National Hockey League (NHL)

North American ice hockey league the NHL has stepped up its engagement with the Chinese market by agreeing a partnership with micro-content platform Dongtu
USA

The National Hockey League has agreed a new multi-year global content deal with social media platform Snapchat

Swiss pay-television broadcaster Teleclub has renewed National Hockey League rights, solidifying a key ice hockey property amid competition from telco UPC

The IMG agency has renewed its multi-territory betting rights deal with the NHL until 2020-21, having held rights since 2013

Scott Moore, president of Sportsnet and NHL properties at Canadian telco Rogers, will leave at the end of this month after eight years at the helm

Pay-television platform Sky Italia and Perform Group’s OTT service DAZN will probably both be happy with the outcome of an intense period of rights negotiations in Italy.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has renewed its National Hockey League sublicensing deal on more favourable terms, TV Sports Markets understands.

USA

Pay-television broadcaster NHL Network has extended a rights partnership with USA Hockey.

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

Digital sports news agency SendtoNews has secured a digital rights distribution deal with North American ice hockey league the NHL.

The German handball league, the Handball-Bundesliga, will receive bids for its domestic media rights one week from today, TV Sports Markets understands.

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has renewed a rights deal for the NHL North American ice hockey league.

Pay-television broadcaster Premier Sports is close to renewing its deal for National Hockey League rights in the UK for which it will pay an increase of about 25 per cent, TV Sports Markets understands.

German sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights to this year’s edition of ice hockey’s World Cup of Hockey national team event.

USA

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has signed a multi-year live streaming partnership with North American ice hockey league the NHL.

Social media platform Twitter has secured live streaming rights to Major League Baseball and National Hockey League games under a deal with MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and internet arm of the North American baseball league.

Chinese internet company Tencent has agreed a six-season deal for digital rights to North America’s National Hockey League.