The NWSL logo is displayed before a 2022 playoff game. Photo: Ira L. Black / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Images via AFP/FileSource: AFPThe National Women's Soccer League announced an historic new media rights deal on Thursday worth $240 million over four years in partnership with multiple media outlets. The news comes two days before the NWSL championship match between Gotham FC and OL Reign, which will mark the career finale for US women's soccer icon Megan Rapinoe and another USA star, Ali Krieger. Now she'll head into retirement knowing the NWSL has inked the biggest media rights package ever for a North American women's sports league -- dwarfing the $1.5 million annually it received in its previous deal with broadcaster CBS. Berman said the deal, which includes CBS, ESPN, Prime Video and Scripps Sports, "sends a very strong message to the marketplace and to our fans that we are in a five-way partnership here.

Source: The Star November 10, 2023 06:59 UTC