US College Sport
Michigan-Ohio State clash draws record-level viewership
Rivalry generates Fox Sports' biggest regular season college football audience ever
Helbiz Media adds NCAA rights to Italian offering
Helbiz Media, a division of US-based micro-mobility company Helbiz, has acquired rights in Italy to American football and basketball championships organised by the National Collegiate Athletics Association…
BeIN acquires NCAA rights in France in ESPN deal
Subscription broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights in France to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) events through an agreement with US sports broadcaster ESPN
Atlantic 10, NBC Sports extend basketball media-rights deal
The Atlantic 10 collegiate athletic conference, one of the top mid-majors in American college sports, has secured a multiyear domestic media rights extension with NBC Sports for men's and women's basketball
Apple speaks with Pac-12 in exploration of content opportunities
Apple has had talks with US college sports property the Pac-12 Conference as it looks to bolster its Apple TV and TV+ OTT video entertainment products
Dish customers lose Fox sports channels amid carriage dispute
Subscribers to US pay-television provider Dish Network and its OTT subsidiary Sling TV have lost access to Fox’s sports channels amid a carriage dispute with the network.
Stadium to deliver college football games on Facebook
US-based multi-platform sports network Stadium has revealed its college American football schedule for the new season, with 15 games to be available exclusively via social media platform Facebook
YouTube TV secures carriage deal for ACC Network
YouTube TV, the OTT service operated by Google-owned video-sharing website YouTube, has announced it will carry the ESPN-owned ACC Network channel when the latter launches later this month
FREE | US College Data Report, 2019
In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the media-rights landscape of US College sports.
US College Sport Data Report, 2019
In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the media-rights landscape of US College sports.
Big Ten Network shifts streaming content to Fox Sports app
The Big Ten Network (BTN) is shutting down its BTN2Go OTT platform and will move all its network content to the Fox Sports app, including games, studio shows and original programming
NFL Network signs four-year Conference USA partnership
The NFL Network has signed its first partnership with a collegiate athletic conference, by agreeing to a four-year pact with Conference USA (C-USA). Terms of the deal were not announced.
ESPN signs expanded content agreement with Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference has signed an expanded agreement with ESPN, which will gain the rights to all its American football championship games until 2024 and create a Big 12-branded offering on OTT streaming …
NCAA March Madness scores improved ratings on 2018
Monday's NCAA Tournament Championship Game earned a 12.4 overnight rating on free-to-air CBS, up about 20 per cent on last year's final, broadcast on cable channels TBS, TNT and truTV
ESPN, American Athletic Conference agree 12-year rights extension
ESPN has agreed a a 12-year contract extension for the American Athletic Conference’s global media rights from 2020-21.
Texas schools benefit from return of Big 12 championship game
Texas’ two Big 12 college sport programs surpassed $20m (€17.5m) in media-rights revenue for the 2017-18 academic year, with the return of the Big 12 championship game having boosted the accounts.
UConn signs 15-season commercial rights deal with IMG
The University of Connecticut has renewed a commercial rights deal with IMG, granting the agency radio, sponsorship, digital and licensing rights for the next 15 seasons
ESPN to put OVC events on ESPN+ in contract extension
OTT service ESPN+ will add a minimum of 600 Ohio Valley Conference events to its portfolio in an extension of its media-rights contract with the collegiate athletic conference.