Canada

American Football

French-language Canadian pay-television network TVA Sports has agreed a four-year rights deal, from 2013-14 to 2016-17, with American football’s NFL.

Golf

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has signed a multi-year extension to its broadcast rights deal with golf’s US PGA Tour.

Football

Major League Soccer has announced a multi-year partnership with Microsoft to promote its Windows 8 platform.

Lacrosse

Major League Lacrosse, the sport’s top league in North America, has struck a deal with YouTube to make games available on a live basis via the video-sharing website.
Cricket

The England and Wales Cricket Board has agreed a rights deal in North America and the Caribbean with digital sports media company Perform
Curling

Pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has extended its exclusive rights deal in Canada for the World Curling Championships

Digital sports media company Perform has established a joint venture with American City Business Journals (ACBJ), the publisher of the Sporting News service, to target the US and Canadian markets

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has agreed an extension to its domestic rights deal with the Canadian Football League, the country’s top division of gridiron.
Cycling

Rai pays less for Giro rights and more for production, but the real money will be made abroad
Rugby Union

Rugby Canada, rugby union’s governing body in Canada, has agreed a video rights distribution deal with digital sports video news agency SendtoNews.

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet has acquired domestic rights to the IndyCar motor-racing series
Cricket

Neo Broadcast America, a subsidiary of the Nimbus Communications agency’s Neo Sports Broadcast division, has been sold to North American cricket pay-television broadcaster Willow TV.
Ice Hockey

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet has acquired regional rights for games featuring the Vancouver Canucks NHL ice hockey team
Golf

Canadian telecommunications company Shaw Communications has agreed a five-year broadcast rights deal with golf’s US PGA Tour which will run through 2018.
American Football

Ben Speight, head of SportBusiness Intelligence, analyses how TV audiences for this year’s NFL Super Bowl are down on both sides of the Atlantic T
American Football

US network CBS’s live coverage of the NFL’s American football Super Bowl game on Sunday attracted an average of 108.4 million viewers in the country, according to audience measurement company Nielsen.
American Football

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN is set to extend a domestic rights deal for the Canadian Football League, the country’s top gridiron division, according to the Globe and Mail newspaper.
Gaelic Sports

North American sports broadcaster Premium Sports has extended a deal with Ustream to allow the video-sharing platform to show live coverage of the Six Nations international rugby union championship and…