North America

Baseball
Host Broadcast & Production

Major League Baseball has started to establish production plans for Colorado Rockies' broadcasts and is likely to air the games on MLB.TV during the 2024 season, SportBusiness understands
Football
Finance & Law

Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) and the Mediapro Canada agency are locked in a legal dispute that will result in rights to the domestic Canadian Premier League (CPL) and the men's and women's national teams…
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Peacock, the NBC streaming service, added three million net subscribers to reach 31 million as its revenue increased by 57 per cent to surpass $1bn (€923m) in quarterly revenue for the first time, the company's parent company Comcast revealed in its 2023 Q4 earnings.
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Daily fantasy and sports betting company DraftKings has appointed Marie Donoghue as its new chief business and growth officer after she left her role as vice-president of Amazon’s US sports content and partnerships.
Surfing
Media

The World Surf League (WSL) has announced a broadcast deal with ESPN that will put all 10 of the Championship Tour events in 2024 on ESPN+, as well as several new sponsors
Basketball

The National Basketball Association’s next round of domestic rights deals seems certain to look very different to those of the last two decades, as streaming technology and changing user behaviour drive change in the US media market at an unprecedented pace.
American Football
Media

The National Football League has set records during its live postseason coverage across the main US networks
American Football

While maintaining its linear dominance, the NFL is increasingly focusing attention on NFL+, its direct-to-consumer streaming service which has just completed its second regular season.
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Diamond Sports has entered into a restructuring support agreement with its largest creditor groups to enable it to emerge from bankruptcy, with the deal including a commitment from Amazon to make a minority investment.
Football
Media

DAZN has retained exclusive Uefa club competition broadcast rights in Canada for another three seasons in a renewed commitment to the market by the subscription streaming broadcaster
American Football
Finance & Law

Disney and the National Football League have held "advanced talks" over the latter taking an equity stake in ESPN, it has been claimed
American Football
Media

The College Football Playoff and ESPN are in “the midst of negotiations” to renew the network as the sole rights-holder for the premier college sports event as it expands from four to 12 teams.Acc
Multiple Sports
Media

US-based cable and satellite broadcasters the YES Network and MSG Networks are to form a 50/50 joint venture called Gotham Advanced Media and Entertainment (GAME) to work on the networks' streaming services
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Marie Donoghue, who played an integral role in growing Amazon's sports rights portfolio in the United States, is to leave the online retail giant
US College Sport
Media

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has agreed a new eight-year domestic and international rights deal with ESPN for 40 of its championships in an agreement worth $920m (€840m).
American Football
Media

Amazon Prime Video's second season as the exclusive Thursday Night Football broadcaster returned a 24-per-cent increase in total viewership in the United States compared to its inaugural season
Basketball
Finance & Law

Mark Cuban said the changing media landscape in the United States contributed to his decision to sell his majority stake in the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks
Ice Hockey
Media

The Professional Women’s Hockey League secured broadcast deals with TSN and Sporstnet, among others, in North America ahead of its inaugural season, which began yesterday (Monday).