American Football

The National Football League has endured mixed fortunes in its early deals in Europe, earning increases in Germany and France but seeing the value of its rights fall in the Netherlands.

The NFL Players’ Association has launched Athlete Content & Entertainment (Ace Media), a company that will identify and create programming opportunities for the American football league’s sportsmen.

International pay-television operator Eleven Sports Network has acquired rights in Poland and Belgium for the North American NFL American football league.

New Zealand public-service broadcaster TVNZ has acquired rights for the North American NFL American football league and expects to announce further coverage deals in the coming weeks, according to director of content Jeff Latch.

Caribbean cable-television broadcaster Flow has acquired broadcast rights in the region for the NFL American football league.

Online streaming website Spox.com, owned by digital sports media company Perform, has acquired rights to the NFL in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, while pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports will broadcast the American football league in the Netherlands.

Fewer NFL American football matches will be shown free-to-air in the UK in the 2015 season, but the league has secured deals which it believes will still reach a wide audience.

American football league the NFL has launched a new subscription streaming service designed as the latest accompaniment to the sport’s traditional television coverage.

The North American NFL American football league has renewed a partnership with digital media service provider RR Media.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has agreed a two-year rights deal with American football league the NFL.

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.