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The NBC Olympics division of US media company NBCUniversal has extended its partnership with social media platform Snapchat to cover the 2018 winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

US network NBC has committed to complete live coverage of a winter Olympic Games for the first time, with the impact of social media cited as a key reason behind the move for next year’s event in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Pay-television broadcaster Superswiss has acquired rights for the German ice hockey league, the DEL, in the US.

Social media platform Twitter will face competition from at least three major rivals to extend its live streaming rights to the NFL American football league’s Thursday Night Football franchise.

The US Department of Justice has said it has reached a settlement in a case that saw it sue telco AT&T and its DirecTV satellite operator for allegedly acting as the “ringleader” of a series of unlawful information exchanges between DirecTV and three of its competitors during carriage talks for regional pay-television channel SportsNet LA.

Acquiring the distribution infrastructure of One World Sports was an opportunistic move to get into the US media-rights market with a “headstart”, according to Eleven Sports Network executive chairman Marc Watson.

Interview with Marc Watson, executive chairman of Eleven Sports Networks, about the channel's launch in the US on the back of acquiring One World Sports’ distribution assets.

American football league the NFL is poised to introduce substantial changes to how its games are broadcast on television as part of wider efforts to revamp presentation.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has acquired rights for Big3, a new three-on-three, half-court basketball league that will launch on June 25.

Technology giant Intel has signed a multi-year partnership to provide virtual reality content for US college sport, commencing with the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s 2017 Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, an event otherwise known as March Madness.

US mixed martial arts promotion Bellator is set to return to pay-per-view television for the first time since 2014 for an event held at Madison Square Garden in New York.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has acquired rights in the United States to the Emirates Airline Twenty20 cricket tournament, just days after making its entry into the American market.

The NBC Sports Group division of US media company NBCUniversal has retained the Vuelta a España and Tour Down Under in its cycling portfolio by striking extended rights deals for the events.

Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, has continued its transformation effort by selling off its free-to-air television, pay-television, digital and radio businesses in the Baltic region to US private equity investment firm Providence Equity Partners.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports has reached a deal to acquire “certain distribution assets” of troubled US broadcaster One World Sports.

North America’s National Lacrosse League has signed content partnerships with social media platform Twitter and over-the-top provider Xumo.