Latin America

Brazilian media group Globo has acquired rights to the Brasileirão Feminino A1, the highest level of women’s football in the country, which sees the property return to it after a four-year absence.

South America’s football governing body, Conmebol, has announced it lost out on $43.45m (€36.7m)

The Brazilian Futsal Confederation (CBFS) has agreed a four-year rights deal with Brazilian live streaming company TV NSports

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has reduced its fee for rights to Spain’s LaLiga in Brazil, agreeing a six-season extension at a reduction of about 25 per cent on a per-season basis.

The value of Uefa Champions League rights in Brazil has stayed steady thanks to Turner’s appetite for greater exclusivity and commercial broadcaster SBT’s desire to add more premium rights to its sports portfolio.

Dimayor, Colombian club football’s administrative body, is close to agreeing a settlement to extricate itself from its wide-ranging 11-year international commercial rights deal with the Prudent investment fund.

The Brazilian arm of global sports broadcaster ESPN is set to renew its exclusive rights to the Uefa Europa League

The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) has signed a content partnership with football-based media platform OneFootball

Football streaming platform MyCujoo has renewed a rights agreement with the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) until the end of the year

Brazil’s Council for Administrative Defence (Cade), the competition regulator, has opened an investigation into possible anti-competitive practices in media group Globo’s contracts with the Brazilian Vol…

Mexico’s telecoms regulator, the Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT), has granted a fresh extension for the sale of the Mexican arm of pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports.

Brazilian basic-tier broadcaster TV Walter Abrahão has defaulted on its very first rights payment for rights to South America's Fifa 2022 World Cup qualifying tournament, losing the rights just over a …

Pay-television broadcaster Turner and commercial free-to-air broadcaster SBT are thought to be close to signing off on deals for Uefa Champions League rights in Brazil across the 2021-24 cycle

DeporTV, the free-to-air sports channel owned by the Argentinian government, has acquired broadcast rights to the 2020 Copa Libertadores Femenina, with the women’s club tournament to be held in Argentina t…

LaLiga, the organising body of the top two divisions of Spanish club football, has signed up pay-television broadcaster Sky Sports México as the latest client for its anti-piracy venture, while Belgium’s Pr…

Argentinian club football will return to free-to-air television for the first time since June 2017 after public-service broadcaster TV Pública agreed a sublicensing deal with media group Disney.

Brazilian media group Globo has acquired pay-television rights to electric motor racing’s Formula E, boosting the rights-holder’s exposure in the South American country following a free-to-air deal wit…

The Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) is set to sign a new rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Tigo Sports after the Sports TV Rights agency did not take up an option to extend its agreement