USA

Boxing

US pay-television broadcaster Showtime has signed a deal to broadcast coverage of fights featuring British heavyweight world champion boxer Anthony Joshua.

Cricket

Cricket Australia has opened a tender process for rights to a number of the country’s national team and domestic league properties in the US, Canada and the Caribbean for the five-year period covering the 2016-17 to 2020-21 seasons.

Multi-sport

The Vice Sports division of media company Vice Media has agreed a deal to produce an exclusive short-form series for sports broadcaster ESPN.

Olympics

The NBC Olympics division of US media company NBCUniversal has agreed a content partnership with social media platform Snapchat for the 2016 Olympic Games and the US Olympic team trials.

US collegiate marketing agency JMI Sports has agreed a multimedia rights deal with the athletics division of the University of Pennsylvania.

Athletics

The USA Track & Field national governing body has opted to switch its free online streaming service to a subscription-based model.

American Football

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL American football franchise has entered into a multi-year local rights partnership with WOFL-TV/Fox 35, a regional television channel operated by media company 21st Century Fox.

Volleyball

US pay-television broadcaster Turner Sports has agreed a multi-year rights deal for the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s new Beach Volleyball Championship.

Multi-sport

Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission, has recommended that the regulator should approve the proposed merger of Charter Communications and fellow pay-television operator Time Warner Cable.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has signed a multimedia rights deal with the athletics division of Michigan State University.

Multi-sport

US telecommunications company Verizon is the leading contender to acquire internet company Yahoo’s online business following the closure of the first round of bidding, according to multiple reports.

American Football

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox is reportedly close to acquiring media rights for the collegiate sports championships of the Big Ten Conference, a deal that would signal the end of sports broadcaster ESPN’s current agreement for the complete rights package.

American Football

US college Arizona State has settled its long-running dispute with the IMG College agency over the multimedia rights contract that previously existed between the two parties.

Football

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has agreed a one-season extension to its rights deal with the National Women’s Soccer League, the top division of women’s football in the United States.

Minor Sports

The World Flying Disc Federation has confirmed that US pay-television broadcaster CBS Sports Network will provide coverage of this year’s World Ultimate Championships.

Basketball

The CBS network and pay-television broadcaster Turner Broadcasting System have extended rights for the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division 1 men’s basketball championship, also known as March Madness.

Outfront Media Sports, the US marketing and media company that was previously known as CBS Collegiate Sports Properties and operated as part of the CBS network, has extended its multimedia rights deal with the athletics division of Louisiana State University.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights in the US to domestic motorcycling series MotoAmerica.