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Digital sports content and media group Perform has struck a multi-year deal with the NFL to market the American football league’s broadcast rights in over 100 countries and territories across the world.

Digital rights to Thursday Night Football will again be a test bed for the NFL and a new entrant in 2017, after Amazon acquired the package won by Twitter last year.
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E-commerce and media company Amazon has acquired live streaming rights to the NFL American football league’s Thursday Night Football franchise, according to multiple reports.

Germany’s Bundesliga more than doubled the value of its in-flight and in-ship rights in a renewal with IMG this month.

In the latest interactive monthly data report, TV Sports Markets analyses media-rights in the US major leagues: MLB, the NBA, the NFL and the NHL

In the latest interactive monthly data report, TV Sports Markets analyses media-rights in the US major leagues: MLB, the NBA, the NFL and the NHL
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The NFL American football league has appointed Mary Ann Turcke, a former executive at Canadian telecommunications company Bell Media, as president of digital media and the NFL Network.

The IMG agency has signed a four-season extension to its in-flight rights deal with the NFL American football league.
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The OpenTV software subsidiary of digital security company Kudelski Group has filed a lawsuit against the NFL in relation to the American football league’s live streaming and related video services.
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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.
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US network CBS has agreed a deal with the NFL American football league to add live coverage of games to its ‘CBS All Access’ streaming service.

The NFL has expanded a partnership with internet giant Google to allow viewers around the world to watch content from the American football league in virtual reality.

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CBS chairman and chief executive Les Moonves has said the US network is working on a deal with American football league the NFL to stream games on its over-the-top platform, CBS All Access.

Multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster Modern Times Group has extended a rights deal with the NFL American football league in the Nordic region.

The NFL will this week impose fresh restrictions on the videos its teams can post to social media, according to a report by US sports broadcaster ESPN.

Digital sports media content company Whistle Sports has secured a social media-focused partnership with American football league the NFL.

Digital sports media company Perform Group has agreed a deal with the NFL to commercialise the American football league’s digital assets in Australia for the 2016-17 season.

African telco Econet has continued to spend its billion-dollar sports-rights acquisition budget in recent weeks, buying Formula One, National Football League and Brazilian football rights.