USA

Multi-sport

Professional services group PwC has released its annual Sports Outlook report, which forecasts that the North American sports market will grow at a compound annual rate of 3.2 per cent, from $71.1bn (€64.2
Skiing

NBC Sports Group has retained media rights in the US market to events that fall under the auspices of US Ski & Snowboard in a renewal that runs until the end of the 2021-22 season
Olympic Games

Jim Bell has announced he will leave his role as president of the NBC Olympics Production and Programming division of NBCUniversal less than a year before the US media company prepares to cover the 2020…
Football

Following the Bundesliga's new media-rights deal with ESPN in the United States, which begins in 2020, the German league's chief executive Christian Seifert has revealed he was disappointed by the league's…
Baseball

Facebook is exclusively live streaming in the US all 32 games from the World Baseball Softball Confederation's 2019 Premier12 national team baseball tournament, which started on Saturday in Mexico
Multi-sport

Barry Frank, a leading US television executive and negotiator of Olympic broadcast deals in the US market for the IMG agency, has died aged 87
Skiing

International pay-TV broadcaster beIN Media Group has agreed a multi-year rights deal covering the USA, Canada and Australia with the Ski Classics series of long-distance skiing events.
NFL

The National Football League has announced it will add its content to a variety of music streaming platforms including Pandora, TuneIn, Tidal, Spotify and SoundCloud in its attempts to expand its digital footprint.
Boxing

OTT sports streaming service DAZN has agreed a partnership in the US with social media platform Snapchat designed to promote its boxing content
Baseball

Major League Baseball and Fox Sports narrowly avoided setting a record for the least-watched World Series opener ever on US television
XFL

ABC will broadcast the first game of the rebooted XFL, between the DC Defenders and Seattle Dragons, at Audi Field in Washington, DC, on Saturday, February 8, at 2pm ET.
Football

The Octagon agency will prioritise domestic and global media-rights deals as it seeks to maximise the reach and revenue of the National Women’s Soccer League, the top US women’s football league, from 202…
American Football

The National Football League Players Association and NFL Media have agreed to a multi-year deal to broadcast the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl live on NFL Network through 2024
Football

The Bundesliga is taking a calculated gamble in its new US media-rights deal, with ESPN, as despite the huge increase in the rights fee the deal involves a significant reduction in linear television exposure.
Motorsport

North American stock-car racing series Nascar has struck an agreement with US commercial and pay-television broadcaster NBC Sports to deliver live coverage of its esports championship for the first time
Baseball

Major League Baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates have signed a multi-year extension of their local TV rights deal with AT&T SportsNet, the second such team to do so with the network in the past week.
Golf

In a first for golf, the PGA Tour will livestream every shot from every player over all four rounds from the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, on March 12-15, 2020.
Multi-sport

After a 10-day impasse, Fox and Dish Network ended their carriage dispute at the weekend which had prevented millions of the satellite provider's subscribers from watching Thursday Night Football as well …