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A class-action lawsuit has been filed against American football’s NFL and pay-television operator DirecTV by antitrust attorney Michael Hausfeld and colleagues at the Hausfeld law company.

Austrian commercial broadcaster Puls 4 has agreed a three-year extension to its rights deal with American football league the NFL.

The NFL American football league is set to receive unprecedented free-to-air coverage in Germany under an agreement with commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1.

The NFL’s deal with Yahoo for the 2015 International Series game earlier this month was driven by a desire to test the online waters.

American football league the NFL has appointed senior Microsoft executive Jordan Levin to the new role of senior vice-president and chief content officer.

The NFL American football league has suspended its controversial broadcast ‘blackout’ policy for the 2015 season.

The NFL will experiment with streaming live coverage of the American football league via online platforms on a global basis next season.

MP & Silva’s deal to distribute National Football League rights in Europe is a “landmark” deal for the agency, according to senior vice president Daniel Cohen.

Interview with Daniel Cohen, senior vice president, the Americas, at MP & Silva on the agency’s new NFL deal.

The MP & Silva agency has agreed a deal to market the NFL American football league’s media rights across 42 European territories.

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, looks at television audiences for Super Bowl XLIX

The NFL American football league has launched an in-stadium app providing video content for fans attending its Super Bowl showpiece game in Phoenix on Sunday.

American football league the NFL has signed a partnership with YouTube creating an official channel for the organisation on the video-sharing platform.

The NFL American football league has extended a rights deal for the Thursday Night Football package with the CBS network in the US.

The media distribution arm of pay-television broadcaster ESPN has agreed one-year rights deals for African pay-television providers Supersport and Zuku Sport for coverage of this year’s NFL American football league playoffs and Super Bowl championship game.

American football league the NFL has bolstered its online video offering by agreeing a partnership with social media platform Facebook, according to the Wall Street Journal newspaper.

The National Football League’s (NFL) controversial ‘blackout’ policy has come under further pressure after senators from both US political parties warned the American football competition to end the rule or risk congressional action to restrict its lucrative antitrust exemption, which allows teams to negotiate television broadcast rights together.

WEWS NewsChannel 5, the ABC affiliate of media company E.W. Scripps, has agreed a multi-year local broadcast rights deal with NFL American football team Cleveland Browns.