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Athletics

International media and entertainment company Discovery Communications and its pan-European sports broadcaster, Eurosport, have unveiled a new partnership opportunity for mobile operators to deliver content from the Olympic Games.
Multi-sport

The International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Channel has agreed content partnerships with a further eight sports governing bodies.

Formula One has moved to relax restrictions on providing video content via social media platforms as the motor racing series seeks to open up under the stewardship of its new owner, US mass media company Liberty Media.
American Football

The IMG agency has signed a four-season extension to its in-flight rights deal with the NFL American football league.
Athletics

The USA Track and Field national governing body has signed a four-year partnership with the Penn Relays which will grant the US athletics showpiece enhanced media exposure.

North American stock car-racing series Nascar has launched its first digital subscription product developed specifically for the international market.
Baseball

Social media platform Facebook is in “advanced talks” over live streaming rights to Major League Baseball games, according to Reuters.
Athletics

Two recent media-rights deals agreed by USA Track & Field, the governing body for US athletics, continue the upturn in commercial fortunes of an organisation which nearly went bust in the 1990s.
Football

English Premier League football club Manchester United has launched a subscription-based application that will allow its in-house television channel, MUTV, to be available worldwide.
Basketball

North America’s NBA basketball league has announced plans to expand virtual reality coverage of games through its partnership with broadcast technology company NextVR.
Multi-sport

Social media platform Facebook has said it will launch a video app for televisions as it continues to increase its focus on video content.
Multi-sport

The European division of media company Liberty Global has posted an 18.1-per-cent increase in operating income to $2.482bn (€2.33bn) on the back of a 24.5-per-cent rise in subscribers to 946,100 in the 2016 financial year.
Multi-sport

Sports media and technology company Minute Media has closed a $15m (€14.1m) investment round, bringing its total funding since its inception in 2011 to $60m.
Olympics

The International Olympic Committee has announced that its Olympic Channel digital platform is now available in six additional languages.
Multi-sport

Discovery Communications chief executive David Zaslav has said the strategy for the media and entertainment company’s international sports channel, Eurosport, is for it to “always be profitable”.
Olympics

The International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Channel has agreed to broadcast live coverage of the 2017 Winter European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF).
Athletics

The Lagardère Sports agency has struck a deal to distribute the USA Track & Field body’s international media rights.

Tata Communications has been appointed as the exclusive video-distribution partner of the MotoGP and Superbike World Championships.