Sports broadcasting contracts in the United States
This page refers to sports broadcasting contracts in the United States.
Baseball
Major League Baseball
National Television
- Fox:[1] 12 Saturday afternoon games; All-Star Game; one League Championship Series (shared with FS1); World Series
- FS1: 40 Saturday afternoon games; two Division Series; one League Championship Series that TBS does not air.
- Turner Sports: Sunday afternoon games carried by TBS for the last thirteen weeks of the season. Postseason coverage consists of one Wild Card Game; two Division Series; one League Championship Series that Fox Sports does not air. For postseason only, TNT serves as an overflow station.[2]
- ESPN: Opening Day, Sunday night, Monday night, and Wednesday night games plus occasional broadcasts during the week. All-Star festivities including the annual Home Run Derby. Airs any end of season tiebreaking games and one Wild Card Game.[3]
- MLB Network: 46 Thursday night and 26 Saturday night games and two Division Series games. Also carries local broadcast feeds of teams across the nation.
Local Television
- Additionally, local or regional broadcasters contract with the MLB team in their area for the right to broadcast a number of regular season games locally. These broadcasters include both over-the-air television stations as well as regional cable sports channels. (This includes WGN-TV in Chicago, which until 2015 also aired its games on the WGN America national feed.) Games broadcast locally or regionally are available nationwide (except those affected by local blackout restrictions) on the pay-per-view MLB Extra Innings package.
National Radio
- ESPN Radio: a Saturday game of the week, Sunday night, opening day and holiday games, plus the All-Star Game and the entire postseason.
Local Radio
- MLB teams also contract with local broadcasters to air games on radio. Several teams have multiple affiliates covering those games. The flagship stations can air all games of the teams they contract with, other affiliates must allow ESPN radio coverage to air during the postseason.
World Baseball Classic
MLB Network had English-language rights to the 2017 edition of the World Baseball Classic. In addition to the 39 tournament matches, MLBN televised the four final qualifiers.[4]
ESPN Radio had English-language audio rights to the 2017 edition.
ESPN Deportes held Spanish-language TV and audio rights to the 2017 WBC edition.
Caribbean Series
ESPN Deportes has Spanish-language TV and radio rights to the Caribbean Series.
College Baseball
Post-season ESPN currently broadcasts the College World Series on its family of networks.
Regular-season Nationally televised regular-season games are contracted through each conference and appear on beIN Sports, CBS Sports Network, ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU, FS1, Fox Sports regional networks, Fox College Sports, including several school- and conference-specific networks (BTN, SEC Network, BYUtv, Pac-12 Network, and Longhorn Network).
Little League Baseball
ESPN has rights to broadcast the entire Little League World Series, as well as the finals of the eight regional tournaments that determine the U.S. representatives in that competition. It distributes coverage among its family of networks and ABC; the final is aired on ABC.
Softball
Minor League Baseball
MLB Network has a contract with MiLB to air one game each week.[5]
Nippon Professional Baseball
- Yomiuri Giants: Eleven Sports
- Other limited coverage is part of the weekend schedule of TV Japan
Basketball
National Basketball Association
National television
- ABC: Seventeen regular-season games (Christmas Day double or triple header, and late-season games on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons); some first- and second-round playoff games (mostly on weekend afternoons); NBA Finals through 2025
- ESPN: Eighty-seven regular-season games (mostly on Wednesday and Friday night doubleheaders; occasional Sunday, Monday and Tuesday night games); up to thirty playoff games in the first two rounds, with exclusive coverage presentations of conference semifinals games and one full conference finals series per year through 2025
- TNT: Sixty-seven regular-season games (mostly on Thursday night doubleheaders); All-Star Weekend; up to forty-five playoff games during the first two rounds and will have exclusive coverage of the conference semifinals games it telecasts and one of the conference finals each year through 2025
- NBA TV: One-hundred six regular-season games on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Saturday night and up to nine postseason games through 2025
Local television
Additionally, local or regional broadcasters contract with the NBA team in their area for the right to broadcast a number of regular-season games locally. These broadcasters can be traditional over-the-air television stations as well as regional cable sports channels. WGN, then a Chicago-based superstation, broadcast a limited number of Chicago Bulls regular season games on their national feed until 2014, fewer than they provided locally. If ESPN chooses to opt out of airing all of the games on their night, NBA TV airs a game in its place. Games in the first round of the playoffs can be aired by regional broadcasters, unless the national broadcaster has exclusive rights. Games in the first round not selected by national broadcasters are usually broadcast by NBA TV.
National radio
- ESPN Radio: usually one game from the Sunday afternoon package, one game on Thursday night, and postseason coverage including all games in the Conference Finals and the NBA Finals
Local radio
NBA teams also contract with local radio broadcasters to air their games. Teams may also have affiliates air their games.
Women's National Basketball Association
- ESPN: select weeknight games, All Star Game, playoffs and WNBA Finals. Provisional coverage on ABC through 2025; additional games on NBATV.
College basketball
Postseason
- NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament: CBS/Turner
- Every game in the NCAA Tournament is telecast live nationally on either CBS or one of three Turner networks—TBS, TNT, or truTV. Coverage is split as follows:
- The First Four (the expanded "play-in" round) airs on truTV.
