North America
Comcast brings forward NBCU buy-out
US media and technology corporation Comcast has agreed a $16.7 billion (€12.5
Dish carriage fee dispute with ESPN reaches court
A trial over a claim by US pay-television provider Dish Network that cable-television sports broadcaster ESPN breached a carriage contract by offering better deals to rival distributors has started in…
Sportsnet extends Canucks coverage
Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet has acquired regional rights for games featuring the Vancouver Canucks NHL ice hockey team
Fox adds to Concacaf rights package
US broadcaster Fox has added five more competitions to its broadcast rights partnership with Concacaf, the governing body of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean
Shaw Communications tees up US PGA Tour rights
Canadian telecommunications company Shaw Communications has agreed a five-year broadcast rights deal with golf’s US PGA Tour which will run through 2018.
News Corp to unveil plans for US national channels
Media conglomerate News Corporation will unveil its new US national sports channels to advertisers in early March in an effort to attract viewers and advertisers from sports broadcaster ESPN, according…
Watching Brief (Vol.49) Special Focus: American Football – Super Bowl
Ben Speight, head of SportBusiness Intelligence, analyses how TV audiences for this year’s NFL Super Bowl are down on both sides of the Atlantic
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LPGA tees up digital video deal
Digital sports video news agency SendtoNews has agreed a multi-year digital video distribution deal with the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), the leading professional tour in women’s golf.
Dynamo secures Spanish-language platform
US Spanish-language cable-television broadcaster Mega TV has acquired local broadcast rights for games featuring Major League Soccer franchise the Houston Dynamo
NBC Sports Network secures World Series of Fighting rights
US cable-television broadcaster NBC Sports Network has acquired rights for the World Series of Fighting mixed martial arts series in a three-year deal, from 2013 to 2015
Super Bowl pulls in top audiences in US, Canada
US network CBS’s live coverage of the NFL’s American football Super Bowl game on Sunday attracted an average of 108.4 million viewers in the country, according to audience measurement company Nielsen.
TSN set to retain Canadian Football League rights
Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN is set to extend a domestic rights deal for the Canadian Football League, the country’s top gridiron division, according to the Globe and Mail newspaper.
Ustream extends deal for Six Nations and Gaelic sports
North American sports broadcaster Premium Sports has extended a deal with Ustream to allow the video-sharing platform to show live coverage of the Six Nations international rugby union championship and…
ESPN picks up English-language rights to Mexico matches
US cable-television sports broadcaster ESPN has acquired English-language rights for the Mexico national football team’s home matches.
MLB raises concerns over Dodgers’ rights deal
Major League Baseball (MLB) has expressed concerns over the Los Angeles Dodgers’ new local rights deal with US broadcaster Time Warner Cable (TWC), according to the USA Today newspaper.
Time Warner Cable confirms new channel launch as part of Dodgers deal
US broadcaster Time Warner Cable (TWC) has confirmed that a new regional pay-television sports channel will be launched as part of a deal to acquire the media rights of Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles D…
US Figure Skating unveils NBC extension
US Figure Skating has agreed a new rights deal with the NBC network, while the Icenetwork
Canada not a big draw in Canada
Lack of stars caps Concacaf earnings in Canada