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Basketball
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ESPN on April 14 will carry its first betting-oriented alternate production of a National Basketball Association game with the debut of its Daily Wager Special on both ESPN+ and ESPN2
Football
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Major League Soccer's DC United has announced local broadcast deals with NBC Sports Washington and Telemundo's multicast network TeleXitos for the 2021 and 2022 seasons
Multi-Sport
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David Nugent, the chief commercial officer at iX.co, the digital media and solutions company owned by the Infront agency, is leaving his position
Football
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Major League Soccer's New England Revolution has named CBS Boston as its new local broadcast partner, replacing NBC Sports Boston
Football
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The USL League One game between Greenville Triumph SC and Union Omaha on May 16 is scheduled to air on ESPN2, marking the first time that the third-tier league will appear on national television in the …
Athletics
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The Penn Relays, the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States, has struck a five-year digital rights deal with streaming service FloSports through 2025.
Football
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Italy’s Serie A will enjoy a significant increase in the value of its US media rights for the second cycle in a row after securing a deal with ViacomCBS from 2021-22.
Football
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US media group Univision has acquired exclusive Spanish-language rights to the 2021 Copa América, paying less than its rival Telemundo did for the 2019 edition of South America’s top-tier national football tournament.
Multi-Sport
USA

Meadowlark Media, the newly formed content venture formed by former DAZN chairman John Skipper and popular sports talk radio personality Dan Le Batard, has raised $12.6m (€10.7
Multi-Sport
USA

The YES Network, the regional sports network home for Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees, set a series of viewership records for its coverage of the club’s April 1 Opening Day game against Toronto.
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
USA

US Spanish-language media company Univision Communications has agreed a five-year extension to its rights deal with Combate Americas, with the mixed martial arts promotion rebranding to Combate Global…
Multi-Sport
USA

Entercom, a prominent Pennsylvania-based multiplatform audio company, has rebranded itself to Audacy, effective immediately, signaling its broader corporate ambitions
Multi-Sport
USA

Prominent Massachusetts-based gaming company DraftKings is continuing its furious run of activity in 2021 by completing a deal to acquire the Vegas Sports Information Network Inc
Multi-Sport
Global

International broadcaster Eleven has completed a deal to acquire American digital media entity Team Whistle in an agreement aimed at forging greater synergies between entities already within the portfolio…
Horse Racing
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Fox Sports is accelerating its transition from a media outlet to both a content producer and gaming company through a new rights deal with the New York Racing Association that also gives the network an…
Multi-Sport
USA

CBS Sports has retained prominent announcer Jim Nantz, the longtime face of the network’s sports coverage, in a new contract following a lengthy and protracted negotiation.
Football
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The CBS Sports division of US network CBS has continued a busy week of soccer rights acquisitions by announcing details of its coverage of Argentinian club competitions