- In the first and second rounds, all four networks air games. CBS airs one "featured" game in each time slot, with the three Turner networks carrying other games.
- The Sweet Sixteen (regional semifinals) are on CBS and TBS
- For 2014 and 2015, two Elite Eight (regional finals) will air on CBS TBS will broadcast the national semifinials, and CBS the title game. Beginning in 2016, TBS will air all three Final Four games in even-numbered years and CBS in odd-numbered years through 2032.
- All games are also streamed via the NCAA/CBS March Madness On Demand service. The new contract will allow Turner to develop its own streaming service for the tournament, alongside MMOD.
- Every game in the NCAA Tournament is telecast live nationally on either CBS or one of three Turner networks—TBS, TNT, or truTV. Coverage is split as follows:
- NIT post-season & Pre-season: ESPN networks with internet streaming on ESPN3.
- NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament: ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU with internet streaming of all games on ESPN3.
- NAIA Men's Basketball Championships: ESPN3
Regular season
- Nationally televised regular-season games are contracted through each conference and appear on beIN Sports, CBS, CBS Sports Network, ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, FSN, Fox College Sports, NBCSN, and others, including several school- and conference-specific networks (Big Ten Network, SEC Network, BYUtv, the Pac-12 Network, and the Longhorn Network).
- National broadcasts on the radio are provided by Compass Media Networks including the Big Ten Tournament and Westwood One including 17 conference tournament championship games, the NCAA Tournament, NCAA Division 2 men's basketball Championship, and NIT Semifinals and Championship. ESPN Radio provides national coverage of the Big 12 Championship game.
FIBA
- FIBA Basketball World Cup: ESPN
- FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification: ESPN
- FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup (men and women): ESPN
- EuroBasket (men and women): ESPN
- FIBA AmeriCup and FIBA Women's AmeriCup: ESPN
- AfroBasket (men and women): ESPN
Other Leagues
Cricket
- Cricket World Cup: Willow
- ICC World Twenty20: Willow
- Under-19 Cricket World Cup: Willow
- Regional Super50: ESPN3
- Big Bash League: NBCSN, Willow
- Bangladesh Premier League: Willow
- Caribbean Premier League: Willow
- Pakistan Super League: Willow
- Indian Premier League: Willow, Hotstar
- NatWest t20 Blast:
- Royal London One-Day Cup:
- Women's Cricket Super League:
- Cricket All-Stars:
- Australia national cricket team: Willow
- Bangladesh national cricket team: Willow
- England national cricket team:
- India national cricket team: Willow
- Ireland national cricket team: ESPN+
- New Zealand national cricket team: ESPN3
- Pakistan national cricket team: Willow
- South Africa national cricket team: Willow
- Sri Lanka national cricket team: Willow
- West Indies national cricket team: Willow
- Zimbabwe national cricket team: Willow
Curling
More than 300 hours of live curling, broadcast by TSN in Canada, will be live-streamed on ESPN3, including:
Cycling
- Tour de France: NBCSN (NBC shows a weekly one-hour recap)[6]
- Giro d'Italia: FuboTV
- Vuelta a España: NBCSN
- Tirreno–Adriatico: FuboTV
- Milan–San Remo: FuboTV
- Tour of Flanders: FuboTV
- Gent–Wevelgem: FuboTV
- Strade Bianche: FuboTV
- Tour de Suisse: NBCSN
- Volta a Catalunya: FuboTV
- UCI World Tour Championships: NBCSN [6]
- Tour of Britain: FuboTV
- Tour of California: NBCSN [6]
- USA Pro Cycling Challenge: NBCSN and NBC [6]
- Liège–Bastogne–Liège: NBCSN [6]
- Tour of Utah: Fox Sports 1 [7]
eSports
Football
National Football League
CBS has rights through the 2022 season to the following:[8][9]
- AFC Sunday Afternoon package, see more
- One Thanksgiving game
- One Wild Card game
- One/Two Divisional playoff game
- AFC Championship
- Super Bowls LIII (2019), and LVI (2022)
ESPN has rights through the 2021 season to the following:[10][11]
- Monday Night Football
- One Wild Card game (simulcast on ABC) [12]
- Pro Bowl (simulcast on ABC)
Fox has rights through the 2022 season to the following:[9][13]
- NFC Sunday Afternoon package, see more
- One Thanksgiving game
- One Wild Card game
- One/Two Divisional playoff game
- NFC Championship
- Super Bowls LIV (2020), and LVII (2023)
NBC has rights through the 2022 season to the following:[9][14]
- Sunday Night Football
- NFL Kickoff Game
- One Thanksgiving game
- One Wild Card game
- One Divisional playoff game
- Super Bowls LV (2021)
Fox has rights through 2022 season to:
- 11 games under the Thursday Night Football banner, with all games to air simultaneously on NFL Network.
NFL Network televises 16 games under the Thursday Night Football banner during the regular season (14 on Thursday, two late season games on Saturday). [15]
DirecTV, through NFL Sunday Ticket, has pay-per-view rights to all regular season Sunday afternoon games through 2021.
