Ice Hockey
YouTube to show live Ice Hockey World Championship action
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…
CBC cost-cutting measures threaten NHL rights deal
Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC is considering dropping its NHL ice hockey rights as a cost-cutting measure, according to the Hollywood Reporter website
US regional broadcaster renews ice hockey deal with local NHL side
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.
Nelonen and MTV3 to dominate SM Liiga bidding
Two-way battle in Finland
MP & Silva taps into French boom to double values
MP & Silva doubles up in France with league rights
Finnish ice hockey league wants long-term rights deals
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.
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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
Medge and AMI agree NHL deals in Ukraine and Balkans
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…
CBS to show new ice hockey conference
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.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 3: Horse racing, ice hockey, MMA, Olympics, skiing and more
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.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: American football, athletics, hockey, handball and more
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…
The Score brings US college programming to Canada
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
NBC attracts large Winter Classic audience
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
CRTC rules against Bell’s exclusive mobile deals
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…
Fox Sports Ohio renews with Columbus Blue Jackets
US regional sports network Fox Sports Ohio extended its exclusive rights deal with NHL ice hockey side the Columbus Blue Jackets in a multi-year deal
Bell teams up with Rogers to buy Maple Leaf Sports
Canadian telecommunications company Bell, through its parent company BCE, and rival telco Rogers Communications agreed a deal to jointly acquire a controlling stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment,…
MTG renews Baltics IIHF deal
Modern Times Group, the multi-territory commercial and pay-television broadcaster, renewed its rights agreement with the International Ice Hockey Federation for the Baltic countries for a further six years,…