North America

NFL

US digital sports media outlet Bleacher Report this week is making a large-scale push at Super Bowl LIV for its new football content brand, B/R Gridiron
Football

US broadcaster Fox Sports and regional soccer federation Concacaf have agreed to a multi-year English-language rights deal, which includes the 2021 and 2023 Gold Cups as well as USA men’s and women’s Oly…
Multi-sport

Minute Media, a New York-based digital media conglomerate, has continued its aggressive run of dealmaking, acquiring FanSided from the Meredith Corp
Olympic Games

The NBC Olympics division of US media company NBCUniversal has extended its partnership with social media platform Snapchat to cover the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo
US College Sports

Boise State University has filed a legal complaint against the Mountain West Conference, alleging bad faith and breach of contract in the conference's new six-year, $270m television contract with CBS a…
Multi-sport

European pay-television broadcaster Sky recorded both revenue and subscriber increases for the fourth quarter of 2019, but a fall in total revenue for the full year, according to results presented today…
Basketball

Zion Williamson's highly-anticipated debut for the New Orleans Pelicans, in a nationally-televised prime-time game against the San Antonio Spurs on January 22, is expected to give the National Basketball…
Equestrian

International equestrian sports network Horse & Country TV (H&C) has acquired US equestrian streaming provider EQ Sports Net (EQSN), a deal it says will offer fans of the sport an experience unmatched…
American Football

Collective audience is smallest since 2009, bucking season-long audience improvement for league
women's basketball

Canadian public broadcaster CBC has agreed a content-sharing deal with OTT platform DAZN to show the latter’s coverage of the national team’s matches at the Fiba Women's Olympic qualification tournament.
Multi-sport

Comcast and NBCUniversal's new Peacock subscription streaming video service will contain a significant amount of live sports coverage, including extensive coverage of this summer's Tokyo Olympics
Wrestling

US media and entertainment company WarnerMedia has expanded its rights agreement with the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) promotion following a successful initial collaboration
Wrestling

The ICM Partners agency has agreed a deal with Major League Wrestling to sell television and streaming rights for the competition
Multi-sport

US media company Comcast NBCUniversal has launched SportsTech, a new global accelerator programme for sports technology start-ups
American Football

Both title game, entire playoff series shows audience growth
Ice Hockey

A new 3-on-3 professional ice hockey league called 3ICE is scheduled to debut in North America in 2021
Football

OneSoccer, Mediapro’s OTT sports streaming service in Canada, has acquired exclusive rights to the 2021 and 2023 editions of the Concacaf Gold Cup, the national team tournament for associations from N…
Football

ESPN+, ESPN’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, has gained the exclusive US media rights to Spanish soccer cup competition the Copa del Rey as part of a new multi-year agreement with the Royal Spanish Fo…