American Football

The New England Patriots will launch a 24-hour video stream on Monday to chronicle the NFL American football franchise’s build-up to the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 4.

Social media company Facebook has decided against bidding for the NFL American football league’s Thursday Night Football package, according to the Bloomberg news agency.

US media companies 21st Century Fox and Walt Disney are pursuing the Thursday Night Football rights package being marketed by American football league the NFL, according to Bloomberg.

US network NBC is predicting advertising revenue of close to $1.4bn (€1.17bn) from next month’s broadcasts of the Super Bowl, the showpiece game of the NFL American football league, and the 2018 winter Olympic Games.

US television audience ratings for American football’s NFL fell 9.7 per cent in the 2017 season, marking the second consecutive year of decline.

The Minnesota Vikings has become the first NFL American football franchise to launch a virtual reality mobile application.

American football league the NFL has issued a request for proposal concerning its Thursday Night Football rights package, with the document reportedly outlining that a contract could be solely sealed by an online streaming provider for the first time.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has added live mobile streaming of Monday Night Football games to its coverage of the NFL American football league.

US media company NBCUniversal has expanded its agreement with the NFL to cover mobile rights for the American football league’s Sunday Night Football games.

US telco Verizon has sealed a multi-year extension to its partnership with the NFL, through which it will remain a rights partner and sponsor of the American football league.

US telecommunications company Verizon is set to seal an extended and amended rights deal with American football league the NFL, according to Bloomberg.

ESPN Plus will be the name of the international sports broadcaster’s new video-streaming service that will launch in spring 2018, Bob Iger, the chief executive of parent company Disney, confirmed yesterday (Thursday).

Canadian entertainment and media company Cineplex has claimed a first through a partnership with the NFL American football league that will result in games being broadcast live in cinemas throughout Canada.

NFL American football franchise the Chicago Bears has extended its deal with local broadcast rights partner Fox32.

On the back of Twitter's purchase of the IPL rights tender and its announcement of several sports streaming deals in Asia-Pacific, Aneesh Madani talks to TV Sports Markets about the social media platform's future strategy regarding sports rights in the region.

The providers of Game Pass Europe, the official live streaming service of American football league the NFL, have unveiled a 20 per cent discount to annual subscription fees as a means of compensation for the issues that have dogged the new-look service.