Americas

Bolivian state broadcaster Bolivia TV has acquired rights to the Copa América Centenario ahead of its national team’s opening game in the football tournament on June 6.

The Brazilian Basketball League (LNB) has entered into a partnership with Facebook through which it will become the first domestic sports organisation to stream games via the social media platform’s Facebook Live service.

Sunday’s 100th staging of the Indianapolis 500, the showpiece race of the IndyCar motor racing series, will receive full national coverage in the United States for the first time since 1950 after local television blackout restrictions were lifted.

The Conference USA organisation has sealed domestic rights deals with three broadcasters – ESPN, CBS Sports Network, and American Sports Network.

Paraguayan football fans will be able to watch their national team in action at the Copa América Centenario after a broadcast deal was concluded for the special edition of the tournament, which commences in the United States next month.

The International Olympic Committee has signed up as the first client of Playmaker Media, a new video streaming technology support service that has been launched by the NBC Sports Digital division of US media group NBCUniversal.

The NBC Sports Group division of US media company NBCUniversal has acquired exclusive media rights in the country to UK horseracing showpiece Royal Ascot under a multi-year deal.

Mexican Liga MX football club Club Deportivo Guadalajara has confirmed it will form its own broadcast platform after electing to end its long-running rights partnership with pay-television operator Televisa.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has brokered long-term rights deals with broadcasters in Canada, Denmark and Germany for a number of leading ice hockey events.

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has entered into a partnership with US pay-television broadcaster Tennis Channel ahead of this year’s French Open tennis tournament.

US pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has made its first move into college sport by agreeing a deal with the Conference USA organisation.

Mexican media company Televisa has acquired rights for the NBA North American basketball league.

The Argentinian government has launched a tender process for the 2017 season of the ‘Football for All’ scheme, which reserves domestic football coverage in Argentina for free-to-air television, despite uncertainty over the initiative and the future of the domestic game as a whole.

Le Sports, which is operated by Chinese internet company LeEco, has appointed Yu Hang as its new chief operating officer.

Media company Liberty Global has completed a deal to acquire Cable & Wireless Communications, the London-listed Caribbean telecommunications operator, in an agreement it says will create the leading television, broadband and telecoms firm in Latin America and the Caribbean.

North American basketball league the NBA has partnered with media and technology company BroadbandTV to launch a new platform designed as a community for video creators.