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SRO Motorsports Group, promoter of the GT Series, has sealed a number of new rights deals ahead of the start of the 2015 season of the motor racing championship.

US network CBS has acquired rights for the new Premier Boxing Champions series operated by manager and adviser Al Haymon.

The CBS network’s renewal of its deal with the US National Football League for its Thursday Night Football package underlines the incredible power of the league in the US television market.

US pay-television broadcaster CBS Sports Network has agreed a five-year rights extension with the Army Athletic Association for the body’s college American football games.

US networks CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC, along with the IMG and WME agencies, have joined forces to apply for the dismissal of a legal action brought by a group of college American football and basketball players, claiming it would mean “chaos” for sports broadcasting.

US satellite-television company Dish Network has agreed a multi-year extension to continue its carriage of the CBS network’s various stations and cable channels, including the CBS Sports Network pay-television service.

Organisers of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games have secured new broadcast rights deals in the US and Caribbean ahead of the start of the multi-sport event on July 23.

Online streaming service Aereo has suspended its operations following last week’s ruling by the US Supreme Court that it breaches the copyright of major sports leagues and their broadcast partners.

The future of Aereo is in serious doubt after the US Supreme Court backed claims from major leagues and their broadcast partners that the online streaming service breaches copyright rules.

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS network and UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport have acquired rights for the DTM German touring cars series.

US pay-television broadcaster CBS Sports Network has acquired rights for motor-racing’s 2014 GT Series.

The International Olympic Committee has robustly defended last week’s long-term deal with US media group NBCUniversal on the three key areas in which it has come under scrutiny.

The NFL has no intention of shifting to a pay-television only model in the future, according to Brian Rolapp, chief operating officer of the American football league’s NFL Media division.

Spurs Sports & Entertainment, the owning and operating group of NBA basketball franchise San Antonio Spurs, has announced a multi-year extension to its local rights deal with CBS-affiliated television channel Kens-TV.

Major League Soccer club FC Dallas has agreed one-year extensions to its local rights deals with cable-television operator Time Warner Cable Sports and the TXA21 channel, which is owned by the CBS network.

The Automobile Racing Club of America has agreed a deal with CBS Sports Network for the cable-television channel to televise at least three live events from the ARCA Racing Series this year.