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Playfly Sports acquires trio of Fox Sports agencies
Pennsylvania-based sports marketing outfit Playfly Sports has completed an acquisition of three prior Fox Sports agencies - Home Team Sports, Impression Sports, and Fox Sports College Properties - that…
Team follows Brazil with Uefa club competitions rights tender in Latin America
Latin America is the latest territory in which invitations to submit offers have been issued for Uefa club competitions broadcast rights from 2021-22 to 2023-24
Amazon Prime aggregates Fox Sports into Mexican offering
The Amazon Prime subscription OTT platform has added content from pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports’ portfolio in Mexico.
Lauman Group ‘joins list’ of Fox Sports Mexico suitors
The Lauman Group, the parent of Mexican telco Comtelsat, has stepped forward as the latest party to express its interest in acquiring the Mexican arm of pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports
NFL Divisional playoff ratings slide 7 per cent
American television ratings for the National Football League’s Divisional round of the postseason averaged 30.6
NFL game on Nickelodeon proves to be substantial hit
Last weekend’s push by the National Football League and CBS Sports to engage younger audiences proved to be a substantial hit, as the specially designed production of a Wild Card playoff game on Nickelodeon g…
NFL ends 2020 regular season down 7 per cent in ratings
The National Football League, which battled a series of operational challenges related to the Covid-19 pandemic throughout its 2020 regular season, ended the schedule down 7 per cent in domestic television…
Liga MX side Santos Laguna sues Disney over alleged contract breach
The Walt Disney Company is being sued by Mexican Liga MX club Santos Laguna over allegations of contractual violation as a by-product of Disney’s 21st Century Fox acquisition in 2019.
Torneos and GSRM land Argentinian league international rights, Disney renews to 2030
Torneos, the Argentinian rights agency, and Global Sports Rights Management, the agency that holds international broadcast rights to the top two Brazilian football leagues, have formed an alliance to commercialise…
Torneos and GSRM land Argentinian league international rights, Disney renews to 2030
Torneos, the Argentinian rights agency, and Global Sports Rights Management, the agency that holds international broadcast rights to the top two Brazilian football leagues, have formed an alliance to commercialise…
NFL ‘poised to generate’ more than $100bn in new domestic rights deals
The National Football League is poised to generate more than $100bn (€82bn) in a series of new long-term domestic television rights deals, further highlighting just how powerful the sports property is t…
Mexican regulator hands Disney new deadline for Fox Sports sale, Mediapro ‘interested’
The Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT), Mexico’s telecoms regulator, has set a March 2021 deadline for Disney’s long-anticipated divestment of its Fox Sports business in the country.
Fox CFO suggests network could drop NFL Thursday package
Fox Corp. could elect to drop its Thursday night rights package with the National Football League if bidding becomes too high, the company’s chief financial officer said.
Sporting Kansas City-Minnesota United playoff game moved to secure primetime Fox window
Major League Soccer has pushed back the MLS Cup Western Conference Semifinal game between Sporting Kansas City and Minnesota United FC by one day to December 3 in order to secure a primetime broadcast…
Judge rejects AFA appeal to cancel Fox Sports’ Primera División contract
A judge in a commercial court has thrown out the Argentinian Football Association’s appeal to overturn a ruling reinstating pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports’ rights to the nation’s top tier of pr…
Judge rejects AFA appeal to cancel Fox Sports’ Primera División contract
A judge in a commercial court has thrown out the Argentinian Football Association’s appeal to overturn a ruling reinstating pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports’ rights to the nation’s top tier of pr…
Fox Sports broadcasts opening Primera División matches after injunction
Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports broadcast the opening weekend of the top-tier Primera División league in Argentina after an injunction was issued.
World Series TV ratings hit record low
Major League Baseball’s 2020 World Series, a six-game triumph for the Los Angeles Dodgers, ended with the event’s lowest-ever television ratings in the United States.