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US sports broadcaster ESPN has struck a multi-year extension to its rights deal with college sports organisation the Big South Conference
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US media company Comcast has today (Thursday) announced it will end its pursuit of the assets 21st Century Fox has agreed to sell to the Walt Disney Company in favour of concentrating on its takeover bid…
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Digital sports media company Perform has revealed that its DAZN OTT platform will launch in the US on September 10 priced at $9.99 (€8.5
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US sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed a rights deal to cover the new beach volleyball series being launched by America’s multi-Olympic gold medallist Kerri Walsh Jennings.
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Comcast has moved swiftly to counter the enhanced takeover offer submitted by 21st Century Fox for pan-European pay-television broadcaster Sky by entering a new bid to exceed that of its rival US media…
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US Imagina, a division of sports media group Imagina, has been ordered to pay $24m (€20.5m) after pleading guilty yesterday (Tuesday) to bribing Latin American football officials.
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ESPN+, the US sports broadcaster’s subscription streaming service, will hold live and exclusive rights to the comeback fight of Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao.

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DAZN has agreed two more combat sports deals since its joint venture with Matchroom Boxing, but all three deals contain clauses that would allow the Perform-owned streaming platform to quickly shift its content strategy

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Telemundo’s deal for Spanish-language rights to the 2019 Copa América ensures most matches will be shown free-to-air in the US – a key consideration for MP & Silva and Conmebol ahead of sponsorship sales around the tournament

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DAZN, the OTT platform operated by digital sports media company Perform, has acquired rights in the US for the World Boxing Super Series.

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Spanish-language sports broadcaster Telemundo Deportes has acquired rights in the US to the 2019 edition of the Copa América national team football tournament.

Golden Boy Promotions has struck a deal with Facebook that will allow the social media platform to stream live coverage of a series of the promoter’s boxing events.

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The NBC Sports division of US media company NBCUniversal has added video-sharing platform YouTube as a new rights partner for the second season of the Rocket League, the esports competition it organises alongside competitive gaming platform FACEIT.

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The San Francisco 49ers NFL American football franchise will set a league first by live streaming each of its four 2018 preseason games via its official website.

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Walt Disney has secured US antitrust approval to acquire most of rival media company 21st Century Fox’s assets on the condition that it offloads 22 regional sports channels, according to the Justice Department.

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US wrestling organisation WWE has today (Wednesday) sealed a new domestic rights deal with the Fox Sports division of the Fox network and has extended its long-running partnership with cable-television broadcaster USA Network, stating that the agreements provide a substantial increase in the value of its US distribution.

Sports producer and distributor Sunset+Vine has landed the host broadcaster contract for the 2018 World Equestrian Games.

DAZN, the live and on-demand streaming service owned by digital sports media specialist Perform, has bolstered its combat sports content by agreeing a multi-year rights deal with US mixed martial arts promotion Bellator.