Americas
Ustream acquires Arena Football League rights
The Ustream website acquired rights for US indoor American football league the Arena Football League in a two-year deal covering the 2012 and 2013 seasons
Ustream expands relationship with Universal Sports Network
The Ustream website agreed a deal with Universal Sports Network to stream the US sports broadcaster’s live coverage of several sporting events, including the 2012 alpine skiing World Cup and the Sevens W…
IMG secures live internet deal for first World Snowboarding Championships
US video-sharing website Livestream acquired exclusive live internet rights for the inaugural World Snowboarding Championships in a deal with the IMG agency
NFL defends broadcast blackouts as FCC deadline passes
American football’s National Football League defended the broadcast blackout rule in a filing to the Federal Communications Commission, the country’s media regulator. Th
NBC Sports Network signs its first NCAA conference deal
NBC Sports Network, the cable-television sports channel of US network NBC, agreed an exclusive five-year deal with the Colonial Athletic Association, for rights to American football and basketball matches…
Eurosport pays big to save grand slams but plays it cool with WTA
Eurosport hangs on to French and US Opens - but at a price
Boxing rights deal for US broadcaster Wealth TV
US cable-television channel Wealth TV acquired exclusive rights to the WBC Continental Americas Lightweight title boxing bout between Chris Howard and Arash Usnamee in Georgia in the US on March 17
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