American Football

Social media company Twitter has signed a live-streaming partnership with indoor American football competition the Arena Football League.

Turner is assessing a return as a rights-holder of American football league the NFL, according to the US media company’s executive vice-president of property marketing and corporate partnerships, Will Funk.

Perform’s expertise in digital content was key to winning NFL distribution rights in this month’s deal.

American football league the NFL has struck a new global multi-year deal with social media platform Twitter that it says will break new ground in creative live programming and video-on-demand content.

Interview with Simon Denyer, Perform Group chief executive, on the agency’s deal to market NFL rights outside Europe and the US.

Digital sports content and media group Perform has struck a multi-year deal with the NFL to market the American football league’s broadcast rights in over 100 countries and territories across the world.

Sports broadcaster ESPN is still on track to launch the ACC Network college sports channel as scheduled in 2019 despite recent staff cutbacks.

US telco Verizon has acquired rights for the NFL regular-season game between the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium in London.

NFL American football team the Los Angeles Chargers has agreed multi-year rights deals with local broadcasters KABC-TV and KAZA-TV.

The Cleveland Browns NFL American football franchise has entered into a local media-rights agreement with Fox Sports Ohio, a regional sports channel owned by the Fox Cable Networks division of the 21st Century Fox media company.

NFL American football franchises the Green Bay Packers and Jacksonville Jaguars have both secured local media-rights deals.

Digital rights to Thursday Night Football will again be a test bed for the NFL and a new entrant in 2017, after Amazon acquired the package won by Twitter last year.

American football league the NFL has entered into a wide-ranging partnership with technology giant Intel, while it has officially confirmed its Thursday Night Football agreement with e-commerce and media company Amazon.

E-commerce and media company Amazon has acquired live streaming rights to the NFL American football league’s Thursday Night Football franchise, according to multiple reports.

US pay-television broadcaster HBO has extended its partnership with the NFL American football league, through which it will continue to air the Hard Knocks documentary series.

Social media platform Twitter will face competition from at least three major rivals to extend its live streaming rights to the NFL American football league’s Thursday Night Football franchise.