Canada

Bell Media-owned Canadian pay-television broadcasters TSN and RDS have launched new OTT platforms ahead of their coverage of national team football tournament the Fifa World Cup.

Uefa has earned a decent increase in the value of its club competition rights in Canada via a deal with Perform-owned streaming platform DAZN.

DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports media company Perform, has acquired exclusive rights in Canada for football’s Uefa Champions League and Europa League.

Major League Baseball has entered into a licensing and original content partnership with SI TV, the OTT streaming service of sports media platform Sports Illustrated.

The World Surf League has extended its rights deal with the CBS Sports division of US network CBS and has agreed a new partnership with Bleacher Report Live, the OTT sports service from media company Turner.

North American basketball league the NBA has today (Thursday) signed a multi-year partnership with Perform that will see the digital sports content and media group manage the organisation’s official websites in more than 15 international markets.

Cable and satellite-television broadcaster Velocity has acquired rights in the US and Canada to the World Endurance Championship motor-racing series.

Social video platform Twitch has enhanced its ties to North American basketball league the NBA by agreeing to become its first media rights partner for esports competition the NBA 2K League.

Pan-American pay-television broadcaster GolTV has launched its new GolTV Play OTT service in Canada.

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC has agreed a sublicensing deal with DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports media company Perform, for rights to this year’s Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

The digital division of North American basketball league the NBA has confirmed landmark plans to allow fans to purchase and watch live games in-progress at a reduced price.

North America’s Major League Soccer has signed a wide-ranging streaming partnership with social media company Twitter.

DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports-media company Perform, has agreed a carriage deal in Canada for Major League Soccer’s MLS Live out-of-marketing streaming package, while it has also signed a rights partnership with Pac-12 Networks, the content and multi-platform media company for the Pac-12 US college sports conference.

Perform-owned OTT platform DAZN has acquired exclusive Commonwealth Games rights in Canada as it bids to widen its subscriber base by adding more locally-relevant content.

US telco Verizon has agreed a wide-ranging media-rights partnership with the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf).

DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports media company Perform, has acquired rights in Canada to the upcoming edition of the Commonwealth Games multi-sport event, which will be held in Gold Coast, Australia.