North America

Social media platform Twitter has reached an agreement to stream live coverage in the United States of tomorrow’s (Saturday’s) WBO Lightweight world championship boxing match between Terry Flanagan and Petr Petrov.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has added more content in the US by securing exclusive rights to the American Ultimate Disc League ultimate frisbee competition.

Video-sharing platform YouTube has launched its new service that delivers a range of major television channels to subscribers via the internet in the US, including a raft of sports content.

American football league the NFL has entered into a wide-ranging partnership with technology giant Intel, while it has officially confirmed its Thursday Night Football agreement with e-commerce and media company Amazon.

MSG Networks, which owns and operates two US regional sports and entertainment networks – MSG Network and MSG Plus – is looking to sell itself and is approaching buyers, according to the New York Post.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has acquired rights in the United States for select events from cycling’s 2017 Ciclismo Cup.

E-commerce and media company Amazon has acquired live streaming rights to the NFL American football league’s Thursday Night Football franchise, according to multiple reports.

US pay-television broadcaster HBO has extended its partnership with the NFL American football league, through which it will continue to air the Hard Knocks documentary series.

A collective of major broadcasters and Europe’s leading football organisations have joined forces to call on the G7 group of industrial nations to take action to tackle internet piracy.

The NBC Olympics division of US media company NBCUniversal has extended its partnership with social media platform Snapchat to cover the 2018 winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

US network NBC has committed to complete live coverage of a winter Olympic Games for the first time, with the impact of social media cited as a key reason behind the move for next year’s event in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Pay-television broadcaster Superswiss has acquired rights for the German ice hockey league, the DEL, in the US.

Social media platform Twitter will face competition from at least three major rivals to extend its live streaming rights to the NFL American football league’s Thursday Night Football franchise.

The US Department of Justice has said it has reached a settlement in a case that saw it sue telco AT&T and its DirecTV satellite operator for allegedly acting as the “ringleader” of a series of unlawful information exchanges between DirecTV and three of its competitors during carriage talks for regional pay-television channel SportsNet LA.

Acquiring the distribution infrastructure of One World Sports was an opportunistic move to get into the US media-rights market with a “headstart”, according to Eleven Sports Network executive chairman Marc Watson.

Interview with Marc Watson, executive chairman of Eleven Sports Networks, about the channel's launch in the US on the back of acquiring One World Sports’ distribution assets.