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Major League Baseball franchise the San Diego Padres is targeting a Mexican broadcast rights deal as it prepares to return to the market.

North American basketball league the NBA has entered into a digital media partnership in the UK market with the GiveMeSport platform.

US sports broadcaster ESPN will not enter a bid for the NFL American football league’s Thursday Night Football package, according to a report.

North American sports broadcaster One World Sports has secured a deal with Harvard University’s athletics department to broadcast coverage of matches featuring the US college’s ice hockey teams.

American Sports Network, a subsidiary of US broadcasting company Sinclair Networks Group, has secured rights to the country’s new Major League Football (MLFB) spring American football competition.

US pay-television broadcaster Univision Deportes has acquired exclusive Spanish-language rights in the country for all national team competitions operated by Uefa, football’s European governing body.

Bill Rasmussen, founder of sports broadcaster ESPN, has launched a new company with proprietary technology which aims to significantly improve and enhance the fan experience at live sports events in venues of all sizes.

American football league the NFL is planning to live stream all three International Series games scheduled to be played in London next season, with technology giants Apple and Google in contention for the rights, according to Reuters.

North American Major League Soccer club Orlando City has entered into a multi-year local rights partnership with Cox Media Group, a subsidiary of US media company Cox Enterprises.

The Learfield Sports agency has expanded its US collegiate sports portfolio by striking a multimedia rights deal with Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

The US Federal Communications Commission is to delay its decision over the proposed merger of Charter Communications and fellow pay-television operator Time Warner Cable.

Major League Baseball is poised to grant fans the ability to purchase single-team, out-of-market packages for its streaming service on the MLB.tv platform, according to multiple reports.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has struck a deal with the CBS network to broadcast coverage of next month’s NFL Super Bowl American football championship game on its ESPN Deportes Spanish-language channel for the first time.

The NBC Sports Group division of US media group NBCUniversal has extended and expanded its partnership with internet company Yahoo.

US television broadcasting company Sinclair Networks Group has secured a local rights deal with North American Major League Soccer club DC United.

The Learfield Sports agency has secured new multimedia rights partnerships with Texas A&M University and Dartmouth College in the US.