US College Sport

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 has agreed a a 12-year contract extension for the American Athletic Conference’s global media rights from 2020-21.

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.

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

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.

Sports-streaming service FloSports has agreed a multi-year rights deal with college sports organisation the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

US sports broadcaster ESPN has struck a multi-year extension to its rights deal with college sports organisation the Big South Conference

ESPN+, the US sports broadcaster’s subscription streaming service, has further bolstered its college sports lineup through a new, multi-year agreement with Conference USA.

US college sports organisation the Atlantic 10 Conference has expanded its partnership with ESPN by striking a new multi-year rights deal focusing on the sports broadcaster’s subscription streaming service, ESPN+.

The athletics division of the University of Notre Dame has agreed a wide-ranging partnership with US collegiate marketing agency JMI Sports and holistic solutions provider Legends.

The Ivy League US collegiate sports conference has signed a new long-term partnership with ESPN that will result in a host of events being showcased on the sports broadcaster’s new OTT platform, ESPN+.

US college sports organisation Conference USA has extended its rights partnerships with the CBS Sports division of the CBS network and multi-platform sports network Stadium in agreements that will also bring live games to social media platform Facebook.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has signed a long-term extension to its rights deal with the Sun Belt Conference collegiate sports organisation

US-based multi-platform sports network Stadium has agreed a deal with social media platform Facebook to stream live coverage of US college basketball games.

The IMG agency has secured a 10-year multimedia rights agreement with George Washington University’s athletics department.

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS has acquired rights to a college basketball tournament that will be staged in Belfast, Northern Ireland next month, while it has disclosed further details behind its new online sports streaming service.

US college sports conference the Pac-12 has increased its annual media-rights income in China by about 66 per cent after agreeing a long-term deal with Alisports.

The Big Ten Network, a joint venture between US college sport organisation the Big Ten Conference and the Fox Entertainment Group division of US media company 21st Century Fox, has agreed a distribution partnership with sports streaming specialist FloSports.