North America

Basketball

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport is set to lose its rights to North American basketball league the NBA and mixed martial arts promotion the Ultimate Fighting Championship

The shareholders of media companies Disney and 21st Century Fox have voted to approve the former’s deal to acquire a host of Fox assets.

European pay-television broadcaster Sky has today (Thursday) reported a five per cent increase in group revenues in its annual financial results, as US media companies 21st Century Fox and Comcast continue …
Football

London-based digital media company Copa90 has agreed a content partnership with US broadcast technology company NextVR

NBC Sports Group has appointed Pete Bevacqua to the newly-created role of president of the North American media group
Baseball

US sports broadcaster ESPN has struck a multi-year extension to its rights deal with college sports organisation the Big South Conference

US media company Comcast has today (Thursday) announced it will end its pursuit of the assets 21st Century Fox has agreed to sell to the Walt Disney Company in favour of concentrating on its takeover bid…
Boxing

Digital sports media company Perform has revealed that its DAZN OTT platform will launch in the US on September 10 priced at $9.99 (€8.5
Volleyball

US sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed a rights deal to cover the new beach volleyball series being launched by America’s multi-Olympic gold medallist Kerri Walsh Jennings.

Comcast has moved swiftly to counter the enhanced takeover offer submitted by 21st Century Fox for pan-European pay-television broadcaster Sky by entering a new bid to exceed that of its rival US media…
Football

US Imagina, a division of sports media group Imagina, has been ordered to pay $24m (€20.5m) after pleading guilty yesterday (Tuesday) to bribing Latin American football officials.
Boxing

ESPN+, the US sports broadcaster’s subscription streaming service, will hold live and exclusive rights to the comeback fight of Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao.

Football

DAZN has agreed two more combat sports deals since its joint venture with Matchroom Boxing, but all three deals contain clauses that would allow the Perform-owned streaming platform to quickly shift its content strategy

Football

Telemundo’s deal for Spanish-language rights to the 2019 Copa América ensures most matches will be shown free-to-air in the US – a key consideration for MP & Silva and Conmebol ahead of sponsorship sales around the tournament

Boxing

DAZN, the OTT platform operated by digital sports media company Perform, has acquired rights in the US for the World Boxing Super Series.

Football

Spanish-language sports broadcaster Telemundo Deportes has acquired rights in the US to the 2019 edition of the Copa América national team football tournament.

Boxing

Golden Boy Promotions has struck a deal with Facebook that will allow the social media platform to stream live coverage of a series of the promoter’s boxing events.

Esports

The NBC Sports division of US media company NBCUniversal has added video-sharing platform YouTube as a new rights partner for the second season of the Rocket League, the esports competition it organises alongside competitive gaming platform FACEIT.