Yahoo! will televise one NFL London game on streaming devices. The game will also be simulcast on broadcast networks in the local markets of the teams playing in the game.[16][17]
Westwood One has exclusive national radio rights through the 2017 season.[18][19]
Sports USA has national radio rights to regular season Sunday afternoon doubleheaders sublicensed from Dial Global.
Compass Media Networks has national radio rights to regular season Sunday afternoon games for 10 teams sublicensed from Dial Global.
Each NFL team has local television stations with rights to preseason games and radio stations with rights to all games.
Sirius XM has exclusive satellite radio rights to home, away, and, if available, national broadcast radio feeds of all games. Also has rights to online streaming of games for its subscribers starting with the 2011 season.
College football
Regular-season
- Army and Navy home games and the Army–Navy Game: CBS and CBS Sports Network
- Atlantic Coast Conference: ABC, ESPN networks, Raycom Sports (ACC Network)
- American Athletic Conference: ESPN networks, CBS Sports Network
- AAC Championship Game: ESPN
- BYU home games: ABC, BYUtv, ESPN networks
- Big Ten Conference: Fox Sports, ABC, ESPN networks, Big Ten Network
- Big 12 Conference: ABC, ESPN networks (at least one Longhorns home game exclusively on Longhorn Network), Fox Sports
- Big 12 Championship Game: ABC (in even years) and Fox (in odd years)
- Conference USA: CBS Sports Network, ESPN3, Stadium, Facebook Watch[20]
- Conference USA Football Championship Game: CBS Sports Network
- Mountain West Conference: ESPN networks, CBS Sports Network
- MWC Championship Game: ESPN
- Notre Dame and Bayou Classic: NBC[21]
- Pac-12 Conference: ABC, ESPN networks, Fox Sports, Pac-12 Networks
- Pac-12 Football Championship Game: Fox (in even years) and ESPN (in odd years)
- SEC: CBS, ESPN networks, SEC Network
- Sun Belt Conference: ESPN networks
- Mid-American Conference: ESPN networks
- Ivy League: ESPNU, ESPN+
Post-season
- All bowl games, including the College Football Playoff bowls (Rose Bowl Game, Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Peach Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and CFP National Championship), air on ESPN networks unless otherwise noted.
- ABC: Celebration Bowl (2016), Las Vegas Bowl (2013–present), Citrus Bowl (1987–2010, 2013–present), Outback Bowl (2017), Pinstripe Bowl (2015)
- CBS: Sun Bowl (1968–present)
- CBS Sports Network: Arizona Bowl (2017–present), Cure Bowl (2015–present)
- Fox: Foster Farms Bowl (2016–present), Holiday Bowl (2017)
- NCAA Division I Football Championship: ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU (television), WestwoodOne (radio)
- NCAA Division II National Football Championship game: ESPN2
- NCAA Division III National Football Championship game: ESPNU
Radio
- ESPN Radio: Army Black Knights football and Navy Midshipmen football (national rights)
- IMG College: Notre Dame Fighting Irish football (national rights), regional rights to numerous other teams as well as Big East and Southeastern Conference games of the week
- JMI Sports: regional rights to University of Kentucky sports, including football, from 2015–2030[22]
- Learfield Sports: regional rights to numerous teams
- Nevada Sports Network: 3 bowl games a year
- Sports USA Radio Network, WestwoodOne Sports, Compass Media Networks, ESPN Radio, and Touchdown Radio Productions/United Stations Radio Networks: national games
Arena football
Other professional leagues
- Canadian Football League: At least 17 regular season games and the Eastern and Western Finals are televised on ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNEWS; the Grey Cup airs on ESPN2. ESPN+ airs all games. (2014–2018)[23]
- Champions Indoor Football: Pluto TV holds streaming rights.
Golf
Men
- Masters Tournament – ESPN/CBS
- U.S. Open – Fox Sports 1/Fox[24]
- British Open – Golf Channel/NBC[25]
- PGA Championship – TNT/CBS
- Ryder Cup – Golf Channel/NBC
- The Players Championship – Golf Channel/NBC [26]
- The Presidents Cup – Golf Channel/NBC [26]
- FedEx Cup tour events (regular season and playoffs) – CBS/NBC/Golf Channel [26]
- Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship – ESPN
- Latin America Amateur Championship – ESPN
- OneAsia Tour – Eleven Sports
Women
- ANA Inspiration: Golf Channel [26]
- Women's PGA Championship: Golf Channel/NBC [26]
- U.S. Women's Open: Fox Sports 1/Fox
- Women's British Open: Golf Channel/NBC
- The Evian Championship: Golf Channel/NBC
- Solheim Cup: Golf Channel/NBC
- Other LPGA events: Golf Channel
Hockey
National Hockey League
- NBCSN: One to three regular-season games/week, All-Star Game, playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals (games 2, 3), through 2021.[27] NBC's playoffs and Stanley Cup Finals' coverage can be blacked out if a local channel is carrying coverage of the same games.
- NBC: Black Friday game, New Year's Day game, Sunday afternoon late-season games, weekend afternoon and Saturday night playoff games, and Stanley Cup Finals (games 1, 4–7), through 2021).[27]
- NHL Network: Wednesday, Friday and occasional Sunday games. Simulcasts of CBC/Sportsnet's Hockey Night in Canada (Saturday nights); the simulcast can be blacked out if a local channel is carrying coverage of the same game.
