USA

US motorsport series AMA Pro Racing, IMSA and Nascar have joined forces to launch a new live streaming platform that will provide coverage to events not broadcast on television.

Basketball

Real-time highlights of basketball games from the Big East US college conference will be distributed to social media platforms and national website publishers under a deal with the WSC Sports Technologies media company.

Football

Major League Soccer club the New York Red Bulls has agreed a multi-year extension to its regional rights partnership with MSG Networks, the pay-television channel owned by New York sports venue Madison Square Garden.

Skateboarding

The Fox Sports division of US media company 21st Century Fox has agreed a multi-year rights partnership with Street League Skateboarding.

US agency Learfield Sports has agreed a deal to represent the multimedia rights of the athletics division of Temple University for the next 10 years.

Cricket

The MP & Silva agency has agreed a deal to distribute media rights for the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament in several territories, including the Indian subcontinent.

Gymnastics

USA Gymnastics has awarded media rights to NBC Sports Group, part of US media company NBCUniversal, and pay-television broadcaster Universal Sports Network, for the governing body’s events.

Football

Major League Soccer club FC Dallas has agreed one-year extensions to its local rights deals with cable-television operator Time Warner Cable Sports and the TXA21 channel, which is owned by the CBS network.

Baseball

Media company 21st Century Fox has completed a deal to increase its interest in US regional pay-television sports broadcaster Yes Network to a controlling 80-per-cent stake.

Baseball

Subscribers to Major League Baseball’s online streaming service, MLB.TV, will be able to access live coverage of the World Series for the first time, the North American league has announced.

Horse Racing

The NBC Sports Group, part of US media company NBCUniversal, has renewed an exclusive rights deal for the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks horse racing events.

Baseball

Australian commercial broadcaster Nine has acquired media rights for the US Major League Baseball season-opening games in Australia between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks.

Football

Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire has signed a one-year extension to its local television rights partnership with WPWR My50 Chicago covering the 2014 MLS season.

Tennis

The US Supreme Court has rejected pay-television broadcaster the Tennis Channel’s complaint against pay-television provider Comcast’s decision to carry the network on a premium sports tier in the latest development of long-running dispute between the two parties.

American Football

DirecTV and American football league the NFL have extended their exclusive negotiating period to renew the US satellite television provider’s exclusive rights to the Sunday Ticket package of programming, according to the company’s chairman and chief executive Mike White.

Wrestling

US pay-television provider Dish Network has said it will scale back its offering of pay-per-view (PPV) events staged by the WWE wrestling organisation, which will launch its own 24-hour pay-television streaming channel on Monday.

Wrestling

The WWE wrestling organisation is seeking bids for the broadcast rights to key properties such as Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown after its exclusive negotiating window with current rights-holder, US media company NBCUniversal, expired without the agreement of a new deal.

NBC Sports Group, a division of US media company NBCUniversal, has signed a multi-year extension to its broadcast rights deal with US motor racing series TORC: The Off-Road Championship.