American Football

US regional sports broadcaster Midco Sports Network has extended its multimedia rights partnership with the athletics department of South Dakota State University.

American football league the NFL has brokered a deal for PlayStation Vue, the internet television service owned and operated by consumer electronics firm Sony, to carry its NFL Network cable-television channel and NFL RedZone game-day service.

Telecommunications firm Econet Media has agreed a deal for its Kwesé Sports pay-television startup to become the exclusive linear television broadcaster of content from American football league the NFL in a number of countries across sub-Saharan Africa.

The China Arena Football League has entered into a multi-faceted partnership with sports media, marketing and event management company HUPU ahead of the American football competition’s debut season.

WBAL, a regional affiliate of US media group NBCUniversal, has extended a local rights deal with NFL American football franchise the Baltimore Ravens.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has agreed a four-year broadcast partnership to cover post-season college American football game the Foster Farms Bowl.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN International has agreed a four-season extension to its rights deal with the NFL American football league in Spanish-speaking Latin America.

US networks CBS, Fox and NBC, along with sports broadcaster ESPN, have been dropped from an antitrust lawsuit claiming collusion in the means that rights deals have been established for the NFL American football league.

Social media company Twitter is seeking up to $8m (€7.2m) for advertising packages as part of its live streaming of games from the upcoming season of American football league the NFL, according to the Digiday.com website.

NFL American football team the Kansas City Chiefs has said it will broadcast its preseason games in St. Louis this year after the city lost its franchise to Los Angeles.

The parent company of North American NHL ice hockey franchise the Buffalo Sabres has signed a multi-year extension to its local rights deal with MSG Networks, the pay-television channel owned by Madison Square Garden Company.

US pay-television provider Dish Network has dropped carriage of the National Football League’s NFL Network cable-television channel and NFL Red Zone game-day service.

NFL American football team the Los Angeles Rams has secured a multi-year local rights deal with KCBS-TV/CBS 2, a regional television channel operated by US network CBS.

American football’s NFL has renewed a partnership with YouTube that will allow additional content to be available on the league’s official channel on the video-sharing platform.

Twitter’s “great global reach” helped the social media giant to become the NFL’s international streaming partner, the American football league told TV Sports Markets.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL American football franchise has entered into a multi-year local rights partnership with WOFL-TV/Fox 35, a regional television channel operated by media company 21st Century Fox.