American Football

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has announced an initial six-month partnership with Facebook that will allow data and chatter from the social media website to appear alongside live NFL and college American football broadcasts, as well as soccer games.

The NFL American football league has agreed a multi-year deal with digital sports video news agency SendtoNews for video distribution rights in Canada.

Media rights clips from 29 August to 11 September
 

Fox buys NFL across Europe but will not launch US sports channel

The NFL explains why the UK is a key growth market

Sporting News Media, part of digital sports media company Perform Group, has announced an online video rights agreement with American football league the NFL.

British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, has agreed a two-year deal with American football league the NFL to broadcast its Monday Night Football programme.

Pay-television sports broadcaster SuperSport, which operates in sub-Saharan Africa, has agreed a rights deal with American football league the NFL.

Mexican media group Televisa and commercial broadcaster TV Azteca have confirmed a three-year extension to their rights deal with American football’s NFL.

The Fox International Channels broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has signed a two-year rights agreement with the NFL International arm of the American football league, with the deal commencing from the forthcoming 2013 season.

UK newspaper the Daily Mail has agreed a deal with American football’s NFL to bring video content from the league to its MailOnline website this season.

German commercial sports broadcaster Sport1 has launched a live streaming service to accompany its new US sports pay-television channel.

Commercial broadcaster Channel 4 has agreed a two-year deal with the NFL to become the exclusive free-to-air television partner of the American football league in the UK.

Media rights clips from 25 July to 30 August 

Interview with Olaf Schroeder, chief editor and programme director of Sport1, on the broadcaster’s recent rights acquisitions and its position in the German market.

Internet company Google has held talks with the National Football League (NFL) American football competition about the possibility of acquiring live rights for its YouTube video-sharing website, according to the AllThingsD.com technology news website.

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS has acquired rights from pay-television broadcaster ESPN for the American Athletic Conference college sports competition.