- CNBC and USA: Stanley Cup Playoffs overflows
Additionally, viewers near the Canada–US border, especially in the Seattle, Detroit and Buffalo markets, can view CBC broadcasts of Hockey Night in Canada, playoffs and Stanley Cup Finals. CBC reaches most cable subscribers in Michigan, the Buffalo area, and much of the Seattle TV market. CBC broadcasts of NHL playoff games often get better ratings in those markets than the simultaneous American broadcast when both are available.
Local or regional broadcasters contract with the NHL team in their area for the right to broadcast a number of regular season games locally. These broadcasters can be traditional over-the-air television stations as well as regional cable sports channels. While the Chicago Blackhawks broadcast some games on WGN-TV, these games were not available for the WGN America feed due to league broadcast regulations but they are shown on WGN in Canada (same feed as WGN-TV).
Teams also have contracts with local radio broadcasters to air their games.
Radio
Westwood One through its NBC Sports Radio division (Stanley Cup Finals); games also simulcast on Sirius XM satellite radio.
World Cup of Hockey
ESPN has been awarded the exclusive U.S. media rights to the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. The deal covers all tournament games – round-robin, semi-final and the best-of-three final – for the 2016 tournament and includes exclusive rights on television and radio, with most games to appear on ESPN and ESPN2.
National Women's Hockey League
NWHL announced a landmark television deal with NESN and an internet partnership with ESPN to stream some matches on ESPN3. Agreement with the league includes ten regular season games and playoffs on ESPN3 and eight Boston games on NESN.
Southern Professional Hockey League
- America One: Regular season, playoffs and Championships through 2014
College Ice Hockey
- NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship: ESPNU (regional semifinals and finals), ESPN2 (national semifinals), ESPN (national championship), Turner (internet streaming of all games) and Westwood One (radio)
- Regular season games air locally, with a few being simulcast on NHL Network. Additionally, CBS Sports Network, ESPNU, Big Ten Network (games involving conference members only), and Fox College Sports as well as NBCSN (Hockey East Conference)[28] will air games nationally.
Other Ice Hockey Leagues
- Ice Hockey World Championships: NHL Network and ESPN+
- World Junior Ice Hockey Championships: NHL Network
- MasterCard Memorial Cup: NHL Network
- American Hockey League: select games on NHL Network, select regional coverage by local broadcasters, All-Star Game and Skills Competition on regional sports networks
- Kontinental Hockey League: Eleven Sports
- Swedish Hockey League: Eleven Sports[29]
Horse Racing
Triple Crown
- NBC has the rights of:
- Kentucky Derby through 2025.[30]
- Preakness Stakes through 2022.[31]
- Belmont Stakes through 2020.[32]
- NBCSN provides supplementary coverage of all three Triple Crown races, including previews and associated undercard races on Fridays preceding the Saturday Triple Crown Races:
Breeders' Cup
- NBC and NBCSN have the Breeders' Cup World Championships rights, with most races airing on NBCSN and the Breeders' Cup Classic airing in primetime on NBC.[30]
Road to the Kentucky Derby
- NBC and NBCSN have the rights to all "Road to the Kentucky Derby" races, including the Florida Derby, Santa Anita Derby and Blue Grass Stakes races from March - April.[30]
Lacrosse
Major League Lacrosse
- ESPN+ and Lax Sports Network
National Lacrosse League
College Lacrosse
Varsity lacrosse
- NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship: First round and Quarterfinal matches on ESPNU, Semifinals on ESPN2, Final on ESPN. Effective with the 2011 tournament, internet streaming on Turner (possibly through its administration of the official NCAA website).
- CBS Sports Network: NCAA Division II and III Men's Finals and NCAA Division I, II and III Women's Finals. Streaming on Turner (again, possibly through NCAA.com).
- Nationally televised regular-season games appear on CBS Sports Network, Fox College Sports and ESPNU.
Club Lacrosse
- MCLA: Semifinals and Championship of both division 1 and 2 broadcast nationally on Fox College Sports, usually the Pacific affiliate. Championships also simulcast on the MCLA website.
- BYUtv Sports: At least one home MCLA game featuring BYU, but BYUtv Sports has rights to all home games.
International Lacrosse
Motor sports
NASCAR
Fox Sports and NBC Sports have contracts for all NASCAR events through at least 2024.
- Monster Energy Cup Series
- Fox Sports airs the first 16 races.
- Fox airs ten races, including the Daytona 500, plus the Advance Auto Parts Clash until 2016.
- Fox Sports 1 airs six races, plus the Advance Auto Parts Clash beginning in 2017, Can-Am Duel, and Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race.
- Fox Deportes airs multiple races in Spanish.
- NBC Sports airs the final 20 races.
- NBC airs seven races, including the Coke Zero 400 and the season ending race.
- NBCSN airs thirteen races. Some races may air on CNBC or USA if there's another sports conflict.
- Telemundo Deportes airs multiple races in Spanish on Universo.
- Fox Sports airs the first 16 races.
