Brazil

Surfing

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN Brasil has extended its rights to the World Surf League, while Brazilian telco Bandeirantes has agreed a deal with the Professional Bull Riders organisation.

Football

FC Diez Media, the joint venture between the IMG agency and digital media company Perform, is making radical changes to the way Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana media rights are sold, to drive competition in the marketplace and recoup their aggressive minimum guarantee.

Tennis

Brazil’s Grupo Bandeirantes bolstered its tennis coverage with a pair of deals covering several properties with the IMG agency.

Football

Brazilian broadcaster Rede Bandeirantes has declined to strike a sublicensing deal for rights to the 2018 Fifa World Cup, stating the national team football tournament does not fit in with its strategic plans.

Sports broadcaster ESPN has sealed a rights deal with the Brazilian Judo Confederation.

Basketball

Brazilian broadcaster TV Gazeta has acquired rights for the 2018 season of the country’s top women’s basketball league, the LBF.

Tennis

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Bandsports has extended its deal for tennis grand slam the French Open and has also acquired a package of rights for the men’s ATP World Tour.

Football

Conmebol is in the process of settling with Datisa for a nine-figure dollar sum to reclaim rights to the 2019 and 2024 Copa América tournaments.

Basketball

The Brazilian basketball league’s renewed deals with Bandeirantes and Facebook, and a new deal with Twitter, will earn the property no rights fees but satisfies the league’s immediate needs: production services and worldwide exposure.

Football

Mexican pay-television operator Televisa and Brazilian media group Globo were part of a $15m (€12.9m) bribery scheme for media rights to the 2026 and 2030 editions of national team football tournament the Fifa World Cup, according to a prosecution witness in the ongoing US trial into corruption in world football.

Football

A series of leading media companies paid bribes to secure multi-year rights deals for football matches, according to the testimony of a prosecution witness in the ongoing US football corruption trial of three of the sport’s former administrators.

Football

BeIN Media Group will launch tenders for French Ligue 1 media rights in Brazil and Latin America next week, TV Sports Markets understands.

Football

Globo has retained its hold on exclusive rights to Brazilian national team matches, striking a deal well below the Brazilian football federation’s target price

Football

Brazilian commercial broadcaster SBT has acquired rights to the Copa do Nordeste, an annual football competition contested by clubs in the Northeastern region of the country.

Basketball

Brazilian broadcaster Rede Bandeirantes has agreed an extension to its rights deal with the Brazilian Basketball League (LNB) to cover its top-tier club competition, the NBB.

Football

Brazilian sports broadcaster Esporte Interativo has agreed a partnership with social media platform Facebook to enhance coverage of the Campeonato Brasileiro de Aspirantes club football competition.

Football

Brazilian media group Globo has struck an exclusive long-term rights deal for Brazil national team football matches.

Football

Brazilian media group Globo has acquired rights for two football matches featuring the country’s national team next month.