American Football

American football league the NFL is seeking to adopt a simulcast strategy for its new package of Thursday night games, according to multiple US media reports.

The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case brought by several US networks against television streaming service Aereo.

American football’s NFL has invited broadcasters to bid for a new package of rights comprising Thursday night games.

NFL American football teams the Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts and Cincinnati Bengals avoided local television blackouts of their weekend play-off games after businesses stepped in to purchase remaining blocks of tickets to ensure stadia were sold out.

US pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports will stream live coverage of the Super Bowl NFL American football championship game on February 2 for free, but will restrict online coverage of the National Football Conference (NFC) post-season to subscribers of selected pay-television operators, according to media news publication Variety.

US network CBS has announced it will live stream its coverage of the NFL’s American Football Conference play-offs through its CBSSports.com website for the first time.

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American football’s NFL “will strongly oppose” a proposal by US regulators to scrap the so-called ‘blackout’ rule that blocks sports events from being shown live on television in their local market if they fail to meet a specified level of ticket sales.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed a multi-year deal, commencing in 2014, for the rights to indoor American football competition the Arena Football League.

US satellite television provider DirecTV and American football league the NFL have agreed on a framework for negotiations to renew the company’s Sunday Ticket package of programming, according to the Reuters news agency.

Bell has extended and expanded a media rights deal for American football’s NFL that will allow the Canadian telecommunications company to show more games than ever before.

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German commercial broadcaster Prosiebensat.1 has extended a rights deal for the NFL American football league’s Super Bowl and post-season playoffs.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Deportes has signed a two-year deal with American football league the NFL under which the Super Bowl will be televised by a US Spanish-language channel for the first time.

North America’s Major League Baseball and NFL American football leagues have threatened to move all their broadcast rights to pay-television if streaming service Aereo is deemed legal, according to a filing by the two organisations.

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