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


Video Sports broadcasting contracts in the United States



Baseball

Major League Baseball

National Television

  • Fox: 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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

  • USA Softball International Cup: ESPN

Minor League Baseball

MLB Network has a contract with MiLB to air one game each week.

Nippon Professional Baseball

  • Yomiuri Giants: Eleven Sports
  • Other limited coverage is part of the weekend schedule of TV Japan

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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.
  • 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

  • NBA Summer League: ESPN and NBA TV
  • NBA G League: ESPN and NBA TV
  • The Basketball Tournament: ESPN
  • BIG3: Fox, FS1 and FS2
  • ABA Basketball: ESPN3
  • Premier Basketball League: ESPN3
  • Euroleague: NBA TV

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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

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Curling

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

  • Canada Cup of Curling
  • All-Star Curling Skins Game
  • Continental Cup of Curling
  • Canadian Junior Men's and Women's Championships
  • Scotties Tournament of Hearts
  • Tim Hortons Brier

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Cycling

  • Tour de France: NBCSN (NBC shows a weekly one-hour recap)
  • 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
  • Tour of Britain: FuboTV
  • Tour of California: NBCSN
  • USA Pro Cycling Challenge: NBCSN and NBC
  • Liège-Bastogne-Liège: NBCSN
  • Tour of Utah: Fox Sports 1

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eSports

  • EVO Street Fighter V World Championship: ESPN
  • Injustice 2: ESPN3
  • Madden Club Championship: ESPN
  • Madden Bowl: ESPN
  • Overwatch League: ESPN

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Football

National Football League

CBS has rights through the 2022-2023 season to the following:

  • 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 2021-2022 season to the following:

  • Monday Night Football
  • One Wild Card game (simulcast on ABC)
  • Pro Bowl (simulcast on ABC)

Fox has rights through the 2022-2023 season to the following:

  • 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 2022-2023 season to the following:

  • 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 2022-2023 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).

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.

Westwood One has exclusive national radio rights through the 2017-2018 season.

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
  • ACC: ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ACC Network Extra (streaming)
  • The American: ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, CBS Sports Network
    • AAC Championship Game: ESPN
  • BYU home games: ABC, BYUtv, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU
  • Big Ten Conference: ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, FOX, FS1, ESPNU, Big Ten Network, Fox (title game)
  • Big 12 Conference: ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, Fox, FS1 and FSN (at least one Longhorns home game exclusively on Longhorn Network)
    • Big 12 Championship Game: ABC (in even years) and Fox (in odd years)
  • Conference USA: ESPN, beIN Sports, CBS Sports Network and ASN
    • Conference USA Football Championship Game: ESPN
  • Mountain West Conference: ESPN Networks and CBS Sports Network
    • MWC Championship Game: ESPN
  • Notre Dame home games and Bayou Classic: NBC
  • Pac-12 Conference: ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, Fox, FS1 and Pac-12 Network
    • Pac-12 Football Championship Game: Fox (in even years) and ESPN (in odd years)
  • SEC: CBS, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, SEC Network
  • Sun Belt Conference: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPNU and ESPN3
  • Mid-American Conference: ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3
  • Ivy League: NBCSN
  • Colonial Athletic Association: NBCSN
  • Other games and conferences: CBS Sports Network, ESPNU, WAC Sports Network, Southland Conference Television Network, Big Sky TV, Sun Belt Network, CSS, Altitude

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: Cure Bowl (2015-present)
  • Fox: Foster Farms Bowl (2016-present), Holiday Bowl (2017)
  • ASN: Arizona Bowl (2015-present)
  • 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
  • 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

  • CBS Sports Network

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)
  • Champions Indoor Football: Pluto TV holds streaming rights.

