Latin America

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster GolTV has agreed a two-year deal with the Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF) for rights to the Primera División, the top division of domestic football.

The Fox International Channels broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox is to simulcast coverage of the German Bundesliga football match between Bayern Munich and Hamburg to regions across the world in a move described by the company as a “global first.”

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Latin America has bolstered its coverage of the NFL American football league by acquiring rights to the Thursday Night Football package in Mexico and Central America.

The ESPN International division of sports broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights in Spanish-speaking South America to LaLiga and the Segunda División, the top two divisions of club football in Spain.

The ESPN International division of sports broadcaster ESPN has agreed a five-season extension to its Brazilian rights deal for the top two divisions of Spanish football.

Major League Soccer’s deal with Gol TV Latin America is a stop-gap to ensure coverage in the region for the remainder of the 2014-15 season. The league will seek a longer and more lucrative deal from next season.

The partnership between Concacaf, the governing body of football in the Caribbean, North America and Central America, and the Traffic Sports USA agency, has been curtailed.

The Mediapro agency has agreed a sublicensing deal with Brazilian media company Globo to market international rights to the country’s domestic football tournaments.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN Brasil has agreed a three-year extension to its rights deal for the Superbike World Championship (WSBK) motorcycling series.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Mexico has retained rights to the Euroleague Basketball club tournament in Central and South America and the Caribbean basin.

Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, controlling principals of the Full Play agency, have been placed under house arrest after their request to fight extradition was denied.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN Brasil has acquired rights to Wimbledon, the UK’s grand slam tennis tournament, under a sublicensing deal with the event’s rights-holder in Brazil, pay-television broadcaster Globosat.

Categoría Primera A, the top division of football in Colombia, is set to receive further exposure in the country under a raft of new carriage deals for pay-television channel Win Sports.

Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, who have been accused of corruption in relation to the sale of rights surrounding certain football matches and tournaments in the Americas in their roles as controlling principals of the Full Play agency, handed themselves in to Argentinian authorities on Thursday.

The Uruguayan Football Association’s (AUF) secretary of economic affairs, Ignacio Alonso, has said that it is a “possibility” that the governing body could curtail its contract with the Full Play agency, which has been implicated in the corruption scandal surrounding football’s global governing body Fifa.

Hong Kong telecommunications company PCCW has acquired exclusive rights for the Copa América national team football tournament in Chile.