Latin America

Football

Costa Rican Primera Divisíon side CS Cartaginés has ended its contract with FUTV, the football-focused pay-television broadcaster which launched in the Central American country just under a year ago.
Football

Marron Media, the Australia-based sports media agency co-founded by former International Cricket Council media rights manager Lara Richards, has struck a five-year deal to distribute live rights to Nicaraguan…
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Brasil has acquired pay-per-view rights to the knockout Copa do Nordeste tournament in Brazil
Football

Media giant Disney has agreed to pay a sizeable one-off fee to secure a three-season extension to its domestic broadcast rights to Argentina’s Liga Profesional de Fútbol (LPF), following a legal spat that had threatened to end its relationship with the league.
Football

Broadcasters in Australia and New Zealand have been asked to lodge their first-round bids for Uefa Champions League rights by the middle of next month following the launch of the sales process by the Team…
Football

Brazilian media group Globo is reported to have arranged to meet a delegation from world football’s governing body Fifa to clear the air between the two parties after their relationship has become strained i…
Football

The Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) has announced that telco Telecel submitted the highest bid in the most recent tender for media rights to Bolivian club football, bidding over $12m (€9.9m) per season.
Basketball

Euroleague Basketball has agreed a renewal with pay-television broadcaster DirecTV Latin America that guarantees continued coverage of the EuroLeague competition in South America and the Caribbean
Football

Broadcast rights to the Uefa Champions League, Europa League and new third-tier Europa Conference League are poised to hit the market in Brazil, it has been reported
Football

The Walt Disney Company is being sued by Mexican Liga MX club Santos Laguna over allegations of contractual violation as a by-product of Disney’s 21st Century Fox acquisition in 2019.
Football

Athletico Paranaense have become the first Brazilian football club to show a live Série A match on Twitch, as the club used the platform to broadcast its home fixture against Vasco Da Gama via pay per …
Football

Sports TV Rights' four-year deal for exclusive rights to domestic Bolivian football, from 2021 to 2024, was annulled at the Bolivian Football Federation's (FBF) extraordinary congress on December 29, leaving…
Football
Media

Torneos, the Argentinian rights agency, and Global Sports Rights Management, the agency that holds international broadcast rights to the top two Brazilian football leagues, have formed an alliance to commercialise…
Football

TC Televisión, the state-owned broadcaster in Ecuador, has submitted a bid for rights to the final of the country’s top-tier Serie A league.
Basketball

Media group Globo has extended its deal for pay-television rights in Brazil to North American basketball’s NBA.
Football

Brazilian media group Globo and pay-television broadcaster Turner have drawn a line under their legal dispute which had been sparked by the introduction of a controversial media rights measure
Basketball

Brazilian commercial broadcaster Bandeirantes has agreed a multi-year extension to its free-to-air rights deal with the NBA, as the North American basketball league’s 2020-21 season prepares to tip off.
Multi-sport

Panam Sports, organiser of the Pan American Games, is taking legal action against Record after the Brazilian free-to-air broadcaster cancelled a rights agreement for the 2023 edition of the multi-sport…