Americas

US broadcaster Univision has revealed that it sold $135m (€118.5m) in advertising for the Copa América Centenario, almost double what it paid for the domestic Spanish-language rights to the national team football tournament two years ago.

NFL American football team the Kansas City Chiefs has said it will broadcast its preseason games in St. Louis this year after the city lost its franchise to Los Angeles.

The MP & Silva agency has sealed a deal with media company Globo to distribute rights across Latin America for Brazil’s top domestic football properties.

UK free-to-air entertainment channel Dave has acquired exclusive rights for the 2016 Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament.

The parent company of North American NHL ice hockey franchise the Buffalo Sabres has signed a multi-year extension to its local rights deal with MSG Networks, the pay-television channel owned by Madison Square Garden Company.

US pay-television provider Dish Network has dropped carriage of the National Football League’s NFL Network cable-television channel and NFL Red Zone game-day service.

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Bandsports has acquired rights to Categoría Primera A, the top division of Colombian club football.

The Rugby International Marketing arm of national governing body USA Rugby has secured a number of carriage deals for its new OTT platform, the Rugby Channel.

Fight Network, a multi-platform channel dedicated to combat sports, has acquired rights for events operated by New Japan Pro Wrestling.

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox has entered into a multi-year rights partnership with horseracing body the New York Racing Association.

Media company CSI Sports has reached a multi-year carriage agreement with Caribbean telecommunications company Digicel to launch its pay-television channel Fight Sports in the region.

NFL American football team the Los Angeles Rams has secured a multi-year local rights deal with KCBS-TV/CBS 2, a regional television channel operated by US network CBS.

Cable & Wireless Communications told TV Sports Markets this week its entry into the Caribbean sports-rights market was to drive its quad-play offering across the region, and that it did not invest in rights…

Interview with James Tooke, SVP (media & content), Cable & Wireless Communications, on the Caribbean sports rights market and the strategy behind Flow Sports.

The Argentinian government has suspended a sales process for national and international media rights.

Social media website Twitter has linked up with US sports broadcasters Univision and Fox Sports to deliver clips to users featuring coverage of the Copa America Centenario national team football tournament in the US.