Sports broadcasting contracts in the United States

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This page refers to sports broadcasting contracts in the United States.

Baseball

Major League Baseball

National Television

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  • Fox:[1] 12 Saturday afternoon games; All-Star Game; one League Championship Series (shared with Fox Sports 1); World Series
  • Fox Sports 1: 40 Saturday afternoon games; two Division Series; one League Championship Series (shared with Fox).
  • Turner Sports: Sunday afternoon games carried by TBS for the last thirteen weeks of the season. Postseason coverage consists of one Wild Card Game and the Division Series and 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

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  • 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 has rights to the 2017 edition of the World Baseball Classic. In addition to the 39 tournament matches, MLBN televises the four final qualifiers.[4] ESPN Deportes holds Spanish-language rights to the WBC.

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, Fox Sports 1, FSN, Fox College Sports, including several school- and conference-specific networks (Big Ten Network, BYUtv, the Pac-12 Network, and the 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; the final is traditionally carried by ABC, whose sports division is now run by ESPN.

Minor League Baseball

CBS Sports Network has a contract with MiLB to air one game each week.[5]

Nippon Professional Baseball

Basketball

National Basketball Association

National Television

  • ABC: Fifteen regular season games (Christmas Day doubleheader, 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-five regular season games (mostly on Wednesday and Friday night doubleheaders; occasional Sunday 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-four 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 regular season games on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday 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, playoffs, and WNBA Finals; All Star Game; provisional coverage on ABC through 2025; additional games on NBATV.

College Basketball

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Post-season

  • NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament: CBS/Turner
    • Every game in the NCAA Tournament will be 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 other three networks carrying other games.
      • The Sweet Sixteen (regional semifinals) are on CBS
      • For 2014 and 2015, two Elite Eight (regional finals) will air on CBS TBS will broadcast the national semifinfals, 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.
  • 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.

Regular-season

FIBA

ESPN has English and Spanish rights from 2013 to 2015 to FIBA events including the following:[6][7]

Other Leagues

Cricket

Curling

More than 300 hours of live curling, broadcast by TSN in Canada, will be live-streamed on ESPN3, including:

Cycling

Football

National Football League

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CBS has rights through the 2022-2023 season to the following:[10][11]

  • AFC Sunday Afternoon package, see more
  • One Thanksgiving game
  • One Wild Card game
  • One/Two Divisional playoff game
  • AFC Championship
  • Super Bowls 50 (2016), LIII (2019), and LVI (2022)

ESPN has rights through the 2021-2022 season to the following:[12][13]

Fox has rights through the 2022-2023 season to the following:[11][15]

  • NFC Sunday Afternoon package, see more
  • One Thanksgiving game
  • One Wild Card game
  • One/Two Divisional playoff game
  • NFC Championship
  • Super Bowls LI (2017), LIV (2020), and LVII (2023)

NBC has rights through the 2022-2023 season to the following:[11][16]

CBS and NBC share rights through the 2017-18 season to the following:

NFL Network televises 18 games under the Thursday Night Football banner during the regular season (14 on Thursday, four late season games on Saturday).

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.[17][18]

NFL on Westwood One Sports has exclusive national radio rights through the 2017-2018 season.[19][20]

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.

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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

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Post-season

Regular-season

Radio

Arena football

  • CBS Sports Network: Has rights to 17 regular season games and two postseason games.
  • ESPN has rights to broadcast 12 regular season and three postseason games per year, including ArenaBowl and one conference championship game, as well as 80 or more games annually on ESPN3.

Other professional leagues

Golf

Men

Women

Hockey

National Hockey League

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  • NBCSN: One to three regular-season games/week, All-Star Game, playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals (games 3, 4), through 2021.[28]
  • NBC: Black Friday game, New Year's Day game, Sunday afternoon late-season games, weekend afternoon playoff games, and Stanley Cup Finals (games 1-2, 5–7), through 2021).[28]
  • NHL Network: Wednesday, Friday and occasional Sunday games. Simulcasts of CBC'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
  • NBC Deportes: Spanish-language simulcasts of NHL regular season games, All-Star Game, playoffs and Stanley Cup Finals on NBC Universo and Telemundo through 2021.

Additionally, viewers near the Canadian 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

Dial Global (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, ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes.

