Baseball

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports will launch cable-television and IPTV channels in Taiwan early next month after boosting its rights portfolio by sealing a deal with the Lamigo Monkeys Chinese Professional Baseball League team.

SportsNet New York and rival local broadcaster MSG Network have sealed separate deals to stream live coverage of several of New York’s major league sports franchises.

The NBC Sports Group division of US media company NBCUniversal has agreed a deal with MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media and internet arm of North America’s Major League Baseball, to stream local market MLB games across its regional sports networks.

Major League Baseball has signed a content partnership with Hispanic-focused digital network Mitú which is designed to target the Latino youth market.

Bob Bowman has stepped down from a leadership role at BAMTech, the video technology business of MLB Advanced Media, according to multiple reports.

International sports broadcaster Eleven Sports Network has acquired rights in Taiwan to the 2017 edition of the World Baseball Classic national team tournament.

The Fox Networks Group division of 21st Century Fox has acquired exclusive rights to the World Baseball Softball Confederation-sanctioned Asia Winter Baseball league in Taiwan.

The Chicago Cubs’ decisive victory over the Cleveland Indians in game seven of this year’s World Series attracted the largest audience for Major League Baseball’s end-of-season showpiece since 1991.

The US Department of Justice has said it is suing telco AT&T and its DirecTV satellite operator and broadcaster for acting as the “ringleader” of a series of unlawful information exchanges between DirecTV and three of its competitors during carriage talks for regional pay-television channel SportsNet LA.

International media and entertainment company Discovery Communications has agreed a long-term partnership with BAMTech that will lead to the formation of a European division of the video technology business of MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media arm of Major League Baseball.

The Rushmans consultancy and Pitch International agency have struck a deal to market the global rights to the National Baseball Series, the top domestic competition in Cuba.

Major League Baseball team the Cincinnati Reds has extended its rights agreement with Fox Sports Ohio, and also acquired an equity stake in the regional subsidiary of the Fox Sports network.

The Fox Networks Group division of 21st Century Fox has agreed a rights partnership with North America’s Major League Baseball in Taiwan.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation has unveiled rights deals in the Americas, Asia and Oceania for its 2016 Women’s Baseball World Cup, which gets underway on Saturday in Gijang, South Korea.

US sports broadcaster ESPN will launch a new multi-sport subscription streaming service after its owner, the Walt Disney media company, confirmed an investment in BAMTech, the video technology business of MLB Advanced Media, the interactive media arm of Major League Baseball.

The World Baseball Softball Confederation has awarded rights to its 2016 Youth U-15 Baseball World Cup to broadcasters across Asia.