Caribbean

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.

Media company Liberty Global has announced a £3.5bn (€4.9bn/$5.3bn) deal to acquire Cable & Wireless Communications, the London-listed Caribbean telecommunications operator.

Flow TV, the Caribbean pay-television broadcaster owned by telco Cable & Wireless, has acquired exclusive live rights for football’s Fifa World Cup qualifiers in the region.

Fox Sports Latin America this week enhanced its football portfolio with a deal for US Major League Soccer. 

Multinational telecommunications company Cable & Wireless Communications has agreed a three-season deal for the exclusive rights in the Caribbean to football’s English Premier League.

Caribbean cable-television broadcaster Flow has acquired broadcast rights in the region for the NFL American football league.

Former Fifa official Jack Warner generated a profit of at least $17m (€15.2m) on football World Cup media rights that were sold to him for a fraction of their true value, according to the Press Association Sport news agency.

Pay-television channel Fight Sports has secured the rights to Floyd Mayweather Jr’s upcoming fight against Andre Berto in multiple territories across Europe, Asia and the Caribbean.

Caribbean telecommunications company Digicel has secured a five-year broadcast rights deal across more than 25 markets in the region for LaLiga, the top division of Spanish football.