Canada

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport, which is owned by Qatari pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera, has furthered its reach in the Canadian market by agreeing a carriage deal with pay-television operator Cox Communications.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN and French-language sister network RDS have signed a multi-year extension to their long-term programming agreement with the ESPN International arm of US sports broadcaster ESPN.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport, which is owned by Qatari pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera, is set to launch on Canadian cable and satellite television after securing a strategic and exclusive partnership with media company Ethnic Channels Group.

Bell has extended and expanded a media rights deal for American football’s NFL that will allow the Canadian telecommunications company to show more games than ever before.

EBU deal with US ski federation will increase exposure for ski events in the country

Massive Rogers deal for NHL rights in Canada shows how much pay-TV fears the ‘cord-cutters’

The Canadian Paralympic Committee has acquired the broadcast rights to the Sochi 2014 Paralympic winter Games and Rio 2016 summer Paralympic Games.

The European Tour golf organisation has extended its association with the Golf Channel by signing a new 10-year rights deal with the US pay-television broadcaster.

The NFL American football league has agreed a multi-year deal with digital sports video news agency SendtoNews for video distribution rights in Canada.

Canadian broadcast group Asian Television Network has signed five-year broadcast rights deals with four major international cricket boards.

Telecommunications company Bell has added its pay-television channel Sportsnet to the Bell Mobile TV service in Canada.

Canadian multilingual broadcaster OMNI Television will provide an exclusive Mandarin-language broadcast of today’s (Thursday) Toronto Blue Jays game at the Boston Red Sox – the first time an MLB baseball game has been shown in Mandarin in Canada.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN and French-language sister network RDS have signed a new 10-year rights agreement, from 2014 to 2023, with Hockey Canada, the governing body of ice hockey in the country.

The IMG Media agency has been appointed by the Grands Prix Cyclistes de Québec et de Montréal (GPCQM) organisation to distribute the media rights for the 2013 editions of cycling’s UCI WorldTour one-day races in Québec City and Montréal in Canada.

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet has acquired rights for the next edition of the Ultimate Fighter mixed martial arts series, which will feature Canadian fighters for the first time.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN and French-language sister network RDS have agreed an exclusive multi-year broadcast rights deal with Rugby Canada.