Caribbean

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has agreed a two-year rights deal for exclusive live coverage in the UK and Ireland of the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will stream live coverage of the inaugural World Relays event in the Bahamas this weekend.

Pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has acquired rights for the 2014 Ice Hockey World Championship across South America and the Caribbean.

The MP & Silva agency said that its deal earlier this month for the FIM Superbike World Championship in Latin America, excluding Brazil, and the Caribbean, was part of a strategy to expand into the region and into motorsports generally.

International sports broadcaster ESPN will be responsible for providing audiences in the Caribbean with tailored coverage of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro summer Olympic Games, the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (Canoc) has confirmed.

Dorna WSBK, the commercial rights holder of motorcycling’s Superbike World Championship, has agreed a five-year media rights deal with the MP & Silva agency covering all territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, excluding Brazil.

Formula One enjoys big rights fee increase in Latin America deal with Mediapro

Mediapro explains why F1 deal reflects the company’s DNA

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has acquired rights to the inaugural Para-South American Games across eight markets.

Interview with Gerard Romy, managing director of Mediapro, following the company’s Formula One rights deal in Central and South America, and the Caribbean

Spanish agency Mediapro has acquired rights across Central and Latin America and the Caribbean for the Formula One motor-racing world championship.

The IMG Productions division of the IMG agency has renewed a deal to produce coverage of the Caribbean Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament.

Latin American and Caribbean satellite television provider DirecTV PanAmericana has agreed a content partnership with global media company Red Bull Media House.

International Media Content (IMC), the parent company of pay-television broadcaster SportsMax, has acquired rights in the Caribbean for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Organisers of planned Caribbean football league will launch own T V channel in region

Interview with Chris Anderson, chairman and chief executive of the Caribbean Football Trust, a private investment vehicle, about the proposed pan-Caribbean league Major League Futbol.

Caribbean Premier League has big ambitions in the US for the T20 series

The West Indies Cricket Board has made a public appeal for television companies in the region to acquire the broadcast rights for its on-going tour to New Zealand.

Cricket’s Caribbean Premier League has issued an invitation to tender for the domestic and international media rights to the Twenty20 series for three seasons, from 2014 to 2016.