North America

American Football

US pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports will stream live coverage of the Super Bowl NFL American football championship game on February 2 for free, but will restrict online coverage of the National Football Conference (NFC) post-season to subscribers of selected pay-television operators, according to media news publication Variety.

American Football

US network CBS has announced it will live stream its coverage of the NFL’s American Football Conference play-offs through its CBSSports.com website for the first time.

Baseball

US pay-television broadcaster Comcast SportsNet has extended a media rights deal with the Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball franchise.

Mixed Martial Arts

The Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts organisation has launched a new digital subscription service which plans to offer a minimum of 10 exclusive live events per year.

Football

Murdoch pays Champions League premium in US and Germany

Ice Hockey

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has announced that it will utilise its broadcast coverage of ice hockey’s 2014 World Junior Championship to debut the first live sports usage of the Twitter Amplify platform in Canada.

American Football

American football’s NFL “will strongly oppose” a proposal by US regulators to scrap the so-called ‘blackout’ rule that blocks sports events from being shown live on television in their local market if they fail to meet a specified level of ticket sales.

Ice Hockey

North America’s NHL ice hockey league has agreed a US rights deal for the 2014 World Junior Championship, with games being broadcast through league-owned cable and satellite television channel NHL Network and official website NHL.com.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport, which is owned by Qatari pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera, has furthered its reach in the Canadian market by agreeing a carriage deal with pay-television operator Cox Communications.

American Football

US sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed a multi-year deal, commencing in 2014, for the rights to indoor American football competition the Arena Football League.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN and French-language sister network RDS have signed a multi-year extension to their long-term programming agreement with the ESPN International arm of US sports broadcaster ESPN.

Football

The Fox Sports division of the Fox network has extended an exclusive rights deal in the US and Caribbean to show the Uefa Champions League and Europa League club football competitions.

American Football

US satellite television provider DirecTV and American football league the NFL have agreed on a framework for negotiations to renew the company’s Sunday Ticket package of programming, according to the Reuters news agency.

Media and marketing company Internet Media Services has been retained by beIN Sport to sell advertising inventory across the pay-television broadcaster’s North American media platforms.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport, which is owned by Qatari pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera, is set to launch on Canadian cable and satellite television after securing a strategic and exclusive partnership with media company Ethnic Channels Group.

American Football

Bell has extended and expanded a media rights deal for American football’s NFL that will allow the Canadian telecommunications company to show more games than ever before.

Golf

Golf’s Asian Tour has signed an exclusive 10-year partnership with US pay-television broadcaster the Golf Channel.

Skiing

EBU deal with US ski federation will increase exposure for ski events in the country