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American Football

American football league the NFL is planning to live stream all three International Series games scheduled to be played in London next season, with technology giants Apple and Google in contention for the rights, according to Reuters.

American Football

The Canadian Football League competition will stream live coverage of its end-of-season playoffs and Grey Cup finale via video-sharing platform YouTube.

Football

Spanish agency Mediapro has agreed deals with video-sharing website YouTube to plug gaps in the distribution of the international rights to the Copa del Rey and the beIN Sports pay-television channels in Spain.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has begun removing its videos from YouTube due to apparent concerns over rights issues ahead of the launch of the video-sharing website’s new subscription service.

Football

Spain's LaLiga has agreed a deal with the Mediapro agency to make coverage of the domestic Copa del Rey club tournament available on video-sharing website YouTube in 17 countries.

Football

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky and US cross-platform media network Whistle Sports have launched a new social media channel dedicated to creating original football content.

Football

The German Bundesliga rounded off its international sales cycle this month, with deals in Australia and New Zealand.

Athletics

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has revealed that this year’s edition of its showpiece World Championships will be broadcast in more than 200 territories around the world.

Basketball

NCAA Digital, a joint venture between the Turner Sports division of US cable-television broadcaster Turner Broadcasting Systems and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, has launched a channel on video-sharing website YouTube for this year’s NCAA March Madness basketball tournament.

Cycling

The International Cycling Union (UCI) will provide exclusive live coverage of Dame Sarah Storey’s Hour Record attempt via its official channel on video-sharing platform YouTube.

American Football

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

The International Floorball Federation has confirmed that it will provide live coverage of its 2014 Men’s World Floorball Championship national team event via video-sharing website YouTube.

Winter Sports

The FIS, the global governing body of skiing, is to stream live coverage of its 2015 Freestyle and Snowboard World Championships on video-sharing website YouTube.

Nascar Digital Media, the media arm of North American stock car-racing series Nascar, has agreed a deal with YouTube to stream complete race replays on the video-sharing website.

Golf

Organisers of golf’s Ryder Cup have launched an official channel for this year’s tournament on video-sharing website YouTube.

Football

Newspaper publisher Axel Springer has expanded the reach of its online highlights clips package for football’s German Bundesliga by agreeing a partnership with video-sharing website YouTube.

Multi-sport

Pac-12 Networks, the content and multi-platform media company for the Pac-12 US college sports conference, is to distribute programming to international audiences through a subscription channel on video-sharing website YouTube.

Multi-sport

Organisers of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games have confirmed that live coverage of the multi-sport event will be streamed on video-sharing website YouTube.