Baseball

MP & Silva and Pitch provide the content for Al Jazeera’s expansion into Asia

Cuba has broadcast its first full Major League Baseball game on free-to-air television since 1961, according to the Associated Press news agency.

Canadian multilingual broadcaster OMNI Television will provide an exclusive Mandarin-language broadcast of today’s (Thursday) Toronto Blue Jays game at the Boston Red Sox – the first time an MLB baseball game has been shown in Mandarin in Canada.

The Los Angeles Dodgers will retain more than $6bn (€4.6bn) from their 25-year local rights deal with US broadcaster Time Warner Cable under a “tentative” agreement with the league, a report has claimed.

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Owners of the Los Angles Dodgers MLB team, Guggenheim Baseball Management, are being forced to rework their local rights deal with Time Warner Cable, according to the New York Post.

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

DirecTV Sports Networks, a division of US pay-television provider DirecTV, has agreed a deal to sell a majority stake in its regional sports channel, Root Sports Northwest, to Major League Baseball franchise…

MP & Silva chief explains why channel plan may work for Asia

ESPN Deportes explains long-term strategy for growing US Spanish-language market

Time Warner buys more MLS rights

ESPN America sell-off attracts Eurosport, Setanta and Liberty

The Fox Sports South and SportSouth divisions of US network Fox have become the exclusive regional broadcasters of Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball games after acquiring rights for a further 45 games

The Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball franchise is set to decide against renewing a long-running partnership with local broadcast rights-holder WGN-TV, according to the Chicago Tribune newspaper

Asia-focused sports broadcaster One World Sports has acquired North American rights for games featuring the Yomiuri Giants, Japan’s most popular and successful baseball team.

Eclat, which owns IPTV broadcaster Spo TV, has struck a deal with YouTube that will allow the South Korean sports marketing company to show live sports action via a dedicated page on the video-sharing…

Major League Baseball (MLB) has expressed concerns over the Los Angeles Dodgers’ new local rights deal with US broadcaster Time Warner Cable (TWC), according to the USA Today newspaper.