Americas
State broadcaster bids to avoid Argentina blackout repeat
TV Pública, the state broadcaster in Argentina, has insisted it is in talks to sublicense rights to the Argentina national team for the remainder of the 2026 Fifa World Cup qualifiers after a rare blackout last night.
Amazon steps up Canadian presence with TSN deal
Amazon has further strengthened its presence in the Canadian sports media market after reaching an agreement to carry Bell Media’s TSN service on its Prime Video channels.
Matthews leaves SportsMax CEO role
Nicolas Matthews has left his role as chief executive of SportsMax, the Caribbean pay-television broadcaster, SportBusiness understands.
Two steps forward, one back for Diamond in bankruptcy case
Major League Baseball has piled the pressure on Diamond Sports Group, claiming it will consider "more drastic" legal action should the firm's emergence from bankruptcy not be accelerated
Premier League on ESPN in Caribbean as Verticast deal ‘concludes’
Premier League coverage in the Caribbean will be shown by the ESPN channels and made available to Flow TV subscribers after a deal with pay-television broadcaster Verticast ended one season early.
LFU deals take Brazilian clubs close to R$2bn-per-year mark
Brazil’s top-tier Série A has moved closer to the R$2bn-per-year mark in guaranteed media rights earnings from 2025, after the Liga Forte União bloc of clubs agreed multiple deals in principle with Record, YouTube and Amazon.
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon set for five-year Brasileirão domestic deal
SportBusiness understands that Amazon Prime Video will soon finalise a deal to exclusively show one match per week – a home fixture of a club belonging to the Liga Forte Uniao bloc – over five years, from 2025 to 2029.
IMG to recruit two leading Americas executives
IMG is currently looking to recruit a vice-president of football in the Americas and a vice-president of rights in Latin America after losing some key experience in the region
Comcast carriage row hits Big Ten entrants
Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington have seen the start of their era as Big Ten Conference schools blacked out to Comcast customers in their home markets, as the latter’s Big Ten Network carriage row rumbled into the start of the new season.
ESPN goes dark on DirecTV amid carriage, antitrust disputes
Disney and DirecTV failed to agree on a licensing deal, leading to Disney-owned channels — including ESPN and ABC — going dark Sunday night in the middle of US Open broadcasting and just before a marquee col…
Commercial head Sluzewski Monti leaves Torneos
Santiago Sluzewski Monti, who has headed up media rights trading at Torneos for the last eight years, is leaving the Argentina-based rights agency.
ESPN lands US Open renewal, cedes host broadcast
ESPN has renewed its rights to the US Open in a long-term 12-year deal that will run to 2037 but sees the United States Tennis Association assume host broadcast duties.
CazéTV suspends Ligue 1 broadcasts amid piracy concerns
CazéTV makes move after being “informed” that French users were circumventing geoblocking measures to watch its Brazilian coverage of Ligue 1.
Streaming to fore in NBA motion to dismiss WBD case
The National Basketball Association has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit lodged by Warner Bros. Discovery over its rejection of a matching rights proposal
Relevent appoints Bratches as chairman
Former ESPN and Formula 1 executive Sean Bratches has landed a new role as chairman of US-based sports marketing agency Relevent Sports.
In Focus: US college sports
SportBusiness Media takes a deep dive into the numbers driving the commercial success of US college sports.
Bundesliga extends multi-platform strategy in Brazil
The Bundesliga has opted for the status quo of exposure over exclusivity in Brazil with seven broadcasters in place for the 2024-25 season, which kicks off tomorrow.
Late twist in Paramount saga as FuboTV chair makes bid
The future of Paramount Global is not yet set in stone, after veteran US media executive Edgar Bronfman Jr submitted a late $4.3bn (€3.9bn) takeover bid.