiate Hockey Conference in a multi-year deal from the inaugural 2013-14 season onwards.
US sports broadcast ad spend increases
Sports programming on US television attracted $10.9 billion (€8.6 billion) in advertising expenditure in the year to the end of September 2011, up 5.9 per cent from $10.3
Pitch’s confidence in English football provides boost for FA
FA up in Europe despite weaker rights package and recession
Difficult year ahead in Europe
Eurozone crisis not the only challenge facing sports rights agencies in 2012