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Boxing promoter and former multiple world champion Oscar De La Hoya will launch an eponymous Spanish-language sports and lifestyle cable television channel.

Eurovision, the television producer operated by the European Broadcasting Union, and Alpine Canada, the country's national governing body for alpine skiing, have struck a rights deal with Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet.

The International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation (FIBT) has renegotiated a deal for Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet to show same-day coverage of the remainder of the 2014-15 Bobsleigh and Skeleton Word Cup.

US media company NBCUniversal will provide 11 consecutive hours of live streaming content free of charge for Super Bowl XLIX on February 1, as it seeks to use the huge audiences associated with the finale to the NFL American football season to raise awareness of its online viewing platforms.

The NFL American football league has extended a rights deal for the Thursday Night Football package with the CBS network in the US.

Uefa has agreed a raft of Champions League and Europa League rights deals, securing fee increases in each territory, TV Sports Markets understands.

US pay-television broadcaster CBS Sports Network has agreed a five-year rights extension with the Army Athletic Association for the body’s college American football games.

US telecommunications company AT&T has struck a deal to carry new Latin American action sports channel PX TV on its U-Verse pay-television service.

The NBC Sports Group division of US media company NBCUniversal has struck a multi-year rights deal to show the new Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) series.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has reported record cable television audience and rating figures for its broadcast of Monday’s inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship game.

US pay-television sports broadcaster Universal Sports Network has broadened its reach after three cable television operators agreed carriage deals for the platform.

Major League Baseball franchise the Chicago Cubs has signed a new five-year local rights deal with cable-television broadcaster WGN-TV.

Sports production company Keemotion has been acquired by a consortium of investors led by David Abrams, a retired partner from US private equity firm Apollo Global Management.

Sling TV, a subsidiary of US pay-television provider Dish Network, has said it will launch a new live, over-the-top television service offering customers access to content from companies including sports broadcaster ESPN.

Internet video technology provider NeuLion, a partner to a host of major professional sports leagues in the US, has acquired next-generation digital video solutions specialist DivX.

The IMG College division of the IMG agency has signed a 10-year extension, from 2016-17 to 2025-26, to its multi-media rights partnership with East Carolina University in the US.