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Canadian pay-television broadcaster TSN has renewed its highlights deal with Professional Bull Riders Canada for the 2019 season

Pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has extended its rights deal in the UK and Ireland to the Speedway World Championships

Social media platform Facebook has agreed a sub-licencing deal with pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports for the Copa Libertadores in South America

Digital terrestrial television broadcaster FreeSports has signed a deal with US-based Major League Wrestling to broadcast in the UK and Ireland its weekly MLW Fusion programme as well as special events

The Mediapro agency is set to launch a new OTT streaming platform, OneSoccer, to support its partnership with new club football competition the Canadian Premier League

US-media giant Discovery will broadcast a series of head-to-head matches involving Tiger Woods on its GolfTV OTT streaming platform, in an extension of the parties’ existing content partnership.

Eleven Sports has appointed Guillaume Collard as managing director for Belgium and Luxembourg, a role formerly held by current chief operating officer Anouk Mertens

Federación Panameña de Fútbol (FEPAFUT), the governing body of football in Panama, has agreed a four-year deal with the IMG agency to distribute its media rights internationally.

International sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed a multi-year deal for exclusive linear and digital rights to the English FA Cup across Spanish-speaking Latin America, the Caribbean and Australia

Media company Canal Plus Group, through its subsidiary K Plus, has acquired exclusive rights in Vietnam to football’s English Premier League. The three-season deal covers the 2019-20 to 2021-22 campaigns.