North America

Basketball

The NBA is extending its move into micro-payments by reportedly making League Pass games available for purchase by the quarter. Games which cost $6.99 will be on offer for $4.
Football

Streaming platform DAZN has reportedly picked up rights to the English Premier League from 2019-20, taking over from incumbent telco Bell
Football

Approximately 10,000 American soccer fans applied to participate in the Premier League Mornings Live fan fest – a joint commercial venture between NBC Sports and the Premier League – in Manhattan on Sat…
Football

Fox will use cameras on corner flags for Saturday's MLS Cup final as part of a 26-camera set-up at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta
Football

Spanish-language sports broadcaster Telemundo Deportes has acquired rights in the US to the second leg of football’s Copa Libertadores final between Argentine Primera División rivals River Plate and Bo…

ESPN will launch the "ACC [Atlantic Coast Conference] Network", a linear channel that will be available on cable and satellite systems with live programming on August 22, 2019
Horse Racing

The New York Racing Association has signed a long-term extension to its partnership with US sports broadcaster Fox Sports
Baseball

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has suggested the league could participate in the bidding process for the 22 Regional Sports Networks that are being divested as part of the asset takeover deal between Disney…
American Football

The NFL has reported a rise in domestic television ratings for the 2018 regular season so far, following two years of decline. Through the first 12 weeks of play, the NFL said games are averaging 15.

John Skipper, the executive chairman of DAZN Group, has said its eponymous streaming platform will look to integrate new advertising models into its US service in the coming months as it seeks more rights…
American Football

ABC will join sister Disney-owned channel ESPN and the NFL Network in providing live prime-time coverage of the 2019 NFL Draft
Golf

Coverage of the Phil Mickelson-Tiger Woods pay-per-view match in Las Vegas last Friday was beset by technical difficulties, leading to Turner Sports and a host of carriers offering refunds to viewers

US sports broadcaster ESPN lost around two million subscribers in the 2018 financial year, according to new figures released by parent company Disney

Sports and betting-related services company Sportradar has teamed up with Fox Sports to provide viewers with data-driven coverage of sporting events

Amazon has made its biggest and boldest move into live sports broadcasting by joining the bidding for all of the 22 Regional Sports Networks that Disney acquired from 21st Century Fox but has been forced …

US telco AT&T has struck a multi-year extension to its carriage deal with Fox Networks Group just days before the original agreement was due to expire
American Football

Internet company Amazon has revealed that viewing figures for its coverage of the NFL’s Thursday Night Football games have increased by 22 per cent this season.
Baseball

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has struck a seven-year extension worth a reported $5bn (€4.4