Latin America

Baseball

Major League Baseball has signed a content partnership with Hispanic-focused digital network Mitú which is designed to target the Latino youth market.
Football

The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) has moved to make the broadcast rights to the forthcoming friendly game between Brazil and Colombia, which is designed to benefit Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A club Chapecoense, freely available on a global basis.
Football

The Fox Sports Argentina division of international sports broadcaster Fox Sports has stated its interest in bidding for rights to the top two divisions of Ecuadorian football after claiming it was initially left out of the tender process opened by the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF).
Football

International sports broadcaster ESPN has lowered its offer for rights to Argentina’s Primera División, the top tier of football in the country, according to La Nacion.
Multi-sport

Latin American media platform Claro Sports has joined forces with Spanish sports media group Marca in a venture that aims to create the “benchmark” for digital sports coverage in Latin America.
Football

Mexican Liga MX football clubs León and Pachuca have agreed two-year rights deals with media conglomerate Grupo Imagen through which their games will be broadcast on new free-to-air channel Imagen Television.
Football

The Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) has moved to play down reports that the Tenfield agency has agreed a deal for rights to the top two divisions of domestic football, stating a number of parties are currently in talks.
Multi-sport

The US Federal Communications Commission has granted approval for increased foreign investment in Univision in a move that is set to allow Mexican media company Televisa to raise its stake in the Spanish-language broadcaster.
Football

Clubs in Argentina’s Primera División, the top tier of football in the country, have claimed they are in a “dramatic” situation over alleged non-payment of broadcast rights revenue by the Argentinian Football Association.
Football

Chivas TV, the in-house streaming platform of Liga MX football team Club Deportivo Guadalajara, has moved to broaden its reach in Mexico by striking a commercial partnership with OTT service Claro Video.
Football

Marcelo Tinelli, vice-president of Argentinian Primera División club San Lorenzo, has said an “excellent meeting” has been held with international sports broadcaster ESPN and Spanish agency Mediapro over the next set of rights to club football in the country.
Football

Brazilian media company Globo has renewed a rights deal for the Copa do Brasil domestic knockout football competition.
Football

Reigning Brazilian champion Palmeiras has brought the battle over Série A club’s pay-television rights to an end by agreeing a deal with Esporte Interativo from 2019.

Football

Tenfield has said it is prepared to discuss a termination of its rights partnership with the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) after rival agency Euromericas Sports Marketing made a “unique and unrepeatable” offer for the rights to domestic football in the country.
Football

Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A football club Palmeiras has confirmed that it has awarded its pay-television rights to Esporte Interativo under a six-year deal that will run from 2019 to 2024.
Football

The Torneos y Competencias agency has agreed a deal with US prosecutors to pay $112.8m (€106m) to settle charges in relation to a football corruption probe.
Football

Clubs in Argentina’s Primera División, the top tier of football in the country, have put forward a counterproposal to US media companies Fox and Turner for the future media rights to the competition.
Football

Mexican regulator the Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor (Profeco) has hit Chivas TV, the in-house streaming platform of Liga MX football club Club Deportivo Guadalajara, with a fine of 5.68 million pesos (€258,000/$273,000) for failures relating to the service.