Americas

US Olympic Committee chairman Larry Probst and chief executive Scott Blackmun will hold further talks with the International Olympic Committee tomorrow over a new broadcast and sponsorship revenue-sharing…
Baseball

The Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball team agreed yesterday to honour its existing broadcast partnership with US network Fox

US network NBC will provide 3D coverage of the Olympic Games for the first time after agreeing a partnership with television manufacturer Panasonic covering the London 2012 Games
Athletics

US media group Disney acquired the rights to the New York City Marathon in a five-year deal, from 2012 to 2016, that will have the event shown live on national television for the first time in almost 20…
Basketball

The Fox Sports International media company agreed a multi-year deal to provide at least 250 hours of live US college sports programming per year to Canadian cable-television sports channel The Score

Sports and entertainment investment company Evolution Media Capital linked up with private investment company Nala to form Nala EMC, an investment banking and advisory company for the Latin American market
Football

Leading Ecuadorian football clubs vowed to fight “until the end” to prevent the Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol, the country’s football federation, from centralising the sale of league rights from 20…
Football

Fifa, football’s world governing body, refuted its former vice-president Jack Warner’s claim that he was allowed to purchase World Cup television rights at a nominal cost in return for helping Fifa pre…
American Football

Lagardère Unlimited, the sports marketing division of French conglomerate Lagardère, acquired Gaylord Sports Management, a US-based athlete representation group.

IMG Media was appointed as exclusive global television distributor of the motorsports events run by Feld Motor Sports, including the Monster Energy Supercross, an FIM-sanctioned off-road motorcycle racing…
American Football

The average US television audience for a regular-season NFL match in 2011-12 fell by 2.1 per cent year on-year to 17.5 million, according to audience measurement company Nielsen Media Research
American Football

Esporte Interativo, the Brazilian free-to-air sports broadcaster, acquired rights for the NFL Super Bowl in a two-year deal, covering the 2012 and 2013 matches. The deal was brokered by the IMG agency
Golf

US pay-television broadcaster the Golf Channel had an average of 90,000 viewers at any given time last year, a record for the channel, according to audience measurement company Nielsen Media Research

Media conglomerate Walt Disney Company extended a deal for its pay-television sports broadcast subsidiary ESPN and other channels to be carried by media company Comcast’s cable-television service in a…
Ice Hockey

The NHL Winter Classic game on January 2 between the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers attracted the fifth-largest US television audience for a regular-season ice hockey match since 1975
American Football

The University of Oklahoma is close to a carriage deal with the Fox Sports Oklahoma and Fox Sports Southwest US regional cable and satellite broadcasters which will put the university’s sports network i…
Football

Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner tarnished his own credibility as well as that of football’s world governing body when he claimed last week that he was allowed to purchase World Cup television r…
American Football

NBC sold out advertising spots for its coverage of this year’s NFL Super Bowl game on February 5 for a record average fee, according to Seth Winter, senior vice-president of sales and marketing at the U…