North America
Turner puts March Madness basketball behind paywall
US cable-television broadcaster Turner Broadcasting System is introducing a charge for viewers for online coverage of the annual National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Division I Basketball…
Ustream acquires Arena Football League rights
The Ustream website acquired rights for US indoor American football league the Arena Football League in a two-year deal covering the 2012 and 2013 seasons
Ustream expands relationship with Universal Sports Network
The Ustream website agreed a deal with Universal Sports Network to stream the US sports broadcaster’s live coverage of several sporting events, including the 2012 alpine skiing World Cup and the Sevens W…
IMG secures live internet deal for first World Snowboarding Championships
US video-sharing website Livestream acquired exclusive live internet rights for the inaugural World Snowboarding Championships in a deal with the IMG agency
NFL defends broadcast blackouts as FCC deadline passes
American football’s National Football League defended the broadcast blackout rule in a filing to the Federal Communications Commission, the country’s media regulator. Th
NBC Sports Network signs its first NCAA conference deal
NBC Sports Network, the cable-television sports channel of US network NBC, agreed an exclusive five-year deal with the Colonial Athletic Association, for rights to American football and basketball matches…
Eurosport pays big to save grand slams but plays it cool with WTA
Eurosport hangs on to French and US Opens - but at a price
Boxing rights deal for US broadcaster Wealth TV
US cable-television channel Wealth TV acquired exclusive rights to the WBC Continental Americas Lightweight title boxing bout between Chris Howard and Arash Usnamee in Georgia in the US on March 17
Traffic and Full Play both selling Copa 2015 rights
Traffic fails with first injunction but pushes on with Copa sales
NBC attracts record online US audience for Super Bowl
The NBC network’s first-ever live stream of the NFL American football Super Bowl attracted 2.1
Super Bowl breaks US television audience record for third year running
Live coverage of this year’s NFL American football Super Bowl game gave US network NBC the largest average audience for a programme in the history of US television, according to audience measurement c…
US prosecutors seize pirate websites
US prosecutors seized 16 websites that illegally stream live sports and pay-per-view events, and charged a man with running nine of them, ahead of the American football NFL Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday
NBC sells out online ad space ahead of streamed Super Bowl
US network NBC has sold out its digital advertising inventory ahead of the first live online streaming of the NFL’s Super Bowl.
CBS to show new ice hockey conference
CBS Sports Network, the cable sports channel of US network CBS, acquired rights for ice hockey’s National Collegiate Hockey Conference in a multi-year deal from the inaugural 2013-14 season onwards.
US sports broadcast ad spend increases
Sports programming on US television attracted $10.9 billion (€8.6 billion) in advertising expenditure in the year to the end of September 2011, up 5.9 per cent from $10.3
Pitch’s confidence in English football provides boost for FA
FA up in Europe despite weaker rights package and recession
Rights potential pushes up Dodgers’ price
The prospect of a significant increase in the local media rights value of MLB baseball team the Los Angeles Dodgers boosted the minimum asking price for acquiring the franchise, set at $1.5 billion (€1.1