Latin America

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A football club Internacional has elected to return its broadcast rights to Globo after signing a four-season deal with the media company.

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN Brasil has extended its rights deal with the International Premier Tennis League.

The Rushmans consultancy has agreed a deal to market the broadcast rights and advertising inventory for next month’s national team football friendly between Cuba and the United States.

Olympic Broadcasting Services, the host broadcaster organisation for all Olympic Games, has been hit by a Brazilian court ruling accusing it of breaching labour laws during the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The director of the Argentinian government’s Football for All (FPT) initiative, which ensures free-to-air coverage of domestic football competitions, has stepped down amid the impending scrapping of the scheme.

RTVC, the commercial enterprise of audiovisual content in Cuba, has agreed a landmark sports rights partnership with the Rushmans consultancy.

The Mediapro agency has extended the reach of its Canal F1 Latin America channel by agreeing two new carriage deals in Argentina.

Brazilian pay-television channel SporTV and media company Globo have extended their rights deals with domestic motor racing championship Stock Car.

The International Olympic Committee’s newly-launched Olympic Channel will cover this year’s Paralympic Games, which got underway in Rio de Janeiro yesterday (Wednesday).

The International Paralympic Committee is anticipating a cumulative global audience of four billion people for the Rio 2016 summer Paralympic Games, which get underway in the Brazilian city tomorrow (Wednesday).

Brazilian sports broadcaster Esporte Interativo has secured a carriage deal with pay-television operator Sky.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Latin America has extended a rights deal for the NFL American football league.

The Sport 24 in-flight and in-ship channel has secured a carriage deal with Mexican airline Aeromexico.

Sports broadcaster ESPN International has acquired rights for Mexico’s two leading annual tennis events in the tournaments’ home market, as well as across Central America and the Caribbean.

Premiership Rugby, the organising body for the top division of club rugby union in England, has agreed television rights deals with operators in Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean.

The International Olympic Committee has struck a partnership with Facebook that will allow users of the social media website’s Facebook Messenger service to interact with a ‘bot’ about live updates and highlights from the Olympic Games in Rio, according to the Mashable digital news service.