North America

NBA TV, the cable and satellite television broadcaster operated by the North American basketball league, has extended its rights deal with Euroleague Basketball for the 2014-15 season.

NHL ice hockey franchise the Anaheim Ducks has signed a “long-term” contract extension with local broadcast rights-holder Fox Sports Prime Ticket.

NHL ice hockey team the Dallas Stars has agreed a multi-year extension to its local rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Southwest.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has agreed a new partnership with College Hockey Inc, the commercial rights-holder of NCAA Division I men’s college ice hockey, to deliver expanded live coverage of the 2014-15 season.

There are three main reasons why the National Basketball Association secured a 180-per-cent increase in the value of its domestic media rights this month, according to US rights experts.

US pay-television broadcaster Tennis Channel has acquired rights for the new Champions Tennis League in India.

Time Warner Cable’s shareholders have approved a deal for the US pay-television operator to be acquired by US media company Comcast for $45.2bn (€33.2bn).

US multimedia entertainment studio Electus has acquired the international distribution rights for the Bellator MMA mixed martial arts organisation.

The North American NBA basketball league is to make a number of regular-season games available on a new online sports platform that will be created in partnership with US pay-television broadcaster ESPN as part of its next rights cycle.

US network ABC and cable-television broadcaster Turner Broadcasting System have struck long-term media-rights extensions for the NBA basketball league, according to the Wall Street Journal newspaper.

Marine motorsport promoter Powerboat P1 has signed a broadcast deal with the Fox Sports International division of media company 21st Century Fox.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights to the new Fall Experimental Football League (FXFL) American football development competition, according to Forbes.

Satellite-television provider DirecTV has extended an exclusive rights deal for the NFL American football Sunday Ticket package of programming.

European club ice hockey competition the Kontinental Hockey League has strengthened its global footprint with the Ufa Sports agency securing a host of new broadcast rights deals.

Lega Serie A, the governing body of the top division of Italian football, and its strategic media rights advisor, the Infront Sports & Media agency, have launched a tender for the international broadcast rights to Serie A.

The US Federal Communications Commission will today (Tuesday) vote on a proposal to end the controversial ‘blackout’ rule that blocks certain sports events from being shown live on television in their local market if they fail to meet a specified level of ticket sales.