American Football
Cosm deals with NFL for ‘shared reality’ game rights
Cosm, the immersive technology and entertainment company, has reached an enhanced agreement with the National Football League to show live matches for the rest of the 2024 season.
Fox Deportes, Telemundo to both air Super Bowl LIX
Boosted by growing Spanish-language audiences for the Super Bowl, Fox Deportes and Telemundo have announced that they will both be airing Super Bowl LIX in February 2025
Rams, Genius offer NFL in-game highlights first
The Los Angeles Rams has become the first NFL team to provide fans with data-driven in-game highlights through an agreement with Genius Sports that will provide additional ad inventory for Verizon.
TV2 Denmark returns for ‘different’ NFL deal
TV2 Denmark has agreed a 'multi-year' NFL rights deal just over six months after ending its previous contract one year early to step away from the sport.
ITV’s NFL highlights show discontinued
ITV will no longer show its weekly National Football League highlights programme in the UK this season
Comcast carriage row hits Big Ten entrants
Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington have seen the start of their era as Big Ten Conference schools blacked out to Comcast customers in their home markets, as the latter’s Big Ten Network carriage row rumbled into the start of the new season.
NFL Game Pass added to DAZN’s Prime Video offering
NFL Game Pass will be available on Amazon Prime Video as an add-on in several of the league's key international markets thanks to a deal struck by the service's global distributor, DAZN
Judge overturns $4.7bn Sunday Ticket ruling
A federal judge has overturned the verdict of a class-action lawsuit that ordered the National Football League to pay $4.7bn (€4.3bn) to subscribers of Sunday Ticket, the league’s domestic out-of-market broadcast package.
Goodell: Private equity NFL ownership limited to 10 per cent
The National Football League is set to allow each of its 32 franchises to sell to private equity investors, albeit up to a limit of 10 per cent only, commissioner Roger Goodell has declared
NFL hopes for younger eyeballs in Brazil with CazéTV
The National Football League's decision to take a regular-season game to Brazil for the first time has resulted in a new media deal in the country targeting a younger audience, the streaming platform CazéTV.
TKO buys into EverPass as NFL Sunday Ticket streamed in bars
The National Football League's domestic out-of-market Sunday Ticket package will be able to be streamed in US commercial businesses for the first time, after EverPass Media, the media platform of the NFL…
NFL to appeal $4.8bn Sunday Ticket class action verdict
The National Football League has said it will contest the verdict of a class action lawsuit that has ordered the league to pay $4.8bn (€4.48bn) to subscribers of the league’s domestic out-of-market broadcast package, NFL Sunday Ticket.
Genius Sports brings augmented CFL broadcasts to TSN
Sports data and betting services company Genius Sports is bringing its augmented broadcast technology to the Canadian Football League, airing live streams exclusively on Bell Media's TSN+
Netflix joins NFL streaming party with Christmas Day offering
Netflix has made its first move into live American football and struck its first agreement with a major sports league, today (Wednesday) announcing a three-season deal with the NFL
Pac-12 football signs CW, Fox Sports deals
The Pac-12 Conference, now down to just two teams, has announced a broadcast rights agreement with the CW Network and Fox Sports for its 2024 football season
NFL continues streaming push with two more exclusive games
The National Football League has announced two games in the 2024 season, including the league's debut game in Brazil in September, will be shown exclusively on streaming services, with Peacock and Amazon…
Peacock retains 71 per cent of sign-ups from NFL playoff
NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock has retained 71 per cent of the sign-ups it generated when it streamed the National Football League's AFC Wild Card Game
NFL-Genius betting rights extension reaffirms that cash is king
The current crop of cash-plus-equity betting rights deals agreed by US sports leagues at the start of the decade are likely to be the last of their kind, according to industry experts polled by SportBusiness for its new Betting Rights Report 2024.