North America

Multi-sport

Quibi, the United States-based short-form streaming video service that featured several high-profile sports programs and had Meg Whitman, co-owner of Major League Soccer’s FC Cincinnati, as its chief e…
Baseball

Major League Baseball has introduced new features with short-form social media platform Snapchat in which the company’s augmented reality platform has now been incorporated into the league’s Ballpark mob…
Basketball

Subscription broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights to Europe’s Basketball Champions League in the US.
Golf

Turner Sports has finalized plans for a third iteration of “The Match,” with the planned November 27 event to feature two new superstars to join event holdovers Phil Mickelson and Peyton Manning.
Baseball

Major League Baseball has completed a multi-year rights deal with Star Sports India in which the broadcaster will show each game of the 2020 and 2021 World Series live across India
Football

The Disney-owned direct-to-consumer streaming platform ESPN+ has acquired US broadcast rights to the Scottish Premiership in one of a string of broadcast deals finalised by the Infront agency
Boxing

NBC Sports and start-up boxing broadcast and content platform Ring City USA have announced a partnership to televise a series of boxing matches on cable channel NBCSN through 2021.
Multi-sport

The competitiveness of the emerging American sports betting landscape and increasingly discrete nature of sportsbook-related sponsorships were on full display as Turner Sports signed a pair of distinct…
NFL

Online retail and streaming giant Amazon is continuing to expand its presence within the National Football League, securing rights to stream one of the league's two newly formed Wild Card playoff games,…
Media

Separate agreements divided between network's NBA programming, other properties
NFL

The National Football League's Chicago Bears have struck a content partnership with regional sports network Marquee Sports Network
Tennis

Tennis Channel will become the principal home of men's tennis in the United States after signing a wide-ranging television and digital rights agreement with ATP Media, the broadcast arm of the Association…
Horse Racing

This weekend’s British Champions Day horse-racing event at Ascot will enjoy international broadcast exposure, with US network Fox Sports and sub-Saharan pay-television operator SuperSport among the broadcasters t…
NFL

ESPN Deportes has gained the domestic Spanish-language rights to broadcast Super Bowl LV, which is scheduled to take place at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on February 7, 2021.
Golf

The PGA Tour has announced that this week's CJ Cup at Shadow Creek will be the organization's first tournament to feature live betting odds during a linear telecast
US College Sports

ESPN and its direct-to-consumer streaming platform ESPN+ have signed a multi-year extension to a rights deal with the Southland Conference US college sports conference
Football

France’s Division 1 Féminine, the top tier of women’s football in the country, is to receive broadcast coverage in the US, UK, Germany and Italy from the 2020-21 season.
Multi-sport

The NBC Olympics division of US media company NBCUniversal has extended its content partnership with social media platform Twitter in a deal which covers the postponed Tokyo Summer Olympics set for the …