Ice Hockey

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Sports fans increasingly turn to social networks for content

Athletics

FOOTBALL Football: UK public-service broadcaster the BBC renewed its highlights rights for the English Premier League for three seasons, from 2013-14 to 2015-16, in a deal worth £179.
Ice Hockey

Norwegian basic-tier and pay-television broadcaster TV2 renewed its rights for Norwegian ice hockey’s top-tier domestic league, the Get-League, and national team matches, for three years, from 2012 to 2…
Ice Hockey

The Infront Sports & Media agency has curtailed its live coverage of the 2012 Ice Hockey World Championship on video-sharing website YouTube after users were able to access the streams from territories…
Ice Hockey

YouTube will provide live coverage of the 2012 Ice Hockey World Championship after the Infront Sports & Media agency, the marketing partner of the International Ice Hockey Federation, launched an official…
Ice Hockey

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC is considering dropping its NHL ice hockey rights as a cost-cutting measure, according to the Hollywood Reporter website
Ice Hockey

US regional sports network Fox Sports Carolinas extended its rights deal with NHL ice hockey side Carolina Hurricanes in a multi-year agreement for all matches not shown nationally by the league’s rights-holders.
Basketball

Two-way battle in Finland

Football

MP & Silva doubles up in France with league rights

Ice Hockey

The SM Liiga, Finland’s top-tier ice hockey competition, said that it was interested in signing only long-term domestic rights deals beyond its current contract, which ends next season.
American Football

FOOTBALL Football:Pan-European cable and satellite sports broadcaster Eurosport extended its rights deal for the Africa Cup of Nations for the next two editions of the tournament, in 2013 and 2015
Ice Hockey

The Medge Consulting and Advisers Media International agencies agreed four-and-a-half-year rights deals, from now until the end of the 2015-16 season, for National Hockey League ice hockey in the Ukraine…
Ice Hockey

CBS Sports Network, the cable sports channel of US network CBS, acquired rights for ice hockey’s National Collegiate Hockey Conference in a multi-year deal from the inaugural 2013-14 season onwards.
American Football

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Horse Racing

Horse Racing: Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ agreed a two-year rights deal, for 2012 and 2013, with Horse Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses, for races in Ireland.
American Football

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…
Basketball

The Fox Sports International media company agreed a multi-year deal to provide at least 250 hours of live US college sports programming per year to Canadian cable-television sports channel The Score
Ice Hockey

The NHL Winter Classic game on January 2 between the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers attracted the fifth-largest US television audience for a regular-season ice hockey match since 1975