Latin America

North America’s Major League Soccer has brokered a deal for Cuban state broadcaster Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión to broadcast its All-Star Game, along with a forthcoming men’s national team friendly match between Cuba and the United States.

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri has confirmed that the government’s Football for All (FPT) scheme, which ensures free-to-air coverage of domestic football competitions, will be “discontinued”.

Argentina’s Primera Division football clubs have requested that the government’s Football for All (FPT) scheme, which ensures free-to-air coverage of domestic football competitions, is disbanded at the end of the year.

The Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees has finalised rights deals in Belize for the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Organisers of Brazilian club football tournament the Primeira Liga are set to explore a tender process for the broadcast rights to the second edition of the competition, which will expand in 2017.

Brazilian pay-television operators Claro TV and Net have teamed up to deliver the opening ceremony of the 2016 summer Olympic Games in 4K ultra-high definition.

Tour de France organiser Amaury Sport Organisation has said the 2016 edition of the cycling race will have new broadcast partners as it prepares to commence tomorrow (Saturday).

Mexican Liga MX football club Club Deportivo Guadalajara has unveiled the in-house streaming platform that will exploit the rights to all its home games from the 2016 Apertura campaign.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN International has agreed a four-season extension to its rights deal with the NFL American football league in Spanish-speaking Latin America.

Argentinian Football Association president Luis Segura and three former presidential cabinet chiefs have been indicted in an investigation into the sale of the country’s domestic media rights.

Mexican Liga MX football club Club Deportivo Guadalajara will launch its new broadcast platform on July 1 after electing to end its long-running rights partnership with pay-television operator Televisa.

The MP & Silva agency has sealed a deal with media company Globo to distribute rights across Latin America for Brazil’s top domestic football properties.

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Bandsports has acquired rights to Categoría Primera A, the top division of Colombian club football.

The Argentinian government has suspended a sales process for national and international media rights.

The Copa América Centenario will receive free-to-air exposure in Ecuador after state-owned broadcaster Gama TV sealed a late rights deal for the national team football tournament.

Bolivian state broadcaster Bolivia TV has acquired rights to the Copa América Centenario ahead of its national team’s opening game in the football tournament on June 6.