American Football

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.

Sports broadcaster ESPN has said it remains committed to the Australian market despite losing the rights to the Uefa Champions League European club football competition.

Media rights clips from July 9 to 22

US sports broadcaster ESPN has extended its rights deal with the Southern Conference college sports organisation.

US telecommunications company AT&T’s proposed $48.5bn (€44bn) takeover of satellite television provider DirecTV is set to close after the Federal Communications Commission said it would recommend that the transaction be approved.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against American football’s NFL and pay-television operator DirecTV by antitrust attorney Michael Hausfeld and colleagues at the Hausfeld law company.

Austrian commercial broadcaster Puls 4 has agreed a three-year extension to its rights deal with American football league the NFL.

The NFL American football league is set to receive unprecedented free-to-air coverage in Germany under an agreement with commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1.

The Learfield Sports agency has agreed a 10-year extension to its partnership with the MSU Athletics division of Missouri State University.