American Football

The NFL American football’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers franchise has announced a rights deal with local broadcaster WFLA-TV/News Channel 8.

French-language Canadian pay-television network TVA Sports has agreed a four-year rights deal, from 2013-14 to 2016-17, with American football’s NFL.

American football’s NFL has agreed a four-year extension, from 2014-15 to 2017-18, to its partnership with telecommunications company Verizon.

The NFL has secured a new partnership with Microsoft worth $400m (€310m) over five years, according to widespread US media reports.

FOOTBALL Football: The CAA Eleven agency agreed two deals in the UK for qualifiers for Uefa Euro 2016 and the 2018 Fifa World Cup

A buy-out deal for ESPN America could be weeks away, with Setanta, Chello and Eurosport all in the frame

Mediaset close to deal for NFL and other rights but Sportitalia needs fresh funds to carry on broadcasting

Rights for Six Nations, Pro12 and autumn internationals on Italian market at the same time

DirecTV Sports and its Root Sports regional sports network has agreed a multi-year rights deal with the Mountain West US college sports conference.

FOOTBALL Football: The MP & Silva agency acquired exclusive media rights in Vietnam for the 2014 Fifa World Cup

The Denver Broncos NFL American football franchise has agreed a media rights deal with local pay-television broadcaster Kusa TV

FOOTBALL Football: Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS acquired exclusive rights for Uefa Euro 2016

The NBC Sports division of US media company NBCUniversal and the University of Notre Dame have agreed a 10-year rights extension, from 2016 to 2025

The NBC Sports division of US media company NBCUniversal has acquired rights for the Bayou Classic American football college game

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS will retain rights to all Naval Academy home American football games even though the US Navy is becoming a member of the Big East college sports conference, which…

US cable-television sports broadcaster ESPN will be able to cancel its new rights deal with the Big East college sports conference if certain teams leave the competition, according to ESPN’s news website.

ESPN is finalising a new rights deal with the Mountain West US college sports conference, according to the US cable-television broadcaster’s news website.

Patrick Doyle, the chief financial officer at DirecTV, has said that the US satellite television provider would consider acquiring non-exclusive rights to the Sunday Ticket package of American football…

ESPN America sell-off attracts Eurosport, Setanta and Liberty