North America
Disney becomes latest US media entity to report record Upfront
Live sports plays a key role in historic sales total
Disney raises price of ESPN+ by 43 per cent
Move to $9.99 per month follows extensive push to add content to service
Relevent aiming for $2.5bn mark in US Champions League process
Relevent Sports Group is targeting revenue of over $400m per season from Uefa club competition rights in the US after being permitted to strike a deal for up to six seasons, SportBusiness Media understands.
CBC strikes late Commonwealth Games rights deal
Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC has acquired exclusive rights to the 2022 edition of the Commonwealth Games multi-sport event, which will take place in the English city of Birmingham from July…
PointsBet, IMG Arena strike two-year streaming partnership
Australia-based gaming operator PointsBet has sealed a two-year streaming partnership with IMG Arena, the betting division of the Endeavor-owned IMG agency.
Relevent goes to market with US rights to Uefa club competitions
The US media rights sales invitation to tender for Uefa club competitions from 2024-25 onwards, a process being managed by the Relevent Sports agency, has launched today (Monday)
ELF to receive US exposure with Next Level Sports & Entertainment
Next Level Sports & Entertainment has agreed a deal with the European League of Football to cover the American football competition in the US market
Goodell: decision on NFL Sunday Ticket due by the fall
Prominent out-of-market package set to head to streaming platform
Legal fight forthcoming as Musk drops bid to buy Twitter
Dispute continues over number of spam accounts on social media platform
MLW signs expanded deal with US rightsholder beIN
The Major League Wrestling promotion has extended and expanded its United States rights deal with subscription broadcaster beIN Sports
USFL draws 1.52 million viewers for championship game
The rebooted United States Football League drew an average domestic audience of 1.52 million for its inaugural championship game, with the audience peaking at 1.834 million on the Fox network
MLS agrees lucrative long-term betting data and streaming deal with IMG Arena
Major League Soccer has concluded its second major piece of business in the space of a month, agreeing an eight-year betting data and streaming rights agreement with IMG Arena, the betting division of…
Pac-12 to start media rights talks amid membership speculation
Industry questions run rampant as to college conference's future status
Playmaker expands portfolio with World Soccer Talk acquisition
Digital sports media company Playmaker Capital has announced the acquisition of soccer-focused media business World Soccer Talk, whose multiplatform offering includes a website, mobile app, podcast, and …
NBCU pulls plug on Olympic Channel
US media group NBCUniversal has announced it plans to close its dedicated Olympic Channel on September 30
CBC deals with Mediapro for Canada matches at Concacaf women’s Championship
Canadian public-service broadcaster the CBC has agreed a sublicensing deal with the Mediapro Canada agency for rights to the 2022 Concacaf W Championship women’s national team football tournament.
F1 lives the American dream as Disney pays stratospheric increase
Formula One’s meteoric rise in the US has yielded a media rights fee to match via a new deal with Disney, putting the US behind only the UK and Germany in terms of F1 broadcast revenue.
FC Barcelona, Sixth Street finalize €267m LaLiga TV rights deal
LaLiga giants FC Barcelona has finalized a deal to sell 10 per cent of its LaLiga television rights for the next 25 years to United States-based investment firm Sixth Street Partners