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Baseball
Finance & Law

Major League Baseball is reported to be planning to stream games for free for around six teams due to the increasing likelihood of the bankruptcy of Diamond Sports Group, which owns the Bally Sports stations…
Football
Data

The Sportfive agency has signed an extension to its international media rights distribution deal with the United Soccer League and has taken on an additional betting rights remit
Multiple Sports
Data

Sports data and betting services company Genius Sports posted revenue of $341m (€320m) for the 2022 financial year, narrowly ahead of projections, as group net loss dropped considerably from $592.8
Basketball
Media

Warner Bros. Discovery and CBS Sports, which hold domestic broadcast rights to the National Collegiate Athletic Association's men's basketball March Madness tournament, have "virtually sold out" of their advertising inventory.
Football
Finance & Law

Hernan Lopez, the former chief executive at Fox International Channels, has been convicted of participating in a scheme to pay bribes to South American football officials, while the Full Play agency has…
US College Sport
Media

Baylor Athletics has signed a new 10-year multimedia rights agreement with sports marketing and media company Playfly Sports Properties.
Football
Media

CBS Sports has announced a free 24-hour, soccer-specific streaming channel called CBS Sports Golazo Network
Basketball
Media

The Women's National Basketball Association has announced its 2023 schedule on broadcast partner ESPN and other Disney-owned networks such as ABC and ESPN2
Multiple Sports
Fan Engagement

Boston-based data company Sports Innovation Lab and Ally Financial have launched the Women's Sports Club in an effort to create equitable media spend on women's sports properties
Golf
Host Broadcast & Production

Netflix has announced that it has renewed its golf and tennis documentary series "Full Swing" and "Break Point" for second seasons
Baseball
Media

Spanish-language broadcaster TUDN Audio Network has reached an agreement to cover the upcoming World Baseball Classic
Tennis
Media

Tennis Channel, the single-sport streaming service owned by Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group, has agreed a carriage deal in the US with Vidgo
Multiple Sports
Media

US sports broadcaster ESPN is reported to be considering introducing a service whereby it would direct users to other streaming platforms in an effort to position itself as the “TV guide of live sports”.

For YouTube, as a sports content platform, the deal represents a dramatic acceleration of its ambitions in pay-television in the US.
Baseball
Media

Major League Baseball has named FanDuel a co-exclusive official sports betting partner in North America in a multi-year deal that will include FanDuel's app and OTT platform FanDuel+ airing MLB
Baseball
Media

Major League Baseball has added three executives to its new local media department amid financial struggles for 17 teams' regional sports networks (RSN) at Bally Sports and AT&T SportsNet
Baseball
Media

DirecTV will sponsor USA Baseball's team at the upcoming 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC) in a deal that includes a jersey patch on the left sleeve of the Americans' uniforms
Football
Data

Major League Soccer has agreed a multi-year deal with sports technology companies Sportec Solutions and Deltatre to create data feeds from all MLS matches for Apple’s MLS Season Pass service.