Caribbean

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.

The partnership between Concacaf, the governing body of football in the Caribbean, North America and Central America, and the Traffic Sports USA agency, has been curtailed.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Mexico has retained rights to the Euroleague Basketball club tournament in Central and South America and the Caribbean basin.

The Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition has said it is set for a significantly enhanced reach this season after confirming the list of global broadcast partners for its 2015 edition.

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

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has agreed a three-year deal to sublicense exclusive free-to-air rights to Fifa football competitions in Trinidad & Tobago.

Multinational telecommunications company Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has acquired rights to the 2016 summer Olympic Games for the pan-Caribbean region.

Caribbean telecommunications company Digicel has signed a multi-year broadcasting partnership with North American basketball league the NBA.

The Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) consortium of broadcasters has acquired rights for the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN Caribbean has acquired exclusive rights for live coverage of the Nagico Super50 cricket tournament.

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has acquired exclusive rights in the Caribbean for events operated by Fifa, football’s global governing body.