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Formula One closes North American rights cycle with Canadian fee rise
ESPN continues football spending spree with Copa del Rey acquisition
Uefa benefits from US digital battle as club competition values soar
Bundesliga agrees big fee rise in US with ESPN, but takes exposure gamble
BeIN’s embattled US operation pays premium to secure marquee LaLiga rights
Discovery taps into $500m credit facility amid ‘unknown’ Covid-19 impact
Fox Sports to broadcast remainder of Nascar’s new esports series
WWE offering free access to WWE Network for one month
FuboTV to merge with virtual entertainment company FaceBank
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US sports media market will be worth $22.42bn in 2019 according to latest SportBusiness Global Media Report
DC United leverages twin impact of Audi Field and ‘Rooney effect’ into new deals
Hutton: Facebook spending on rights will remain highly targeted
US boxing landscape transformed by new deals, but broadcasters more cautious than advertised
ESPN doubles down on football to bolster ESPN+ offering
DAZN buys Bellator and WBSS rights but retains flexibility
DAZN has agreed two more combat sports deals since its joint venture with Matchroom Boxing, but all three deals contain clauses that would allow the Perform-owned streaming platform to quickly shift its content strategy
Free-to-air Telemundo deal will help with Copa sponsorship sales
Telemundo’s deal for Spanish-language rights to the 2019 Copa América ensures most matches will be shown free-to-air in the US – a key consideration for MP & Silva and Conmebol ahead of sponsorship sales around the tournament
ESPN takes UFC exclusively as Fox opts for WWE rights instead
Doubling up with ESPN will earn the Ultimate Fighting Championship $300m (€258m) per year from media-rights sales from 2019 to 2023 – a good result given the absence of aggressive bidding from incumbent Fox.
Perform/Matchroom plan big spend to enter US boxing ring
The ‘$1bn’ joint venture between the Perform Group and Matchroom Boxing does not guarantee either company that amount in revenue. But the headline number does signal how much the joint venture is willing to spend on attracting top-level fighters
UFC off to good start in US TV negotiations after ESPN deal
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has completed the first of its US non-pay-per-view deals from 2019, selling exclusive rights to a package of 15 events to media group Disney
Tennis Channel wards off digital competitors to secure future
Extending and expanding its deal for ATP World Tour 1000 and 500 rights should secure Tennis Channel’s position against the growing sports-rights ambitions of Amazon
A new day for Fox as it bets big on Thursday Night Football
Fox’s acquisition of broadcast rights to the NFL’s Thursday Night Football package is the first step in the US media group’s rebuilding project after many of its assets were sold to Disney.
OTT stipulations lead F1 from NBC to ESPN in key US market
The desire for flexibility around its yet-to-launch OTT service drove Formula One Management to agree a new deal with sports broadcaster ESPN in the US last month.
Six Nations signs off long-term NBC deal but suffers fall in Italy
The Six Nations last week secured a long-term deal with media company NBCUniversal in the US, but is understood to have suffered a 40-per-cent fall in the value of its rights in Italy.
Big Ten bucks trend by agreeing shorter-term deals than its rivals
The Big Ten collegiate athletic conference has agreed a set of new domestic media-rights deals, increasing the value of the existing package by almost 300 per cent.