North America

Boxing
USA

OTT sports streaming service DAZN has agreed a partnership in the US with social media platform Snapchat designed to promote its boxing content
Baseball
USA

Major League Baseball and Fox Sports narrowly avoided setting a record for the least-watched World Series opener ever on US television
XFL
USA

ABC will broadcast the first game of the rebooted XFL, between the DC Defenders and Seattle Dragons, at Audi Field in Washington, DC, on Saturday, February 8, at 2pm ET.
Football
USA

The Octagon agency will prioritise domestic and global media-rights deals as it seeks to maximise the reach and revenue of the National Women’s Soccer League, the top US women’s football league, from 202…
American Football
USA

The National Football League Players Association and NFL Media have agreed to a multi-year deal to broadcast the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl live on NFL Network through 2024
Football
USA

The Bundesliga is taking a calculated gamble in its new US media-rights deal, with ESPN, as despite the huge increase in the rights fee the deal involves a significant reduction in linear television exposure.
Motorsport
USA

North American stock-car racing series Nascar has struck an agreement with US commercial and pay-television broadcaster NBC Sports to deliver live coverage of its esports championship for the first time
Baseball
USA

Major League Baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates have signed a multi-year extension of their local TV rights deal with AT&T SportsNet, the second such team to do so with the network in the past week.
Golf
USA

In a first for golf, the PGA Tour will livestream every shot from every player over all four rounds from the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, on March 12-15, 2020.
Multi-sport
USA

After a 10-day impasse, Fox and Dish Network ended their carriage dispute at the weekend which had prevented millions of the satellite provider's subscribers from watching Thursday Night Football as well …
Football
USA

Major League Soccer team DC United has called time on its local broadcast deal with subscription-based OTT provider FloSports after less than a season
Football
USA

Pay-television broadcaster beIN will pay a more than 10-per-cent uplift in rights fees for Spanish football’s LaLiga over the course of its new four-season renewal in North America, SportBusiness Media understands, despite the challenging conditions beIN faces in that market.
Wrestling
Canada

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has struck a rights agreement with the recently-launched All Elite Wrestling promotion
Swimming
Canada

The new franchise-based International Swimming League will receive free-to-air exposure in Canada after a rights agreement was struck with CBC Sports, the sports arm of the public broadcaster
Baseball
USA

Major League Baseball this season posted a series of gains in linear and digital television consumption, contrasting with the sport’s ongoing attendance decline.
Football
USA

Matches from German football’s Bundesliga will be chiefly showcased stateside on ESPN+, Disney’s direct-to-consumer sports streaming service, in a long-term rights deal that starts next season.
Football
United Kingdom

An invitation to submit offers (ISO) will soon be launched in the US market for rights to the Uefa Champions League, the Europa League and the new third-tier Europa Conference League covering the 2021-22…
Multi-sport
USA

Media measurement and analytics firm Comscore, widely used by sports leagues and media entities over the past 15 years to measure their digital reach, has settled fraud charges with the US Securities &…