Americas

Ed Delaney has been appointed to the newly-created position of executive vice-president of operations at Fox Sports Media Group, a division of US network Fox.

Pan-regional media company Turner Latin America has acquired a “significant minority stake” in Brazilian free-to-air sports broadcaster Esporte Interativo.

US cable television channel One World Sports has acquired rights to New York Cosmos football games – a move that marks the network’s first entry into the domestic sports rights market.

Wyc Grousbeck, managing partner and chief executive of the Boston Celtics, has launched an investment fund for sports media properties.

French-language Canadian pay-television network TVA Sports has agreed a four-year rights deal, from 2013-14 to 2016-17, with American football’s NFL.

The Fox Sports Media Group has confirmed the acquisition of rights for European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup tournaments and sublicensed half of the matches to ESPN.

American football’s NFL has agreed a four-year extension, from 2014-15 to 2017-18, to its partnership with telecommunications company Verizon.

The CBS Sports division of US network CBS has appointed David Berson as its new president.

Ultimate Fighting Championship has agreed a deal with Televisa Networks to air UFC in 20 Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America and launch a new pay-television network.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN has signed a multi-year extension to its broadcast rights deal with golf’s US PGA Tour.

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The Bolivian Football Federation has been ordered to pay B16.48m (€1.85m/$2.38m) in tax from revenue from the sale of television rights to 2006 Fifa World Cup qualifying games, according to Reuters.

Uefa has confirmed new broadcast rights deals in the United States, Latin America and Turkey for the qualification competitions to Euro 2016 and the 2018 Fifa World Cup.

The local organising committee of the 2013 World Games has awarded host broadcast rights to Colombian public-service broadcaster RTVC.

Owners of the Los Angles Dodgers MLB team, Guggenheim Baseball Management, are being forced to rework their local rights deal with Time Warner Cable, according to the New York Post.

Kevin O’Connor has stepped down from his role as Lagardère Unlimited’s chief operating officer in the United States and South America with immediate effect.