Major League Soccer (MLS)

LeTV Sports, a new sports-rights venture operated by Chinese IPTV operator LeTV, has acquired rights for North America’s Major League Soccer.

Major League Soccer will enjoy a substantial increase in exposure in Brazil in the 2015 season, which got under way at the end of March.

Abu Dhabi Media Company has reached an agreement for the pay-television and free-to-air rights to North America’s Major League Soccer in the Middle East and North Africa.

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Globosat has agreed a four-year rights deal with North America’s Major League Soccer.

Pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport is thought to be paying a strong rights fee for Major League Soccer rights across Europe, excluding the UK, in its four-year deal agreed last week.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has secured exclusive live rights for North American football competition Major League Soccer.

North America’s Major League Soccer has sold KickTV, its global media platform with a core presence on YouTube, to London-based digital media company Copa90.

Major League Soccer expansion franchise New York City FC has announced a multi-year agreement to make regional pay-television sports broadcaster Yes Network its exclusive local television partner ahead of its 2015 debut in the North American club football competition.

Major League Soccer said it chose the IMG Events & Media agency to handle its media rights because the agency was “aggressive” in its plans, and shared the league’s philosophy about creating a long-term partnership to build the MLS profile globally.

Interview with Gary Stevenson, president and managing director of MLS Business Ventures, on the new MLS/SUM eight-year deal with IMG Events & Media.

The IMG agency has agreed a deal to market and distribute the global media rights to Major League Soccer and U.S. Soccer properties for the next eight years.

Independent regional broadcaster KDOC-TV has agreed a deal to become the official English-language local rights-holder of California-based Major League Soccer team Chivas USA.

The top US football league, Major League Soccer, and the country’s national football association, US Soccer, enjoyed a five-fold increase in the value of their domestic media rights at the end of a long and complex set of negotiations with broadcasters ESPN, Fox and Univision Deportes.

US pay-television broadcasters ESPN, Fox Sports and Univision Deportes have acquired rights for Major League Soccer, North America’s top football league, and the US men’s and women’s national teams.

Major League Soccer club the New York Red Bulls has agreed a multi-year extension to its regional rights partnership with MSG Networks, the pay-television channel owned by New York sports venue Madison Square Garden.

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.