Americas

Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica has announced plans to launch a number of new video services in seven Latin American markets.

Brazilian media company Globo has been awarded rights for the Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee through to 2032.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has agreed a multi-year deal for rights to the ATP World Tour men’s tennis series.

Pan-European motorsports channel Motors TV has secured a carriage deal with Dish Network’s OTT service Sling International in the US.

The Brazilian Basketball League (LNB) has enhanced the reach of its top-tier club competition, the NBB, through a new two-season rights deal with commercial broadcaster RedeTV.

Imagina, the operator of the Mediapro agency, will appoint a new management team at its Media World Sports affiliate company after two of its executives were suspended on allegations of corruption surrounding football rights.

The Major League Baseball Advanced Media division of North America’s Major League Baseball has expanded its distribution partnership with digital sports news agency SendtoNews.

Telecommunications company Cable & Wireless has agreed a multi-year regional partnership with English Premier League football club Manchester United, under which its pay-television platform Flow will become the exclusive distributor of the team’s in-house television channel MUTV in the Caribbean.

US media company Time Warner has invested $15.8m (€14.9m) in Uninterrupted, the multimedia network for sports lifestyle content created by basketball superstar LeBron James and business partner Maverick Carter.

Concacaf, the governing body of football in the Caribbean, North America and Central America, and the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) have today (Wednesday) awarded the contract to market and service the commercial rights to the 2016 Copa América Centenario national team tournament to the IMG agency and Soccer United Marketing.

NFL American football franchise the Jacksonville Jaguars has entered into a multi-faceted strategic partnership with virtual reality company Voke through which it claims it will offer an unprecedented game day experience to fans at its EverBank Field stadium.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has retained its exclusive rights to Curling Canada’s Season of Champions events for the 2015-16 season.

Peter Nelson has been named as the new head of US pay-television broadcaster HBO Sports.

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster ESPN has unveiled a multi-platform, TV everywhere plan ahead of its coverage of the 2016 Olympic Games in the Latin America region.

US pay-television broadcaster Tennis Channel has entered into a partnership with the United States Tennis Association designed to promote its premium digital-subscription service, Tennis Channel Plus.

Canadian broadcast group Asian Television Network has acquired exclusive rights in the country for the 2015 men’s and women’s Hockey World League Finals.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has withdrawn its offer to acquire Canal del Fútbol, the broadcaster that has exclusive rights to domestic football in Chile, according to Chilean newspaper El Mercurio.

US sports broadcaster ESPN has struck a deal to stream live coverage of domestic ice hockey competition the National Women’s Hockey League.