American Football

Sam Jones has been appointed chief executive of OverTier, the joint venture between global sports marketing company Bruin Sports Capital and advertising and public relations giant WPP that runs the OTT business of American football league the NFL throughout Europe.

WBZ-TV, a regional affiliate of US network CBS, has extended a local rights deal with the New England Patriots NFL American football franchise.

German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has renewed a rights deal for coverage of the NFL American football league.

The NFL secured a solid increase in the annual value of its digital rights in China from an exclusive deal with online streaming platform Tencent.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has renewed its rights agreement with the NFL American football league.

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.

Chinese online streaming platform Tencent has signed a three-year digital rights partnership with the NFL American football league.

The Big Ten Conference has confirmed domestic rights deals with the CBS and Fox networks and sports broadcaster ESPN.

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.

The Canadian Football League has secured a live-streaming rights deal with the Twitter Canada division of the social network.

Sports broadcaster ESPN has exercised an option to extend a rights deal in the US for Brigham Young University’s American football games.

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.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has secured rights to this year’s Holiday Bowl US college American football game.

American football league the NFL has entered into a partnership with global sports marketing company Bruin Sports Capital and advertising and public relations giant WPP in order to drive expansion of its Game Pass over-the-top service throughout Europe.

The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) and the World Bridge Federation (WBF) have become the latest sports bodies to agree content partnerships with the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Channel.

Canadian telecommunications company Bell Media has expanded its partnership with the NFL to become the exclusive broadcast partner of the American football league in Canada.