North America

US pay-television operator DirecTV has announced a strategic investment in digital sports technology company LiveClips.

Pay-television broadcaster the Tennis Channel has requested that the US Supreme Court review a ruling from a lower court in May that reiterated pay-television provider Comcast’s right to carry the network on a premium sports tier.

Canadian media company Anthem Media will launch a new television channel focused on fantasy sports in both Canada and the US in March 2014, according to the Multichannel News website.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts event promoter has confirmed plans to launch a new subscription-based digital channel in the US by early January, according to the USA Today news service.

The US Ski and Snowboard governing body has acquired media rights in the US for the 2015 and 2017 editions of the Alpine and Nordic Ski World Championships.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Deportes has signed a two-year deal with American football league the NFL under which the Super Bowl will be televised by a US Spanish-language channel for the first time.

The Canadian Paralympic Committee has acquired the broadcast rights to the Sochi 2014 Paralympic winter Games and Rio 2016 summer Paralympic Games.

Spanish-language US broadcaster Univision has acquired the rights to the USA Knockouts’ fights in the 2013-14 season of the World Series of Boxing.

Sports media company Perform has agreed a four-year deal with the England & Wales Cricket Board to deliver live and on-demand coverage of the England cricket team’s home international matches to North America and the Caribbean.

North America’s Major League Baseball and NFL American football leagues have threatened to move all their broadcast rights to pay-television if streaming service Aereo is deemed legal, according to a filing by the two organisations.

Mixed martial arts promotion Legacy Fighting Championship has agreed a multi-year rights deal with US cable television channel AXS TV Fights.

North American sports industry revenues are projected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 4.8 per cent to $67.7bn (€49.8bn) by 2017, fuelled by the media rights market, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

NHL ice hockey franchise the Phoenix Coyotes has agreed a multi-year extension to its regional rights deal with cable and satellite broadcaster Fox Sports Arizona.

North America's Major League Baseball has agreed a multi-platform programming partnership with Viacom-owned youth entertainment media group MTV.

The Premier League, the top division of English football, has settled its long-running legal battle with video-sharing website YouTube over alleged copyright infringement of its content, according to the Guardian newspaper.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has acquired media rights for events operated by the Feld Motor Sports division of event promoter Feld Entertainment.