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Football

Digital pay-television platform FuboTV is looking to diversify its business in the latter half of 2021, acquiring exclusive digital streaming and betting rights in the US to South American qualifiers for the 2022 Fifa World Cup.
Ice Hockey

Turner Sports has prevailed in a high-stakes push to land hockey icon Wayne Gretzky as a lead analyst for its forthcoming National Hockey League coverage, according to industry sources and multiple reports,…
Polo

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has acquired rights to broadcast a monthly polo series in a deal with the United States Polo Association
Multi-sport

The Walt Disney Co. plans to close 100 of its international cable television channels this year as it continues to heavily emphasize its streaming operations in its long-term media strategy
Football

The United States Soccer Federation is bringing its commercial rights in-house, in turn ending a long-running relationship the Major League Soccer-controlled Soccer United Marketing that dates to 2004
Basketball

The National Basketball Association, a consistent first-mover in the maturation of the American legal sports betting landscape, is looking to help set the industry pace once again with the formation of…
Baseball

Derek Jeter, chief executive and co-owner of Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins and previously a New York Yankees superstar, is the latest prominent former athlete to get the in-depth documentary t…
Football

Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have secured a two-season docuseries on Disney-owned pay television channel FX charting their takeover of Welsh lower-league soccer club Wrexham AFC
NFL

Telemundo Deportes has secured the exclusive Spanish-language rights in the United States to Super Bowl LVI, which will be staged on February 13, 2022, at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, California
Football

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS has finalised a three-season deal for the rights to the top division of Brazilian club football, Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.
Multi-sport

US telecoms giant AT&T has spun off its media arm, WarnerMedia, and merged it with media group Discovery in a major agreement announced today (Monday)
Tennis

NBC Sports has expanded its French Open coverage in a deal in which streaming service Peacock will exclusively broadcast middle weekend night sessions
Football

The resale of LaLiga broadcast rights in the US and Canadian markets by beIN Media Group is expected to lead to a change of strategy at the subscription broadcaster with a heightened focused on its free…
Baseball

Major League Baseball has completed a long-anticipated, seven-year media rights renewal with ESPN, in turn finishing off its national domestic rights through 2028
Football

ESPN and LaLiga have finalized a wide-ranging long-term media rights deal that will make streaming service ESPN+ the principal English- and Spanish-language home for Spain's top-flight soccer league in…
NFL

The Walt Disney Co. confirmed it remains “in conversations” with the National Football League regarding the league’s out-of-market game package, NFL Sunday Ticket.
Football

Spanish football’s LaLiga is expected to announce a major broadcast deal with Disney’s ESPN that will come into force next season.
Basketball

Tech giant Amazon has expanded its sports streaming portfolio in a multiyear partnership with the Women’s National Basketball Association, which gives Prime Video exclusive global streaming rights to 16…