Roma renews NBC Sports partnership

Italian Serie A football club AS Roma has extended its broadcast partnership with the NBC Sports Regional Networks division of US media group NBCUniversal.

The agreement covers the 2015-16 season following a successful launch in the 2014-15 campaign.

Two-hour blocks of original Roma programming will air weekly in the California, Chicago, Mid-Atlantic, New England, Northwest and Philadelphia Comcast SportsNet markets.

This will include behind-the-scenes footage from Roma's Trigoria training facility, the Roma Now lifestyle show and a full replay of the club’s most recent Serie A match.

Roma is owned by a US consortium led by businessman Jim Pallotta. The group became the first foreign owners of a Serie A club after completing a takeover in 2011.