Canada

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet renewed it rights deal with Uefa, European football’s governing body, for the Champions League, for three years, from 2012-13 to 2014-15.

Internet company Yahoo is interested in bidding for the rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games in Canada, although it has not yet put together a formal offer, according to Canadian newspaper the Globe…

Eurosport hangs on to French and US Opens - but at a price

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Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC cancelled its deal to broadcast the country’s Grand Slam curling circuit to leave the series without a domestic broadcast partner just days before its next event.

North American pay-television channel Gol TV agreed a three-year deal, from 2012 to 2014, with the Kentaro agency for rights in the US and Canada to a number of international football matches, including…

The International Olympic Committee rejected a joint bid of C$70 million (€54 million/$69 million) from Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC and telco Bell for the rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic G…

TSN, the Canadian sports broadcaster majority-owned by the Bell Media group, renewed its rights for the Australian Open tennis tournament in a 10-year deal, from 2012 to 2021, with Tennis Australia, the…

American Football: US networks CBS, Fox and NBC acquired rights for the NFL in nine-year deals, from 2014-15 to 2022-23, worth a combined $3.1bn (€2.4bn) per year.

Football: Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals with pan-European broadcaster Eurosport and US network Fox for rights to the Club World Cup.

Fifa maintains free-to-air commitments for 2018-2022; Five markets, but no rights, carved out of European tender

American Football: The NFL Network, the pay-television broadcaster owned by the NFL, agreed a content deal with Outcast, operators of a petrol station digital TV network with 12,000 screens in stations…

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

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

The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, Canada’s telecommunications watchdog, ruled that Bell must allow rival telco Telus to stream sports content that is currently only available t…

Canadian cable-television sports channel The Score acquired exclusive rights for Fifa’s Club World Cup in a one-tournament deal for the 2011 edition, which kicks off tomorrow in Japan.