- Xfinity Series
- Fox Sports airs the first 14 races.
- Fox airs four races; Fox Sports 1 (Fox Sports 2 if there's a sports conflict) airs ten races.
- NBC Sports airs the final 19 races.
- NBC airs four races; NBCSN (CNBC or USA if there's a sports conflict) airs fifteen races.
- Fox Sports airs the first 14 races.
- Camping World Truck Series
- Fox Sports 1 (or if there is a sports conflict, Fox Sports 2 or Fox Business Network) airs all races excluding the race at Talladega (and, at least in 2018, the race at Bristol), which airs on Fox.
- Other series
- NBC Sports has exclusive rights to all remaining NASCAR series. NBCSN (and possibly CNBC) will air 39 races from the K&N Pro Series East, K&N Pro Series West, Whelen Modified Tour, and Whelen Southern Modified Tour in 2015. Universo will air select Toyota Series races in 2015 as well.
IndyCar
- Verizon IndyCar Series
- NBC Sports (NBCSN and Telemundo Deportes) and ESPN (ABC) have contracts through 2018 in English and Spanish. Coverage is as follows:
- ABC airs the Indianapolis 500, 4 other races, and time trials for the Indianapolis 500.
- NBCSN or (rarely, in the event of schedule conflicts) CNBC air the remaining races.
- NBC Sports (NBCSN and Telemundo Deportes) and ESPN (ABC) have contracts through 2018 in English and Spanish. Coverage is as follows:
- Indy Lights
- NBC Sports (NBCSN and NBC Deportes)
- Pro Mazda Championship
- NBC Sports (NBCSN and NBC Deportes)
- U.S. F2000 National Championship
- NBC Sports (NBCSN and NBC Deportes)
Formula One
ESPN aired Formula One from 1984 to 1997. Speedvision and Fox Sports Net shared broadcasting rights from 1998 to 2000. Speedvision and its successor Speed Channel continued to broadcast the championship until 2012. Fox aired select races from 2007 to 2012. NBC Sports had English-language TV broadcasting rights from 2013 through 2017. Races were televised by NBC, NBCSN or CNBC and streamed on NBC Sports Live Extra.[33][34]
ESPN became the new broadcaster in 2018. The network unveiled plans to show over 100 hours of F1 programming during their first season returning to the sport. This included plans to show every practice and qualifying session in some capacity. Race broadcasts would be spread across ESPN and ESPN2 with plans to show live coverage of the American and Mexican Grand Prix live on ABC while also showing the Monaco Grand Prix on tape-delay following the broadcast of the Indianapolis 500. [35]
Univision Deportes Network has Spanish-language rights.
Other
- FIA Formula 2: ESPN3
- GP3 Series: ESPN+
- Porsche Supercup: ESPN+
- World Rally Championship: Eleven Sports, motorsports.tv
- United SportsCar Championship: Fox Sports
- Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge: Fox Sports
- 24 Hours of Le Mans: Velocity
- International Hot Rod Association:
- National Hot Rod Association: Fox Sports
- MotoGP: beIN Sports
- AMA Supercross Championship: Fox Sports
- Arenacross: Fox Sports
- AMA EnduroCross Championship: MAVTV
- Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series: MAVTV/CBS Sports
- Dakar Rally: NBCSN
- ARCA Racing Series: Fox Sports/MavTV
- World Touring Car Championship: Eleven Sports
- Supercars Championship: CBS Sports Network
- Formula E: Fox Sports
- Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters: CBS Sports Network
- Formula Drift: CBS Sports Network
- FIA World Endurance Championship: Velocity
- Superbike World Championship: beIN Sports
- FIA World Rally Cross Championship (WRX): beIN Sports
- VLN: motorsport.tv
- Blancpain GT: CBS Sports Network
- TCR UK: motorsports.tv
Multi-discipline events
- Olympic Games: NBCUniversal (NBC, NBCSN, USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, Golf Channel, Telemundo, Universo) has rights to the Summer and Winter Olympic Games through 2032.[36]
- Pan American Games: ESPN and ESPN Deportes
- Central American and Caribbean Games: ESPN Deportes and ESPN3
- Commonwealth Games: ESPN3
- Special Olympics World Games: ESPN
- Invictus Games: ESPN3
Rugby
Rugby league
- National Rugby League: Fox Sports 2 and Fox Soccer Plus televise 4 matches from each round, two on each channel. All matches are available from Fox Soccer 2Go.[37]
- State of Origin: Fox Sports 2 televises all three games of the series.[37]
- European Super League and Challenge Cup: Fox Soccer Plus airs all televised SL matches, select matches from the Rugby League Championship and all televised Challenge Cup ties, including the final. The Super League Grand Final airs on Fox Sports 2.
