Latin America

Spanish agency Mediapro has acquired rights across Central and Latin America and the Caribbean for the Formula One motor-racing world championship.

Mexican cinema chain Cinepolis has acquired rights for 30 matches during football's 2014 Fifa World Cup national team tournament in a sublicensing deal with media company Grupo Televisa.

The Brazilian National Basketball League (LNB) will provide free live streaming of three games next week as part of an initiative to increase exposure for the sport in the country.

Mexico could finally be opened up to competition after regulatory intervention

Televisa and América Movil will be prohibited from acquiring exclusive media rights for certain sporting events by the Mexican government’s Federal Telecommunications Institute, which has also ordered the media companies to share their infrastructure with competitors.

Brazilian media group Globo will broadcast the Sochi 2014 Paralympic winter Games after reaching an agreement with the International Paralympic Committee and the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB).

Eurosport deal helps international table tennis federation in push beyond Asian heartland

Latin American and Caribbean satellite television provider DirecTV PanAmericana has agreed a content partnership with global media company Red Bull Media House.

Argentinian pay-television broadcaster TyC Sports is set to become part of a new independent company after media conglomerate Grupo Clarin was permitted to break up its operations rather than face a forced dismantling to comply with a new media ownership law.

América Móvil enjoys Olympic benefits but the big prize will come in 2016

Fox and ESPN explain why having the Olympic Games non-exclusively makes sense in Latin America

The MP & Silva agency has extended a deal to distribute worldwide media rights for the men’s ATP World Tour tennis tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has secured a rights deal covering Latin America for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia and the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights across Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia and the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has acquired rights in Latin America for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia and the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The Fox International Channels (FIC) Latin America broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has announced the launch of Fox Sports 2 in Brazil, its second pay-television sports channel in the country.

The CSM Sport & Entertainment division of marketing agency Chime Communications has formed a new company, Sportseen, and has agreed a partnership with the Pitch International rights agency to develop the venture.