Caribbean

Interview with James Tooke, SVP (media & content), Cable & Wireless Communications, on the Caribbean sports rights market and the strategy behind Flow Sports.

The Cricket Australia national governing body has unveiled a series of overseas rights deals, agreements which include the segmentation of its rights in Africa for the first time.

Media company Liberty Global has completed a deal to acquire Cable & Wireless Communications, the London-listed Caribbean telecommunications operator, in an agreement it says will create the leading television, broadband and telecoms firm in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Cricket Australia has opened a tender process for rights to a number of the country’s national team and domestic league properties in the US, Canada and the Caribbean for the five-year period covering the 2016-17 to 2020-21 seasons.

International sports broadcaster ESPN has extended a rights deal in Spanish-speaking Latin America and the Caribbean for the ATP World Tour, which operates the professional circuit of men’s tennis.

Flow, the Caribbean pay-television platform owned by telecommunications company Cable & Wireless, has acquired rights to Twenty20 cricket competition the Indian Premier League.

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster ESPN has agreed a three-season extension to its rights deal in Latin America and the Caribbean for the MotoGP motorcycling championship.

Flow, the Caribbean pay-television platform owned by telecommunications company Cable & Wireless, has signed a partnership with the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) to be the exclusive broadcast partner and sponsor of the CARIFTA Games.

Flow Sports, the Caribbean pay-television channel owned by telecommunications company Cable & Wireless, has acquired rights to the 2016 Asia Cup national team cricket tournament.

Caribbean pay-television broadcaster SportsMax has renewed and expanded a multi-year rights deal with the NBA North American basketball league.

Tennis Australia has renewed its deal with ESPN for Australian Open rights in Latin America and the Caribbean without putting the rights on the market.

The Sporty Solutionz agency has broadened the reach of the Masters Champions League for the debut season of the Twenty20 cricket competition by striking rights deals covering the Middle East, Pakistan, sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN International has renewed a distribution rights deal in Latin America and the Caribbean for the Australian Open tennis grand slam tournament.

Racecourse Media Group, the holding company responsible for a range of media and data rights involving 34 of the UK’s premier racecourses, has secured a deal to simulcast live coverage of the Dubai World Cup Carnival horse racing series in the Caribbean, as well as North, Central and South America.

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.

Flow Sports, the new Caribbean pay-television channel owned by telecommunications company Cable & Wireless, has commenced operations, providing the region with its first Caribbean-based high-definition sports network.