Rugby union
- The Rugby Championship: ESPN+
- Americas Rugby Championship: ESPN3 and FloSports
- Super Rugby: ESPN+
- European Rugby Champions Cup: NBC Sports
- European Rugby Challenge Cup: NBC Sports
- Pro14: ESPN and ESPN+
- Currie Cup: ESPN+
- Mitre 10 Cup: ESPN+
- Major League Rugby: ESPN+ and CBS Sports Network
- National Rugby Championship: N/A
- Anglo-Welsh Cup: FloSports
- Test matches: ESPN+
NBC Sports has rights to all World Rugby international events through 2023, including:[38]
- 2017 and 2021 editions of the Women's Rugby World Cup
- 2018 and 2022 editions of the Rugby World Cup Sevens
- 2019 and 2023 editions of Rugby World Cup
- the annual World Rugby Under 20 Championship
NBC Sports also has the rights to:
Rugby sevens
Soccer
International competitions
Event | Country | Broadcaster | Broadcast Details |
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FIFA World Cup finals | Fox, FS1 | English-language rights for 2022 and 2026 | |
Telemundo, Universo, Telemundo Deportes | Spanish-language rights for 2022 and 2026 | ||
FIFA Women's World Cup finals | Fox, FS1, FS2 | English-language rights for 2019 and 2023 | |
Telemundo, Universo, Telemundo Deportes | Spanish-language rights for 2019 and 2023 | ||
FIFA World Cup Qualifiers | ESPN | English-language rights; UEFA European qualification matches for the 2022 FIFA World Cup | AFC World Cup qualification | |
Univision | Spanish-language rights; UEFA European qualification matches for the 2022 FIFA World Cup | ||
beIN Sports | English and Spanish-language rights; CONMEBOL qualification matches for the FIFA World Cup | English-language rights to CONCACAF, except USA, Canada and Mexico home matches | CAF World Cup qualifiers | ||
UEFA European Championship | ESPN | English-language rights to Euro 2020 qualifying and finals | |
Univision | Spanish-language rights to Euro 2020 qualifying and finals | ||
UEFA Nations League | ESPN/ESPN+ | English-language rights | |
Univision | Spanish-language rights | ||
UEFA Champions League | TNT | English-language rights through 2021; 46 live matches per season | |
B/R Live | English-language rights through 2021; all matches broadcast live | ||
Univision | Spanish-language rights through 2021; 97 matches shown on TV | ||
UEFA Europa League | TNT | English-language rights through 2021; live coverage of the final only | |
B/R Live | English-language rights through 2021; all matches broadcast live | ||
Univision | Spanish-language rights through 2021; 70 live matches across Univision Deportes, UniMás and Galavisión | ||
UEFA Super Cup | TNT | English-language rights through 2021 | |
Univision | Spanish-language rights through 2021 | ||
Copa América | Telemundo Deportes | ||
Copa Libertadores | Fox Soccer Plus | English-language rights | |
Fox Deportes | Spanish-language rights | ||
Copa Sudamericana | Fox Deportes | ||
Recopa Sudamericana | Fox Deportes | ||
CONCACAF Gold Cup | Fox, FS1, FS2 | English-language rights; Deal runs through 2022 | |
Univision | Spanish-language rights; Deal runs through 2022; Coverage on Univision or Univision Deportes Network | ||
CONCACAF Nations League | Univision | Spanish-language rights; Deal runs through 2022; Coverage on Univision or Univision Deportes Network | |
CONCACAF Champions League | Univision | Spanish-language rights; Deal runs through 2022; Coverage on Univision or Univision Deportes Network | |
CONCACAF League | Univision | Spanish-language rights; Deal runs through 2022; Coverage airs on both Univision and Univision Deportes Network | |
AFC Asian Cup | Eleven Sports | ||
AFC Champions League | Eleven Sports | ||
Africa Cup of Nations | beIN Sports | English and Spanish-language rights | |
CAF Champions League | beIN Sports | English and Spanish-language rights | |
CAF Confederation Cup | beIN Sports | English and Spanish-language rights | |
CAF Super Cup | beIN Sports | English and Spanish-language rights |
- Other
- FIFA Futsal World Cup: Fox Sports (English), Telemundo (Spanish)
- FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup: Fox Sports (English), Telemundo (Spanish)
- FIFA Club World Cup: Fox Sports (English), Telemundo (Spanish)
- FIFA U-20 World Cup: Fox Sports (English), Telemundo (Spanish)
- FIFA U-17 World Cup: Fox Sports (English), Telemundo (Spanish)
- FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup: Fox Sports (English), Telemundo (Spanish)
- FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup: Fox Sports (English), Telemundo (Spanish)
- UEFA European Under-21 Championship: ESPN (English), Univision (Spanish)
- UEFA European Under-19 Championship: ESPN (English), Univision (Spanish)
- UEFA European Under-17 Championship: ESPN (English), Univision (Spanish)
- UEFA Women's Championship: ESPN (English), Univision (Spanish)
- UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship: ESPN (English), Univision (Spanish)
- UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship: ESPN (English), Univision (Spanish)
USA competitions
Event | Country | Broadcaster | Broadcast Details |
