American Football
Facebook to stream US college American football games
Social media platform Facebook has agreed a deal to stream live coverage of 15 US college American football games during the 2017-18 academic year.
Tencent seals NFL rights deal
Chinese online streaming platform Tencent has signed a three-year digital rights partnership with the NFL American football league.
Big Ten confirms rights deals
The Big Ten Conference has confirmed domestic rights deals with the CBS and Fox networks and sports broadcaster ESPN.
DAZN confirms launch in Canada
DAZN, the OTT service operated by digital sports media company Perform, has confirmed it will launch in Canada “this summer” and will be the exclusive home in the country of the NFL American football league’s Game Pass digital subscription package.
CFL sets Canadian first with Twitter partnership
The Canadian Football League has secured a live-streaming rights deal with the Twitter Canada division of the social network.
ESPN extends BYU rights contract
Bell commits to NFL despite Super Bowl advertising cull
Canadian telco Bell has completed its set of exclusive linear NFL rights after picking up its one missing set of games, on Thursday nights, from rival telco Rogers.