National Women 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

Other Ice Hockey Leagues

Ice Hockey World Championships: NBC Sports

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

Champions Hockey League: ONE World Sports

Horse Racing

Triple Crown

Breeders' Cup

Road to the Kentucky Derby

Lacrosse

Major League Lacrosse

National Lacrosse League

  • ESPN3: 8 regular season games (simulcast of Canadian TSN and TSN2 broadcasts[33]

College Lacrosse

Varsity lacrosse

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

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Fox Sports and NBC Sports have contracts for all NASCAR events through at least 2024.

IndyCar

Formula One

NBC Sports has English-language rights from 2013 through 2017. Races will be televised by NBC, NBCSN or CNBC and streamed on NBC Sports Live Extra.[34][35]

Univision Deportes Network has Spanish-language rights.

Other

Multi-discipline events

Rugby

Rugby league

Rugby union

NBC Sports has rights to:

DirecTV has rights to:[40][41]

Rugby sevens

NBC Sports has rights to:

Soccer

FIFA

Fox, FS1, FS2 in English, and Telemundo, NBC Universo, NBC Deportes in Spanish, have television rights to FIFA events from 2015 to 2026 including the following:[43]

UEFA

ESPN, in English and Spanish, has rights to UEFA events from 2012 to 2016 including the following:[44][45]

Fox Sports has rights to the following:[46]

ESPN Deportes has rights to the following:

CONMEBOL

CONCACAF

FS1, in English, has rights to CONCACAF events from 2012 to 2016 including the following:[48][49]

Univision Deportes, in Spanish and Portuguese, has rights to CONCACAF events from 2012 to 2022 including the following:[50][51]

USA Soccer

U.S. 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.[52]

Major League Soccer

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Games not televised nationally are aired by regional sports networks or local broadcast television stations. Teams may also have a contract with a local radio broadcaster to air their games. Some teams air games exclusively in Spanish on radio, others have English only or an English and Spanish radio broadcaster.

Other U.S. Soccer Leagues

Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup

  • Final airs on ESPN2 (in English) and UDN in Spanish

National Teams

Friendly games

National Competitions

English Club

Spanish Club

Italian Club

German Club

French Club

Mexican Club

  • Liga MX
    • Matches hosted by América, Cruz Azul, Guadalajara, Chiapas, Querétaro, UANL, Monterrey, UNAM, Puebla, and Toluca are broadcast live in the United States by Univision, UDN, Unimas or Galavisión (Spanish).
    • Matches hosted by Leon and Pachuca are broadcast live in the United States by Telemundo and, NBC Universo (Spanish).
    • Matches hosted by Atlas, Monarcas Morelia, Santos and Tijuana are broadcast in the United States by Azteca.
    • Matches hosted by Dorados de Sinaloa are broadcast in the United States by ESPN Deportes.
  • Ascenso MX
    • GolTV: 4 or 5 games per week and Mexican playoffs (Liguilla)
    • Mexico TV: one game

Other

Swimming

NBC Sports has rights to the following events with coverage varying on NBC and NBCSN

Tennis

Australian Open

  • ESPN and Tennis Channel have the contracts. Coverage is aired on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, Tennis Channel and DirecTV.

French Open

  • 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.

The Championships, Wimbledon

  • ESPN[56][57] has the contract through 2023. Tennis Channel and DirecTV also provide coverage. Coverage is as follows:
    • Days 1-6: ESPN, ESPN3 and DirecTV
    • Day 7: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 and DirecTV
    • Days 8 and 9: ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN3
    • Days 10-13 including the ladies' and gentlemen's singles finals: 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.

US Open

  • ESPN has the contract through 2025. Tennis Channel and DirecTV also provide coverage. Coverage is as follows:
    • Arthur Ashe Kids' Day: ESPN2
    • Days 1-8: ESPN2, ESPN3, and DirecTV
    • Days 9-10: ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN3
    • Day 11: women's singles semifinals: ESPN
    • Day 12: mixed doubles final: ESPN3, 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.[58]

ATP World Tour Finals

  • ESPN2, ESPN3 and Tennis Channel

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

  • ESPN (Indian Wells, Miami, Canada and Cincinnati) and Tennis Channel

ATP World Tour 500

  • Tennis Channel

ATP World Tour 250

WTA Tour

  • ESPN2, ESPN3 and Tennis Channel

WTA Tour Championships

  • ESPN2 (final only), ESPN3 and Tennis Channel

Davis Cup

  • Tennis Channel

Fed Cup

  • Tennis Channel

US Open Series

  • ESPN2 and ESPN3

World TeamTennis

  • ESPN2 (final only) and ESPN3

Track & Field (Athletics)

Winter Sports

Miscellaneous

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