Latin America

Intervention from Grupo Clarín and Torneos helped ensure the joint bid from Fox and Turner won rights to Argentina’s Primera División.

Agency Tenfield is understood to have struck a deal in principle for global rights to Ecuador’s domestic football competitions.

The International Paralympic Committee has hailed record audience figures for its 2016 summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro stating the organisation has benefited from a change in strategy for its rights deals.

The Brazilian Confederation of University Sports (CBDU) has agreed a rights deal with Esporte Interativo under which the pay-television broadcaster will cover the 2017 summer Universiade multi-sport event.

The Argentinian Football Association has selected a joint proposal by US media companies Fox and Turner as the winner in the auction for rights to the domestic Primera División.

Social video production company Grabyo has appointed sports and entertainment executive Mike Kelley as its new president of the Americas to lead a new office in New York that will focus on new projects in North and South America.

Latin American media platform Claro Sports has acquired broadcast rights to two series operated by Fina, the global governing body of aquatic sports.

Mexican media company AYM Sports has entered into a production partnership with the North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation (NORCECA).

Lagardère Sports and Mediapro deals illustrate the inroads international agencies continue to make in the Latin American sports-rights market.

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has acquired non-exclusive rights in Latin America for the 2017 World Baseball Classic national team tournament.

The MP & Silva agency has reached an agreement to continue distributing rights to the Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK) motorcycling series in Latin America and the Caribbean for a further two years.

The Mediapro agency has agreed a production rights deal with the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviana, the top division of club football in Bolivia, under a wide-ranging contract with the championship’s rights-holder, The Game.

The Mediapro agency has emerged as a late entrant into the competition for Argentinian Football Association rights as the auction kicked off yesterday (Monday) with three bidding parties.

Brazil’s Paranaense Football Federation (FPF) has been criticised after it made the late decision to postpone a Campeonato Paranaense state championship game between Atletico Paranaense and Coritiba that was due to be live streamed via social media platforms Facebook and YouTube.

The Uruguayan Football Association has appointed the Mediapro agency as the body’s distribution partner for domestic tournaments and national team matches.

The Lagardère Sports agency has signed a multi-year agreement with Chilean sports television network Canal del Fútbol to market the broadcast rights of domestic football to international territories.