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Golf

Men

  • Masters Tournament - ESPN/CBS
  • U.S. Open - Fox Sports 1/Fox
  • British Open - Golf Channel/NBC
  • PGA Championship - TNT/CBS
  • Ryder Cup - Golf Channel/NBC
  • The Players Championship - Golf Channel/NBC
  • The Presidents Cup - Golf Channel/NBC
  • FedEx Cup tour events (regular season and playoffs) - CBS/NBC/Golf Channel
  • Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship - ESPN
  • Latin America Amateur Championship - ESPN
  • OneAsia Tour - Eleven Sports

Women

  • ANA Inspiration: Golf Channel
  • Women's PGA Championship: Golf Channel/NBC
  • 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

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Hockey

National Hockey League

  • NBCSN: One to three regular-season games/week, All-Star Game, playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals (games 2, 3), through 2021. 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).
  • 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) 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

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Horse Racing

Triple Crown

  • NBC has the rights of:
    • Kentucky Derby through 2025.
    • Preakness Stakes through 2022.
    • Belmont Stakes through 2020.
  • NBCSN provides supplementary coverage of all three Triple Crown races, including previews and associated undercard races on Fridays preceding the Saturday Triple Crown Races:
    • Kentucky Oaks
    • Black-Eyed Susan Stakes
    • Brooklyn Handicap

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.

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.

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Lacrosse

Major League Lacrosse

  • ESPN+ and Lax Sports Network

National Lacrosse League

  • Fox, FS1 and FS2

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

  • ESPN2 & ESPN+: FIL World Lacrosse Championship

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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 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.
  • Xfinity Series
    • Fox Sports airs the first 14 races.
      • Fox airs four races; Fox Sports 1 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.
  • 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 2017, the spring race at Martinsville and the race at Pocono), 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.
  • 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.

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.

Univision Deportes Network has Spanish-language rights.

Other

  • FIA Formula 2: ESPN3
  • GP3 Series: ESPN+
  • Porsche Supercup: ESPN+
  • World Rally Championship: Eleven Sports
  • 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
  • Global RallyCross Championship: NBC Sports
  • Dakar Rally: NBCSN
  • ARCA Racing Series: Fox Sports/CBS Sports Network
  • 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: Fox Sports
  • Superbike World Championship: beIN Sports
  • FIA World Rally Cross Championship (WRX): beIN Sports

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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.
  • 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

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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.
  • State of Origin: Fox Sports 2 televises all three games of the series.
  • 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 The Rugby Channel
  • Super Rugby: ESPN+
  • European Rugby Champions Cup: ESPN3
  • European Rugby Challenge Cup: ESPN3
  • Currie Cup: ESPN+
  • Mitre 10 Cup: ESPN+
  • Major League Rugby: ESPN+ and CBS Sports Network
  • National Rugby Championship:
  • Pro14: beIN Sports and The Rugby Channel
  • Anglo-Welsh Cup: The Rugby Channel
  • RFU Championship: The Rugby Channel
  • Test matches: ESPN+ and The Rugby Channel

NBC Sports has rights to all World Rugby international events through 2023, including:

  • 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:

  • Six Nations Championship
  • English Premiership
  • Varsity Cup Championship

Rugby sevens

  • World Rugby Sevens Series: ESPN+
  • Premiership Rugby Sevens Series: The Rugby Channel
  • Collegiate Rugby Championship: NBCSN

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Soccer

FIFA

FOX, FS1, FS2 in English, and Telemundo, Universo, Telemundo Deportes in Spanish, have television rights to all FIFA events from 2015 to 2026 including the following:

  • 2018, 2022 and 2026 FIFA World Cup
  • 2019 and 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
  • 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup
  • 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup
  • 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
  • 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
  • 2018 FIFA Club World Cup
  • 2020 FIFA Futsal World Cup
  • 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

UEFA

ESPN, in English and Univision in Spanish, has rights to UEFA national teams events through 2022, including the following:

