American Football

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.

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS has acquired rights for the Mountain West Conference college sports competition’s American football championship game.

Randy Freer, chief operating officer and co-president of the Fox Sports division of US network Fox, has said that the broadcaster would be interested in bidding for Thursday night NFL American football rights.

US regional television broadcaster WBBZ-TV has acquired rights to American football games from college sport’s Atlantic Coast Conference ahead of the 2013 season.

NFL American football franchise the Cleveland Browns have agreed a new multi-year television deal with local cable television partner SportsTime Ohio.

The NBC Sports division of US media group NBCUniversal has announced a partnership with the Dallas Cowboys NFL American football team and the Replay Technologies company to introduce a groundbreaking broadcast initiative for games at the Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium.