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Multi-sport

ESPN+, ESPN’s direct-to-consumer sports streaming service, now has 7.6 million paid subscribers, Disney chief executive Bob Iger revealed in a quarterly earnings call. That is a huge climb from 3.5

Subscription platform seeking to expand sports presence through platform created by popular media figure Bill Simmons
American Football

Fox Sports' broadcast of Super Bowl LIV between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers averaged 99
Football

US sports broadcaster ESPN has reaffirmed its strategic commitment to football by paying a substantial sum for exclusive rights to the Spanish Copa del Rey knock-out competition.
Motorsport

The FIA World Rally Championship is close to announcing free-to-air broadcast deals in both Japan and Kenya ahead of stops in both countries on this year’s schedule.
Basketball

The Los Angeles Lakers' first game following the death of Kobe Bryant, against the Portland Trail Blazers on January 31, averaged 4.41m viewers on ESPN, according to Nielsen figures.
Golf

US sports broadcaster ESPN is close to agreeing a streaming rights deal with golf’s PGA Tour, according to the Associated Press.
Football

Leading Hispanic media company Univision has signed a deal with regional soccer federation Concacaf to gain the Spanish-language rights in the United States for both the women’s and men’s Olympic qualifying tou…
Football

Major League Soccer's DC United is in talks with regional sports network NBC Sports Washington over a local media-rights deal
NFL

US digital sports media outlet Bleacher Report this week is making a large-scale push at Super Bowl LIV for its new football content brand, B/R Gridiron
Football

US broadcaster Fox Sports and regional soccer federation Concacaf have agreed to a multi-year English-language rights deal, which includes the 2021 and 2023 Gold Cups as well as USA men’s and women’s Oly…
Multi-sport

Minute Media, a New York-based digital media conglomerate, has continued its aggressive run of dealmaking, acquiring FanSided from the Meredith Corp
Olympic Games

The NBC Olympics division of US media company NBCUniversal has extended its partnership with social media platform Snapchat to cover the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo
US College Sports

Boise State University has filed a legal complaint against the Mountain West Conference, alleging bad faith and breach of contract in the conference's new six-year, $270m television contract with CBS a…
Multi-sport

European pay-television broadcaster Sky recorded both revenue and subscriber increases for the fourth quarter of 2019, but a fall in total revenue for the full year, according to results presented today…
Basketball

Zion Williamson's highly-anticipated debut for the New Orleans Pelicans, in a nationally-televised prime-time game against the San Antonio Spurs on January 22, is expected to give the National Basketball…
Equestrian

International equestrian sports network Horse & Country TV (H&C) has acquired US equestrian streaming provider EQ Sports Net (EQSN), a deal it says will offer fans of the sport an experience unmatched…
American Football

Collective audience is smallest since 2009, bucking season-long audience improvement for league