Brazil

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN Brasil has acquired rights to Wimbledon, the UK’s grand slam tennis tournament, under a sublicensing deal with the event’s rights-holder in Brazil, pay-television broadcaster Globosat.

ESPN has renewed a sublicensing deal with rival international pay-television sports broadcaster Fox Sports Latin America to acquire rights for the Bundesliga top division of German football across Latin America and certain territories in the Caribbean.

Brazilian pay-television channel Sports Plus is set to close by the end of the year, according to multiple reports.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) expects the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to break all broadcast viewing records and exceed a cumulative global audience of four billion people for the first time.

Major League Soccer will enjoy a substantial increase in exposure in Brazil in the 2015 season, which got under way at the end of March.

International pay-television broadcaster ESPN Latin America and sister broadcaster ESPN Brasil have acquired exclusive media rights in Latin America for the Rugby World Cup, rugby union’s top national team tournament.

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Globosat has signed a multi-year partnership to show events from the World Surf League.

SRO Motorsports Group, promoter of the GT Series, has sealed a number of new rights deals ahead of the start of the 2015 season of the motor racing championship.

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Globosat has agreed a four-year rights deal with North America’s Major League Soccer.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN Brasil has acquired rights to the European qualifying games for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team football tournaments through a sublicensing deal with rights-holder and rival pay-television broadcaster Globosat.

Brazilian sports broadcaster Esporte Interativo has agreed a three-year rights deal for pre-season club football competition the International Champions Cup.

A number of Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A clubs are challenging the revenue distribution model employed by the rights-holder of the top division of Brazilian football, media group Globo, according to the O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper.

The financial might of major US network Turner Broadcasting System, allied to strong local market knowledge, will enable Brazilian sports broadcaster Esporte Interativo to be both competitive in the rights market and distinctive from rivals in its programming, the broadcaster believes.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN Brasil has acquired rights to Italy’s Serie A, the top division of football in the country, under a sublicensing deal with the league’s rights-holder in Brazil, pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports.

The International Olympic Committee has said it holds no plans to drive an extended roll out of ultra high-definition 4K coverage for the 2016 summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Globosat has agreed a multi-year rights deal with North American basketball league the NBA.