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US pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights for the 2014 Mosconi Cup pool event.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN International has said its entire output will be broadcast in high-definition across Latin America from 2015.

ESPN’s desire for football content after losing out on the Champions League has helped Uefa achieve a significant rise in the value of the Europa League in Brazil.

US sports broadcaster ESPN will utilise the 2015 Cricket World Cup to begin a new initiative of selling stand-alone streaming subscriptions for some sports programming, according to the Re/code website.

The acquisition of the Champions League rights earlier this month paves the way for Brazilian commercial channel Esporte Interativo to enter the pay-television market, while simultaneously damaging its future rival ESPN.

US pay-television broadcaster ESPN Deportes has acquired Spanish-language rights for this month's Central American and Caribbean Games multi-sport event.

There are three main reasons why the National Basketball Association secured a 180-per-cent increase in the value of its domestic media rights this month, according to US rights experts.

US network ABC and cable-television broadcaster Turner Broadcasting System have struck long-term media-rights extensions for the NBA basketball league, according to the Wall Street Journal newspaper.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights to the new Fall Experimental Football League (FXFL) American football development competition, according to Forbes.

US sports broadcaster ESPN is to broadcast coverage of the 2014 World Cup of Pool to audiences in the country.

ESPN president John Skipper has said that the US pay-television sports broadcaster would like to be offered as part of smaller as well as larger cable-television packages.

Fox Sports Latin America and ESPN International were forced to increase their fee for the Uefa Champions League and Europa League pay-television rights in Latin America this month to see off aggressive rival bids from Qatari-owned broadcaster beIN Sports and Spanish telco Telefónica.

The CAA Eleven agency completed a host of new deals for Uefa European Qualifiers rights at the end of July, with strong results in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

Golf’s PGA Tour has extended a rights deal with pay-television broadcaster ESPN International in Latin America and the Caribbean.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed a new long-term media rights deal with the Mid-American Conference US collegiate sports competition.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights for the Uefa Champions League European club football competition in a sublicensing deal with the Fox Sports Media Group division of the Fox network.