American Football

US pay-television operator DirecTV agreed a five-year deal with the Big Sky college sports conference for its basketball and American football competitions

The broadcast blackout rule, which blocks US sports events from being shown live on television in their local market unless all tickets to attend the event have been sold, could be scrapped under a proposal…

American Football: US networks CBS, Fox and NBC acquired rights for the NFL in nine-year deals, from 2014-15 to 2022-23, worth a combined $3.1bn (€2.4bn) per year.

American Football: The NFL Network, the pay-television broadcaster owned by the NFL, agreed a content deal with Outcast, operators of a petrol station digital TV network with 12,000 screens in stations…

Lagardère Unlimited, the sports marketing division of French conglomerate Lagardère, acquired Gaylord Sports Management, a US-based athlete representation group.

The average US television audience for a regular-season NFL match in 2011-12 fell by 2.1 per cent year on-year to 17.5 million, according to audience measurement company Nielsen Media Research

Esporte Interativo, the Brazilian free-to-air sports broadcaster, acquired rights for the NFL Super Bowl in a two-year deal, covering the 2012 and 2013 matches. The deal was brokered by the IMG agency

The University of Oklahoma is close to a carriage deal with the Fox Sports Oklahoma and Fox Sports Southwest US regional cable and satellite broadcasters which will put the university’s sports network i…

NBC sold out advertising spots for its coverage of this year’s NFL Super Bowl game on February 5 for a record average fee, according to Seth Winter, senior vice-president of sales and marketing at the U…

The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, Canada’s telecommunications watchdog, ruled that Bell must allow rival telco Telus to stream sports content that is currently only available t…

The Green Bay Packers’ last-gasp win against the New York Giants on December 4 attracted the highest US television rating for a regular-season NFL game since 2007, on US network Fox.

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American Football: Indian broadcaster Ten Sports, owned by pay-television operator Zee, acquired the rights to the Elite Football League of India in a multi-year deal

Football: Chinese state broadcaster CCTV acquired the rights to China’s international football teams for three-and-a-half years, from July 23 until the end of 2014, from the Chinese Football Association’s com…

American football: US sports broadcaster ESPN agreed an eight-year extension to its rights deal with the NFL for Monday night matches, worth $15.2bn (€10.95bn).

American Football: NFL team the New York Jets extended its television and marketing partnership in a multi-year deal with regional sports network SportsNet New York (SNY)

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