North America

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…
Multi-sport

Popular American sports talk radio personality Dan Le Batard is teaming up with former ESPN colleague John Skipper to create a new media company, according to multiple reports
Basketball

The National Basketball Association and leading US satellite and digital radio network SiriusXM have expanded their partnership to include additional streaming rights
NFL

The National Football League, which battled a series of operational challenges related to the Covid-19 pandemic throughout its 2020 regular season, ended the schedule down 7 per cent in domestic television…
Ice Hockey

Canadian pay-television broadcaster Sportsnet has agreed ‘multi-year’ regional broadcast rights extensions with the National Hockey League’s Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers. S
Multi-sport

ViacomCBS has announced an extended distribution agreement with Disney’s Hulu + Live TV, which keeps cable channel CBS Sports Network on the live television streaming service.
NFL

ESPN's first National Football League Wild Card MegaCast, featuring the Baltimore Ravens-Tennessee Titans clash at Nissan Stadium on January 10, has been expanded to include a sports betting-infused stream…
NFL

The National Football League has finalized the schedule for its first-ever “Super Wild Card Weekend,” the opening component of its expanded 14-team playoffs.
Golf

European Tour Productions, the Tour’s host broadcast and media-rights sales arm in which the US-based PGA Tour recently agreed to acquire a minority stake, has reported turnover of £99.5m (€110.4m/$134.5m)
Ice Hockey

NBC Sports has announced that the National Women’s Hockey League 2021 Isobel Cup semifinals and final will air live exclusively on cable network NBCSN on February 4-5.
Volleyball

Athletes Unlimited, the start-up network of professional sports leagues, has announced that its inaugural indoor volleyball season will take place at Fair Park Coliseum in Dallas, Texas, from February 2…
American Football

The National Football League is poised to generate more than $100bn (€82bn) in a series of new long-term domestic television rights deals, further highlighting just how powerful the sports property is t…
Motorsport

Pay-television broadcaster TVA Sports has agreed a three-year deal to become the exclusive French-language broadcaster of Formula E in Canada
Golf

The PGA Tour and ESPN have reached an agreement for direct-to-consumer platform ESPN+ to stream live, featured-hole coverage from 23 Tour events in 2021
Multi-sport

The direct-to-consumer ESPN+ will be gaining a set of sizable bumps in exposure and functionality with the integration of the streaming service into sister offering Hulu, while also being offered directly…
US College Sports

ESPN has signed a landmark media rights agreement with the Southeastern Conference, gaining exclusive rights to the Power Five conference’s premium football package beginning with the 2024-25 academic y…
NFL

Fox Corp. could elect to drop its Thursday night rights package with the National Football League if bidding becomes too high, the company’s chief financial officer said.
Multi-sport

Peacock is continuing its sharp growth trajectory as NBCUniversal chief executive Jeff Shell said the new streaming service has now surpassed 26 million sign-ups