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Major League Soccer | ESPN, ESPN2 | At least 34 matches per season, on either ESPN or ESPN2, plus select MLS Cup playoff matches. MLS Cup in odd-numbered years and MLS All-Star Game in even-numbered years | |
Fox Sports | At least 34 matches per season, on either Fox or Fox Sports 1, plus select MLS Cup playoff matches. MLS Cup in even-numbered years and MLS All-Star Game in odd-numbered years | ||
Univision | At least 34 matches per season, on either Univision, UniMás or Univision Deportes Network, two MLS Cup playoff matches and Spanish-language rights to the MLS Cup and MLS All-Star game | ||
United Soccer League | ESPN+ and ESPN3 | ||
National Women's Soccer League | Lifetime and ESPNEWS | Six NWSL Games of the Week on ESPNEWS, with all games not nationally televised streamed on the NWSL website (English). | |
College Cup | ESPNU |
USA Men's National Team
ESPN and Fox Sports will split the English language rights for U.S. Soccer broadcasts from 2015 to 2022 with games to be split evenly between ESPN and Fox Sports 1. Univision has the Spanish language rights to all U.S. Soccer broadcasts from 2015 to 2022 with all games airing on Univision Deportes.[39]
National competitions
Event | Country | Broadcaster | Broadcast Details |
---|---|---|---|
Premier League | NBC Sports Group | Coverage airs on NBC, NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold and occasionally CNBC in English and on Telemundo and Universo in Spanish. Rights run through the 2021-22 season. | |
English Football League | ESPN+ | ||
FA Cup / FA Community Shield | ESPN+ | ||
EFL Cup | ESPN+ | ||
ESPN/ESPN Deportes | Live coverage of the semifinals and final only | ||
La Liga | beIN Sports | English and Spanish-language rights for 2018 and 2021 | |
Copa del Rey | beIN Sports | English and Spanish-language rights for 2018 and 2021 | |
Copa del Rey Final / Supercopa de España | ESPN | English-language | |
ESPN Deportes | Spanish-language | ||
Serie A | ESPN, ESPN+ and ESPN Deportes | English and Spanish-language rights for 2018 and 2021 | |
Rai Italia | Italian language rights | ||
Coppa Italia | ESPN+ | English rights | |
Coppa Italia Final / Supercoppa Italiana | ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNews | English-language | |
ESPN Deportes | Spanish-language | ||
Bundesliga | Fox, FS1, FS2, FSP | English-language | |
Fox Deportes, UniMás, UDN | Spanish-language | ||
DFB-Pokal | ESPN3 and ESPN Deportes | English and Spanish-language rights | |
DFL-Supercup | FSP and Fox Deportes | English and Spanish-language rights | |
Ligue 1 | beIN Sports | English and Spanish-language rights for 2018 and 2021 | |
TV5Monde | French language rights for 2018 and 2021 | ||
Coupe de France | beIN Sports | English and Spanish-language rights | |
TV5Monde | French language rights | ||
Coupe de la Ligue | beIN Sports | English and Spanish-language rights for 2018 and 2021 | |
TV5Monde | French language rights | ||
Trophée des Champions | beIN Sports | English and Spanish-language rights for 2018 and 2021 | |
TV5Monde | French language rights | ||
Liga MX | FS1, FS2 | English-language | |
ESPN Deportes, Fox Deportes, Univision | Spanish-language | ||
Copa MX | ESPN Deportes, Fox Deportes, UDN | Spanish-language | |
Supercopa MX | Univision | Spanish-language | |
Campeón de Campeones | Univision | Spanish-language |
Other
- Ascenso MX: ESPN Deportes (FC Juarez and Dorados de Sinaloa home matches), Gol TV (various games per week)
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: Gol TV (English and Spanish) and TV Globo (Portuguese)
- Copa do Brasil: beIN Sports (English and Spanish) and TV Globo (Portuguese)
- Campeonato Paulista: Gol TV (English and Spanish) and TV Globo (Portuguese)
- Campeonato Carioca: Gol TV (English and Spanish) and TV Globo (Portuguese)
- Primera División Argentina: TyC Sports (Spanish)
- Primeira Liga: Gol TV (English and Spanish)
- Taça de Portugal: Gol TV (English and Spanish) and RTP Internacional (Portuguese)
- Eredivisie: ESPN+
- KNVB Cup: beIN Sports (English and Spanish)
- Scottish Professional Football League: Turner Sports
- Scottish Cup: Gol TV (English and Spanish)
- Belgian First Division A: Turner Sports
- Allsvenskan: ESPN+ (1 match per week)
- Swedish Cup: Turner Sports
- Damallsvenskan: OZ.com
- Danish Superliga: ESPN+ (1 match per week)
- A-League: ESPN+
- W-League: ESPN+
- FFA Cup: ESPN+
- Chinese Super League: ESPN+
- Indian Super League: ESPN+ (5 matches per week)
- Florida Cup: ESPN3 and ESPN Deportes (Spanish)
- International Champions Cup: ESPN (English) and ESPN Deportes (Spanish)
- Emirates Cup: ESPN3 and ESPN Deportes (Spanish)
Swimming
NBC Sports has rights to the following events with coverage varying on NBC and NBCSN
Tennis
- ESPN and Tennis Channel have the contracts through 2021. Coverage is aired on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, Tennis Channel and DirecTV.
- NBC Sports and Tennis Channel have the contracts through 2024. Coverage is aired on NBC, NBCSN, Tennis Channel and DirecTV.
