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US sports broadcaster Universal Sports Network, a subsidiary of the NBC network, has acquired rights for the inaugural La Course by Le Tour de France cycling race on July 27.

US sports broadcaster ESPN is considering selling online access to live Major League Soccer games to consumers without pay-television subscriptions, according to Reuters.

Regional US broadcasters Wave-TV and WHAS-TV have acquired exclusive local rights in Louisville to show the Atlantic Coast Conference college sports competition.

AT&T will not intervene in satellite-television provider DirecTV’s talks over a new rights deal for the NFL American football Sunday Ticket package of programming, according to the US telecommunications company’s chief financial officer, John Stephens.

US pay-television broadcaster the Tennis Channel is to open up its TV Everywhere service to customers of distribution partner and pay-television operator Cox Communications.

US telecommunications company AT&T will be able to cancel its takeover of satellite-television provider DirectTV if the latter is unable to renew an exclusive rights deal for the NFL American football Sunday Ticket package of programming.

Independent regional broadcaster KDOC-TV has agreed a deal to become the official English-language local rights-holder of California-based Major League Soccer team Chivas USA.

US telecommunications company AT&T has agreed a $48.5bn (€34.9bn) deal to acquire satellite television provider DirecTV.

US pay-television broadcaster CBS Sports Network has acquired rights for motor-racing’s 2014 GT Series.

The International Olympic Committee has robustly defended last week’s long-term deal with US media group NBCUniversal on the three key areas in which it has come under scrutiny.

US broadcaster Univision has been named as the Spanish-language rights holder in the United States for the Copa América Centenario national team football tournament, which will take place in the country in June 2016.

US media company NBCUniversal has struck a multi-year extension to its media rights deal with the WWE wrestling organisation.

Interview with Timo Lumme, the IOC’s managing director of television and marketing, about its new deal with NBCUniversal.

NHL ice hockey team Chicago Blackhawks has agreed a three-year extension to its partnership with local broadcast rights-holder WGN-TV.

ESPN president John Skipper has said the US sports broadcaster will bid for the next set of rights to football’s English Premier League, but added it would seek to partner with another media company.

The NBC Sports Group division of media company NBCUniversal has reached an agreement with the US Ski and Snowboard Association to broadcast the International Ski Federation’s (FIS) 2015 Alpine World Championships in Vail/Beaver Creek.