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US entertainment studio Warner Bros. has signed a content creation partnership with SpringHill Entertainment, a company co-founded by basketball superstar LeBron James.

North America’s National Basketball Association has confirmed a pricing strategy as it expands the remit of its out-of-market live game service, NBA League Pass, to allow fans to purchase single game and individual team packages for the first time from the 2015-16 season.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has extended its rights deal with the Southern Conference college sports organisation.

US telecommunications company AT&T’s proposed $48.5bn (€44bn) takeover of satellite television provider DirecTV is set to close after the Federal Communications Commission said it would recommend that the transaction be approved.

US network ABC will receive more primetime sports on weekends following a new partnership struck with sports broadcaster ESPN covering the NBA basketball league.

The Learfield Sports agency has signed a multimedia rights agreement with the athletics division of Saint Louis University in the US.

Aaron Davidson, who was head of the Traffic Sports US division, has been “actively engaged in plea negotiations” since his arrest as part of an investigation into football corruption in May, according to a filing in a federal court in New York.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against American football’s NFL and pay-television operator DirecTV by antitrust attorney Michael Hausfeld and colleagues at the Hausfeld law company.

MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and internet company of Major League Baseball, is unlikely to carry out an initial public offering, according to senior MLB executive Bob Bowman.

Fox Sports has struck a deal to replace rival US pay-television broadcaster ESPN as the rights-holder of the National Hot Rod Association motor-racing series.

The beIN Media Group has acquired rights for a number of competitions operated by the European Handball Federation.

Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr. is reportedly considering making his planned career swansong in September this year available on free-to-air television in the US.

The Learfield Sports agency has further expanded its portfolio of US collegiate rights by acquiring Front Row Marketing Services’ collegiate multimedia rights properties from Comcast Spectator, part of US media company Comcast.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has extended its long-term rights deal for the Southland Conference US college sports conference.

The US national team’s victory over Japan in the final of the 2015 Fifa Women’s World Cup attracted a record television audience for a football match in the US.

US pay-television sports broadcaster Universal Sports Network has signed a multi-year carriage deal with national cable distributor Suddenlink.