- Tennis Channel shows live coverage in the morning and afternoon on weekdays. NBC shows weekend morning and Memorial Day early round matches in the afternoon via tape delay. If a match is still being played, it will be shown live. Tennis Channel cannot show NBC's tape delayed matches. NBC also airs one women's semifinal and one men's semifinal, broadcasting live in the Eastern Time Zone, delayed in all other time zones. NBCSN also broadcasts the second men's semifinal, live in all time zones. NBC broadcasts both finals live, and NBCSN broadcasts the women's doubles final live.
- ESPN[40][41] has the contract through 2023. Tennis Channel and DirecTV also provide coverage. Coverage is as follows:
- Qualifying: ESPN+
- Days 1-6: ESPN, ESPN+, ESPN3 and DirecTV
- Day 7: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN+, ESPN3 and DirecTV
- Days 8 and 9: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN+ and ESPN3
- Days 10-13 including the ladies' and gentlemen's singles finals: ESPN, ESPN+ and ESPN3
- Same-day replays are aired on Tennis Channel throughout the tournament. Highlights of the first week are aired on the middle Sunday on ABC. Same-day replays of the ladies' and gentlemen's singles finals are aired on ABC.
- ESPN has the contract through 2025. Tennis Channel and DirecTV also provide coverage. Coverage is as follows:
- Arthur Ashe Kids' Day: ABC
- Days 1-5: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, and DirecTV
- Days 6-8: ESPN2, ESPN3, and DirecTV
- Days 9-10: ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN3
- Day 11: women's singles semifinals: ESPN
- Day 12: mixed doubles final: ESPN2, men's singles semifinals: ESPN
- Day 13: men's doubles final: ESPN3, women's singles final: ESPN
- Day 14: women's doubles final: ESPN3, men's singles final: ESPN
- A daily preview show, same-day highlights and a daily wrap-up show are aired on Tennis Channel throughout the tournament.[42]
- ESPN2, ESPN3 and Tennis Channel
- ESPN (Indian Wells, Miami, Canada and Cincinnati) and Tennis Channel
- Tennis Channel
- Tennis Channel and beIN Sports
- beIN Sports[43]
- ESPN (Indian Wells, Miami, Canada, Cincinnati, Stanford and New Haven)[44]
- Tennis Channel (Indian Wells, Miami and Charleston)[45]
- beIN Sports (Except U.S. Tournaments)[46]
- Tennis Channel
- Tennis Channel
- ESPN2 and ESPN3
- ESPN3 and Tennis Channel
- ESPN2 (final only) and ESPN3
- ESPN3
Track & Field (Athletics)
NBCUniversal holds rights to the following:[48][49][50]
Winter Sports
- US Figure Skating Championships: NBC
- Alpine Skiing: NBC Sports
- Bobsledding: NBC Sports
- Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships: Fox Sports[51]
Miscellaneous
- X Games: ESPN
- World Weightlifting Championships: ESPN3
- UFC (Except PPV events) bouts air on Fox, FS1 and Fox Deportes
- Bellator MMA bouts air on ESPN Deportes and Spike TV
- Glory (kickboxing): ESPN3 and ESPN Deportes
- New York City Marathon: ESPN
- New York City Half Marathon: ESPN3
- Houston Marathon: ESPN3
- Hockey World League: ESPN3
- World Series of Poker: ESPN
- World Table Tennis Championships: ESPN3
- World Championship of Ping Pong: ESPN3
- European Champions League (table tennis): ESPN3
- Table Tennis World Cup: ESPN3
- ITTF World Tour: ESPN3
- Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament: ESPN3
- European Badminton Championships: ESPN3
- PDC World Darts Championship: BBC_America
- PDC World Cup of Darts: BBC_America
- Premier League Darts: BBC_America
- Professional Bowlers Association: ESPN
- Kabaddi World Cup: ESPN3
- Kabaddi Masters: ESPN3
- Russian Figure Skating Championships: ESPN3
- Mosconi Cup: ESPN3
- Scripps National Spelling Bee: ESPN
- America's Cup: NBCSN
- CEV Champions League: ESPN3
- CEV Women's Champions League: ESPN3
- Italian Women's Volleyball League: ESPN3
- Italian Women's Volleyball Cup: ESPN3
- European Badminton Championships: ESPN3
- Serie A (futsal): ESPN3
- Coppa Italia (futsal): ESPN3
- World Series of Beach Volleyball: ESPN
- FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League and FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League: CBSSN
- Association of Volleyball Professionals: NBCSN
- NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship: ESPNU ESPN2 ESPN
- USA Volleyball College Beach Championship: NBCSN Olympic Channel
- Professional Bull Riders: CBS and CBS Sports
- Australian Football League: Fox Soccer Plus, Fox Sports 2, and WatchAFL[52]
- USA Ultimate College Championships and Triple Crown Tour: ESPNU and ESPN3
- Super League Triathlon: ESPN3
- World Equestrian Games: NBC
- Wrestling World Cup and Wrestling World Championships: NBCSN
- Golden Boy Promotions: ESPN
- Top Rank: ESPN and ESPN+
- Premier Boxing Champions: NBCSN, Spike, CBS, Showtime, Bounce TV, FOX, FS1 (English); Fox Deportes
- Olympic sports: Olympic Channel
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