USA

Motorsport

North American stock car-racing series Nascar has revamped its leadership across its content and marketing divisions with a host of new appointments.

Satellite-television broadcaster DirecTV will be operated as separate unit when telecommunications company AT&T completes its takeover of US media company Time Warner, according to the Reuters news agency.

Football

US sports broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights to Hispanic mixed martial arts series Combate Americas’ upcoming ‘Combate Clásico’ event.

Basketball

Sports streaming specialist FloSports has agreed a multi-year deal with Basketball Travelers Inc., which organises tours featuring top US basketball universities.

Baseball

The Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals are at odds over their respective positions following the latest legal ruling in a long-running case concerning the latter Major League Baseball franchise’s revenue payments from US regional cable-television broadcaster MASN.

Golf

The PGA of America has said it will not extend its UK rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Sky for the PGA Championship, one of golf’s four major tournaments, in favour of exploring a new model for the event.

Multi-sport

NBA basketball legend Kobe Bryant has invested in 15 Seconds of Fame, a new social media platform that delivers personal video content to fans at live events.

US College Sport

The Learfield Sports agency has agreed a multimedia rights partnership with the athletics department of Northern Arizona University in the US.

Action Sports

The X Games has agreed a partnership with Korean consumer electronics company Samsung that will result in the action sports competition being presented in virtual reality for the first time.

Rugby League

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has acquired rights in the US to the games of Canadian rugby league team Toronto Wolfpack, which has been labelled the world’s first transatlantic sports club.

Multi-sport

Jamie Horowitz has been fired as the head of programming at the Fox Sports division of US network Fox.

Softball

US sports broadcaster ESPN has sealed a rights deal with USA Softball to show coverage of the annual World Cup of Softball.

Football

The NBC Sports Group division of US media company NBCUniversal has said it will launch a new direct-to-consumer live streaming service for its coverage of the English Premier League ahead of the 2017-18 season of the club football competition.

Football

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has teamed up with Facebook to stream live coverage of the Uefa Champions League European club football tournament

American Football

Sports broadcaster ESPN has exercised an option to extend a rights deal in the US for Brigham Young University’s American football games.
Baseball

Consumer electronics company Samsung has partnered with North America’s Major League Baseball to provide fans with a virtual reality offering for the remainder of the 2017 season.
Ice Hockey

Social media platform Twitter has agreed a deal to live stream matches from US ice hockey competition the National Women’s Hockey League.
Esports

The NBC Sports Group division of US media company NBCUniversal has made its first major entry into esports by partnering with online competitive gaming platform FACEIT and games developer Psyonix to launch a new tournament.