North America
Cubs’ Marquee Sports Network debuts
Marquee Sports Network, the long-planned regional sports network from Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs, debuted over the Feb.
TSN scores eight-year Curling Canada rights extension
Bell Media-owned pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has agreed an eight-year extension to its rights deal with Curling Canada
ESPN opts for two-man booth for Sunday Night Baseball
ESPN has reset its announcer team for its flagship Major League Baseball broadcast property, Sunday Night Baseball, going with a two-man booth
Lagardère Sports to be rebranded and Felsing returns in H.I.G. takeover
H.I.G. Europe, an arm of the international private equity and asset management firm, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in the Lagardère Sports agency.
Digital media expert Ruibal joins Horse & Country TV board
Claude Ruibal, the experienced digital sports media executive, has joined the board of Horse & Country TV (H&C), the international equestrian sports network
Chicago Fire signs local broadcast deal with WGN-TV
Major League Soccer's Chicago Fire has announced a local broadcast deal with WGN-TV in a multi-year partnership
IMG Arena extends NHL betting rights to US market
IMG Arena, the sports betting arm of the IMG agency, has expanded its deal with ice hockey’s NHL by securing rights to provide US sports betting operators with live streams of select out-of-market games.
NBA All-Star Game TV ratings rise eight per cent following format change
The format change of the National Basketball Association All-Star Game has proven a hit with fans, with TV ratings for this year's event at Chicago's United Center averaging 7
AT&T sale of regional sports networks ‘falls short’
US telco AT&T's plans to sell its four regional sports networks as part of a wider plan to slash the company’s debts is faltering, according to the New York Post.
Mediapro and Pitch to sell US rights to South America’s 2022 World Cup qualifiers
International media rights agencies Mediapro and Pitch International will join forces to sell the exclusive broadcast rights in the United States to South American nation’s qualifying matches for the F…
LaLiga targets US fans with FanWide bar network link-up
LaLiga North America has teamed up with FanWide, a website that shows sports fans the closest match-watch party or fan community event at sports bars across the US
TNT to broadcast NBA All-Star Game’s fourth quarter commercial-free
TNT has announced it will broadcast the untimed fourth quarter of this weekend's National Basketball Association All-Star Game, which will honor the late Kobe Bryant, commercial-free for the first time
USL scores Lagardère international rights distribution deal
The Lagardère Sports agency is to distribute the international broadcast rights to the USL Championship and USL League One, the second- and third-tier US soccer leagues, respectively.
F1 TV takes to big screen with Roku tie-up
F1 TV, Formula 1’s over-the-top streaming service, will be available in a large-screen format after the motor-racing championship agreed a deal with US media company Roku.
DC United now in talks with Sinclair over local TV deal
Major League Soccer’s DC United is reportedly in talks with Sinclair Broadcast Group over a local television rights deal.
Spotify deal for The Ringer ‘worth $250m’
US audio streaming subscription service Spotify will be paying $250m (€229m) for the Ringer, the multimedia sports and pop culture content hub created by Bill Simmons, according to figures reported by B…
NBC Olympics enters into NowThis content partnership
The NBC Olympics division of US media company NBCUniversal will partner with mobile-first video news outlet NowThis to produce content focused on United States Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the lead-up …
FloSports creates new baseball vertical
Texas-based sports streaming operator FloSports has created a new centralized platform for its baseball content where more than 700 collegiate and youth league games will be shown this upcoming season