North America

Wrestling

The American media strategy for World Wrestling Entertainment has now been dramatically reshaped and resettled following a landmark deal this week to license the content from the WWE Network exclusively …
Baseball

The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), the regional sports network home of Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles, will finally enable in-market streaming of live games in 2…
Motorsport

NBC Sports has announced that streaming service Peacock will become the new OTT home of the NTT IndyCar Series this year, with coverage migrating from NBC Sports Gold’s “IndyCar Pass." T
Golf

The PGA Tour has announced it will debut a second-screen betting-infused broadcast on NBC Sports' streaming service Peacock Premium for the Waste Management Phoenix Open on February 4-7
Wrestling

Marking a major strategic shift for American sports content streaming, World Wrestling Entertainment will shut down this spring its standalone, wholly owned and operated WWE Network and instead license…
Multi-sport

NBCUniversal has announced it will shut down its sports cable network NBCSN by the end of the year, with much of its content migrating to sister Comcast-owned general-entertainment channel USA Network …
Horse Racing

This year’s edition of the Pegasus World Cup Championship Invitational Series, which takes place in the US city of Miami, will be aired in major markets around the world after rights distribution agency H…
Basketball

The Brooklyn Nets' formation of a superstar Big 3 in James Harden, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant has led to an immediate ratings spike for regional sports network YES Network
Cricket

The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced a series of international media-rights deals covering cricket played in the country during the 2021 to 2023 period
NFL

American television ratings for the National Football League’s Divisional round of the postseason averaged 30.6
Multi-sport

NBC Sports has announced that it will begin to integrate PointsBet odds into gameplay of its free-to-play sports gaming app NBC Sports Predictor
Baseball

ESPN has signed announcers Alex Rodriguez and Matt Vasgersian to one-year contract extensions that will keep them in place with its flagship Major League Baseball broadcast property, Sunday Night Baseball,…
Multi-sport

Former ESPN colleagues John Skipper and Dan Le Batard have officially formed a new content company called Meadowlark Media.
Motorsport

The Crew, a new Netflix sitcom focused on a small Nascar Cup Series team, will be released on February 15, the day after the stock car racing series' season-opening Daytona 500 race
NFL

Last weekend’s push by the National Football League and CBS Sports to engage younger audiences proved to be a substantial hit, as the specially designed production of a Wild Card playoff game on Nickelodeon g…
Multi-sport

Sports-focused streaming service fuboTV has announced plans to acquire sports betting start-up company Vigtory and expects to launch a sportsbook before the end of the year.
US College Sport

The Atlantic 10 collegiate athletic conference, one of the top mid-majors in American college sports, has secured a multiyear domestic media rights extension with NBC Sports for men's and women's basketball
Multi-sport

Univision, the US Spanish-language broadcaster, has announced a major shake-up of its executive leadership team, headlined by Pierluigi Gazzolo being appointed to the newly-created role of president o…