  • UEFA Euro 2020
    • UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
  • UEFA Nations League
  • European 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers
  • UEFA European Under-21 Championship
  • UEFA European Under-19 Championship
  • UEFA European Under-17 Championship
  • UEFA Women's Championship
  • UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
  • UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
  • UEFA Futsal Championship

Turner Sports, in English and Univision in Spanish, has rights to UEFA clubs events through 2021, including the following:

  • UEFA Champions League
  • UEFA Europa League
  • UEFA Super Cup

CONMEBOL

  • Copa Libertadores: Fox Deportes (Spanish), Fox Soccer Plus (English)
  • Copa Sudamericana: Fox Deportes (Spanish)
  • Copa América: Telemundo Deportes (Spanish)
  • 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification: beIN Sports (English and Spanish)

CONCACAF

  • CONCACAF Champions League: Univision and UDN (Spanish, from 2012 to 2022)
  • CONCACAF Gold Cup: Fox Soccer Plus (English), Univision and UDN (Spanish, from 2012 to 2022)
  • 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification: beIN Sports (English, except USA home matches and Mexico home matches)

AFC

  • AFC Champions League: Eleven Sports (English)
  • AFC Asian Cup: Eleven Sports (English)
  • 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification: ESPN (English)

CAF

beIN Sports, in English and Spanish, has rights to CAF events including the following:

  • CAF Champions League
  • CAF Confederation Cup
  • CAF Super Cup
  • Africa Cup of Nations
  • African Nations Championship
  • 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

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.

Major League Soccer

  • ESPN/ESPN2: At least 34 matches per season, including a weekly Sunday 5 pm ET telecast on ESPN or ESPN2, a share of MLS Cup Playoff matches, MLS Cup in odd-numbered years, MLS All-Star Game in even-numbered years.
  • Fox Sports: At least 34 matches per season, including a weekly Sunday 7 pm ET telecast on Fox Sports 1, a share of MLS Cup Playoff matches, MLS Cup in even-numbered years, MLS All-Star Game in odd-numbered years.
  • Univision: At least 34 matches per season, including a weekly Friday 7 pm ET or 11 pm ET telecast on UniMas, two MLS Cup Playoff matches, and Spanish rights to the MLS Cup and MLS All-Star Game on Univision. UDN will televise 5-7 Friday doubleheaders in May and June.

National English-language radio rights are held exclusively by SiriusXM Satellite Radio through its SiriusXM FC brand, while Spanish-language rights are held exclusively by ESPN Deportes Radio.

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

  • United Soccer League: ESPN+ and ESPN3
  • National Women's Soccer League: Lifetime, Six NWSL Games of the Week on ESPNEWS, with all games not nationally televised streamed on the NWSL YouTube channel (English).

Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup

  • Semifinals air on ESPN2
  • Final airs on ESPN2 (in English) and ESPN Deportes in Spanish

College Soccer

  • College Cup: ESPNU

National Teams

Friendly Matches

  • England national football team: Fox Sports (English) and Fox Deportes (Spanish)
  • Spain national football team: ESPN (English) and ESPN Deportes (Spanish)
  • Germany national football team: ESPN (English) and ESPN Deportes (Spanish)
  • France national football team: ESPN (English) and ESPN Deportes (Spanish)
  • Italy national football team:
  • Brazil national football team: beIN Sports (English and Spanish)
  • Mexico national football team matches played in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.: Univision (Spanish) and Fox Sports (English)

National Competitions

England

  • Premier League: NBC, NBCSN, and USA (English); and Telemundo and Universo (Spanish) (through 2021-22 season)
  • English Football League: ESPN+
  • FA Cup: Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, Fox Soccer Plus (English) and Fox Deportes (Spanish)
  • Football League Cup: ESPN+, League Cup final on ESPN
  • FA Community Shield: Fox Sports 1 (English) and Fox Deportes (Spanish)

Spain

  • La Liga: beIN Sports (English and Spanish)
  • Copa del Rey: beIN Sports (English and Spanish)
    • Copa del Rey Final: ESPN (English) and ESPN Deportes (Spanish)
  • Supercopa de España: ESPN (English) and ESPN Deportes (Spanish)

