North America

North America’s Major League Baseball has agreed new eight-year rights deals, from 2014 to 2021, with US network Fox and cable-television broadcaster Turner Broadcasting System.

Russian ice hockey league the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) has announced a one-year rights deal covering the 2012-13 season with sports broadcaster ESPN in North America and the UK

US college sports conference the Atlantic 10 has agreed a new nine-year rights deal, from 2012-13 to 2020-21, with the NBCUniversal media group and new eight-year rights agreements, from 2013-14 to 2020-21,…

The thrilling final day of the Ryder Cup golf tournament on Sunday in Illinois, the US, attracted the event’s highest preliminary viewing figures in the US for 13 years, according to the NBC network.

The Premier League chose to start its international sales in the Americas with good reason: bidding wars are expected in the US and Brazil

US online streaming service Hulu Plus has agreed an exclusive multi-year deal with the WWE wrestling organisation to stream all its television shows and some of its online series

North America’s Major League Baseball is close to renewing rights deals with US network Fox and cable-television broadcaster Turner Broadcasting System, according to the Wall Street Journal newspaper.

US ice hockey competition the Central Hockey League has sold its internet coverage rights to online sports video portal America One Sports in a three-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has sealed a 10-year broadcast partnership with the University of Oklahoma and agreed rights deals with fellow Big 12 sports conference colleges Texas Tech University…

Slim buys into Mexican clubs to take on duopoly

MCS advances in France and beyond

US satellite pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has dropped pay-television channel Gol TV from its service after the latter lost rights to the Spanish Liga, the top division of football in Spain

US Asia-focused sports network One World Sports has extended a rights deal for coverage of Chinese Basketball Association tournaments with the Infront Sports & Media agency, the national governing body’s g…

US cable television motorsports channel Speed acquired live rights for the World Touring Car Championship motor-racing event in Sonoma, the US, on September 23

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC has acquired rights for the 2015 Pan American Games and Parapan Am Games, which will take place in Toronto

US Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo has acquired rights to the home matches of Mexican Liga MX football side, Club León. The deal is effective immediately.

US college sports conference the Big 12 has confirmed a new 13-year rights deal, from 2012-13 to 2024-25, with sports broadcaster ESPN

Big jump in China, big drop in Canada for 2014-16 Games