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US sports broadcaster ESPN has extended its rights partnership with the World Series of Poker (WSOP).

The Street League Skateboarding (SLS) series has agreed rights deals with US sports broadcaster ESPN, the ABC network and new digital subscription service ETN.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has signed a multi-year extension to its rights deal for the Basketball Tournament, a US-based amateur, single-elimination competition.

Argentina’s Primera División is beset by uncertainty as a leaderless football association – its government funding withdrawn and a new season imminent – fields offers for its media rights and searches for a new president.

International sports broadcaster ESPN has secured a multi-year rights deal with boxing promoter Golden Boy Promotions.

The NFL American football league suffered an eight per cent year-on-year drop in US television viewership during its 2016 regular season, according to data obtained by ESPN.com.

Nielsen has stuck by a recent report by the audience data measurement company that outlined a significant fall in ESPN subscribers, despite being challenged by the US pay-television sports broadcaster.

ESPN’s multi-faceted agreement with telco Econet’s Kwesé TV pay-television platform brings the sports broadcaster back to sub-Saharan Africa after an absence of more than three years.

ESPN’s sport subscription streaming service is now set to launch in 2017 and could include an à la carte model allowing users to buy individual events or sports, according to Bob Iger, chief executive of the US sports broadcaster’s owner, the Walt Disney media company.

US sports broadcaster ESPN will launch a new multi-sport subscription streaming service after its owner, the Walt Disney media company, confirmed an investment in BAMTech, the video technology business of MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media arm of Major League Baseball.

US college sports organisation the Atlantic Coast Conference has confirmed the launch of its own network after agreeing an extension to its rights deal with US sports broadcaster ESPN.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN International has agreed a four-season extension to its rights deal with the NFL American football league in Spanish-speaking Latin America.

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN and Sony Pictures Network India (SPN), formerly known as Multi Screen Media, have launched a new mobile-first, multi-sport digital offering in India.

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN has extended and expanded a deal in Australia and New Zealand for the North American NBA basketball league.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox is reportedly close to acquiring media rights for the collegiate sports championships of the Big Ten Conference, a deal that would signal the end of sports broadcaster ESPN’s current agreement for the complete rights package.

Sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed a global rights distribution deal with the International Drone Racing Association, a worldwide organisation for first-person-view drone racing.