Italy

  • Serie A: beIN Sports (English and Spanish) and Rai Italia
  • Coppa Italia: Gol TV (English and Spanish)
  • Supercoppa Italiana: Gol TV (English and Spanish)

Germany

  • Bundesliga: Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, Fox Soccer Plus (English) and Fox Deportes (Spanish)
  • DFB-Pokal: ESPN3 (English) and ESPN Deportes (Spanish)
  • DFL-Supercup: Fox Soccer Plus (English) and Fox Deportes (Spanish)

France

  • Ligue 1: beIN Sports (English and Spanish) and TV5Monde
  • Coupe de France: beIN Sports (English and Spanish) and TV5Monde
  • Coupe de la Ligue: beIN Sports (English and Spanish) and TV5Monde
  • Trophée des Champions: beIN Sports (English and Spanish) and TV5Monde

Mexico

  • Liga MX
    • Matches hosted by América, Atlas, Cruz Azul, Guadalajara, Monarcas Morelia, León, Querétaro, UANL, Monterrey, Necaxa, UNAM, Pachuca, Puebla, Santos Laguna, Tijuana, Toluca and Veracruz are broadcast live in the United States by Univision, UDN, Unimas or Galavisión (Spanish). (Some matches are broadcast by ESPN Deportes).
  • Ascenso MX
    • ESPN Deportes: FC Juárez home matches
    • Gol TV: 4 or 5 games per week and Mexican playoffs (Liguilla)
    • Mexico TV: one game

Other

  • Florida Cup: ESPN3 and ESPN Deportes (Spanish)
  • International Champions Cup: ESPN (English) and ESPN Deportes (Spanish)
  • Emirates Cup: ESPN3 and ESPN Deportes (Spanish)
  • Primeira Liga: Gol TV (English and Spanish)
  • Taça de Portugal: Gol TV (English and Spanish) and RTP Internacional (Portuguese)
  • Eredivisie: OZ.com
  • KNVB Cup: beIN Sports (English and Spanish)
  • Scottish Professional Football League: Turner Sports
  • Scottish Cup: Gol TV (English and Spanish)
  • 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)
  • Damallsvenskan: OZ.com
  • A-League: OZ.com

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Swimming

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

  • World Swimming Championships
  • Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
  • United States Swimming National Championships

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Tennis

Australian Open

  • ESPN and Tennis Channel have the contracts through 2021. 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 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.

U.S. Open

  • 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.

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

  • Tennis Channel and beIN Sports

WTA Finals

  • beIN Sports

WTA Premier tournaments

  • ESPN (Indian Wells, Miami, Canada, Cincinnati, Stanford and New Haven)
  • Tennis Channel (Indian Wells, Miami and Charleston)
  • beIN Sports (Except U.S. Tournaments)

WTA International tournaments

  • beIN Sports (Except Washington Open)
  • Tennis Channel (Washington Open)

Davis Cup

  • Tennis Channel

Fed Cup

  • Tennis Channel

US Open Series

  • ESPN2 and ESPN3

Laver Cup

  • ESPN3 and Tennis Channel

World TeamTennis

  • ESPN2 (final only) and ESPN3

Tie Break Tens

  • ESPN3

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Track & Field (Athletics)

NBCUniversal holds rights to the following:

  • IAAF World Championships
  • IAAF World Indoor Championships
  • IAAF World Cross Country Championships
  • IAAF World Junior Championships
  • IAAF Diamond League
  • IAAF World Relays
  • USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships
  • USA Indoor Track & Field Championships
  • US Olympic Trials



Winter Sports

  • US Figure Skating Championships: NBC
  • Alpine Skiing: NBC Sports
  • Bobsledding: NBC Sports
  • Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships: Fox Sports



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
  • 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



References

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