Canada

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has acquired rights for the Canadian Football League gridiron competition.

TSN has sealed a rights deal with the Canada Basketball national governing body that will allow the Canadian pay-television broadcaster to show coverage of the Canada men’s and women’s national teams.

Canadian broadcast group Asian Television Network has acquired exclusive rights for the Bangladesh v India cricket series.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcasters TSN and RDS have agreed a three-year extension to their rights deals with the Canadian Football League.

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet has renewed a broadcast and multimedia rights deal for the Rogers Cup tennis tournament.

Broadcast platforms from Italy, Canada, Japan, Russia and Germany have agreed deals to provide coverage of the International Paralympic Committee’s 2015 Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A-Pool.

World football’s governing body Fifa has said the 2015 Women’s World Cup will receive the biggest and most advanced broadcast production for a women’s football tournament when it takes place in Canada later this year.

SRO Motorsports Group, promoter of the GT Series, has sealed a number of new rights deals ahead of the start of the 2015 season of the motor racing championship.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcasters TSN and RDS trebled their rights fee and their guarantees for coverage of French Open tennis in last week’s renewal.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN and French-language sister channel RDS have agreed a multi-year extension to a rights deal for the French Open tennis grand slam.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the country’s media regulator, has dismissed a complaint by Bell Media that rival telecommunications company Rogers is unfairly offering exclusive access to its GamePlus mobile application.

Canadian telecommunications company Bell Media has launched an appeal against the decision of the country’s media regulator to ban the substitution of Canadian advertising over US advertising during major sporting events such as the NFL American football league’s Super Bowl.

The IPC Alpine Skiing division of the International Paralympic Committee has said it will provide live streaming of the 2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships, which take place in Panorama, Canada from February 28 to March 10.

The resurrected World Cup of Hockey will join the National Hockey League on pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet in Canada following a deal agreed late last month.

Fifa, football’s global governing body, has renewed rights deals with the Fox network and pay-television broadcaster Telemundo in the US and with telecommunications company Bell Media in Canada.

Canadian telecommunications company Rogers Communications has acquired broadcast rights to the 2016 World Cup of Hockey national team ice hockey tournament, according to the Globe and Mail.