North America

Multi-sport
USA

Pac-12 Networks, the content and multi-platform media company for the Pac-12 US college sports conference, has signed an exclusive multi-year agreement with Fox International Sports Channels, a division of 21st Century Fox’s international multi-media business, to distribute Pac-12 sports programming worldwide.
USA

Nascar has said it will retain its current cable-television partners, ESPN and TNT, until the end of the 2014 season amid reports that the US motor-racing series’ new television deal could be brought forward to commence next year.

Action Sports
USA

US pay-television broadcaster ESPN has said it will continue to distribute rights to the US events of its X Games extreme sports franchise around the world after announcing the end of the series’ international events.

Golf
USA

The US PGA Tour golf organisation has expanded its multi-year marketing partnership with the USA Today Sports Media Group to include new digital content initiatives.

Basketball
USA

The Barclays Center sports and entertainment arena has agreed a deal with the Fox Sports division of US network Fox for the rights to its upcoming Brooklyn Hoops college basketball season.

Football
USA

Major League Soccer club the Chicago Fire has signed a rights deal with cable-television operator Time Warner Cable Sports covering the Wisconsin region.

Rugby Union
USA

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has agreed a deal with USA Rugby for the rights to the United States’ game against the New Zealand Maori All Blacks, which will be played in Philadelphia on November 9.

Olympics
USA

US media company NBCUniversal has sold a record $800m (€600m) in advertising for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, according to the AdAge.com website.

Baseball
USA

US media and technology corporation Comcast has said it is prepared to bid for Comcast SportsNet Houston, the exclusive home of Houston Astros MLB baseball and Houston Rockets NBA basketball games, if it can force a sale of the financially-troubled regional sports broadcaster.
USA

US motor-racing series Nascar has agreed a content partnership with youth-orientated sports media platform The Whistle.
Americas

NBC deal for 2014-16 Paralympics help to push up revenues

American Football
USA

Social networking website Twitter has agreed a deal with American football league the NFL to make game clips and other content available through its Amplify platform, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Golf
Canada

The European Tour golf organisation has extended its association with the Golf Channel by signing a new 10-year rights deal with the US pay-television broadcaster.
USA

US media and production company Terra Firma Media Group has announced it will next year launch a new subscription-based online broadcast platform dedicated to niche sports.

Cycling
USA

USA Cycling has signed a three-year partnership with online video platform BTB TV in order to further promote the cyclo-cross discipline in the US and throughout the world.

Paralympics
USA

The NBC Olympics division of US network NBC has agreed a rights deal for the Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016 Paralympic Games under which the two events will receive an unprecedented 116 combined hours of coverage in the United States.

Skiing
USA

Eurovision, the television producer operated by the European Broadcasting Union, has been named the official host broadcaster of the 2015 Alpine World Ski Championships, which take place in the US resorts of Vail and Beaver Creek.

American Football
USA

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has announced an initial six-month partnership with Facebook that will allow data and chatter from the social media website to appear alongside live NFL and college American football broadcasts, as well as soccer games.