American Football

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has acquired rights in France for the NFL American football league in North America.

The Learfield Sports agency has agreed a five-year extension to its exclusive multimedia rights partnership with college sports conference the Patriot League.

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven has bolstered its coverage of the 2015-16 NFL American football league season in the wake of the interest generated by Australian Jarryd Hayne making the final cut for the San Francisco 49ers’ squad.

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS has enhanced its live streaming offering for the NFL, offering regular-season games from the American football league for the first time this season.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has launched a new college sports service that will bring hundreds of exclusive events to its online streaming service ESPN3 to televisions.

Leslie Moonves, the president and chief executive of CBS, has said that the US network would have liked a longer deal than a one-year extension with American football’s NFL for the Thursday Night Football package.

Russian pay-television broadcaster NTV Plus has acquired rights to the 2015-16 season of American football league the NFL.

UK pay-television broadcaster Sky has expanded its coverage of the NFL American football league by agreeing a two-year deal for its Sunday Night Football package.

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven has entered into negotiations with the NFL American football league with a view to providing specific coverage of San Francisco 49ers games during the 2015 season.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has struck an acquisition deal with online sports startup StraightCast Media, while it will today (Friday) launch its coverage of the German Bundesliga football league with a landmark live streaming provision via video-sharing platform YouTube.

US satellite-television provider DirecTV has significantly extended the reach of its Sunday Ticket package of programming for the NFL American football league by making its live streaming service more widely available.

American football league the NFL has signed a new multi-year partnership with social networking service Twitter which will deliver daily uniquely packaged official NFL video and other types of content to fans on a year-round basis.

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has signed a strategic partnership with Telecom Italia (TIM) under which content offered through its pay-television service Mediaset Premium, including Serie A and Uefa Champions League football, will be distributed by the telco.

The Mediaset Premium pay-television service of Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired exclusive rights to the NFL American football league.

US network CBS is planning to become the first broadcaster in the country to live stream all adverts during the 2016 Super Bowl, the championship game of the NFL American football league.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Latin America has bolstered its coverage of the NFL American football league by acquiring rights to the Thursday Night Football package in Mexico and Central America.