Mexico

Mexican football club Chivas Guadalajara plans to offer its in-house OTT platform, Chivas TV, on a global basis after sealing a partnership with streaming services provider Playmaker Media.

Consumer electronics company Samsung has partnered with North America’s Major League Baseball to provide fans with a virtual reality offering for the remainder of the 2017 season.

The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) last month agreed a new deal with Fox Networks Group in Latin America for its club competitions, earning a decent increase.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has begun a complete overhaul of its media rights in Latin America and Mexico, exiting its joint venture with Televisa in favour of a more traditional deal with former partner Fox Sports.

Mexican club Chivas Guadalajara has returned to media group Televisa less than a year after choosing to go it alone with in-house OTT platform Chivas TV.

International sports broadcaster ESPN has launched its ESPNU and SEC Network channels in Mexico through a carriage deal with telecommunications company Totalplay.

Liga MX football team Club Deportivo Guadalajara has struck a new agreement that will see coverage of its home games return to pay-television operator Televisa.

The Mediapro agency has widened the reach of its Canal F1 Latin America channel by agreeing a new carriage deal with Mexican pay-television operator Megacable.

Social media website Facebook has struck a deal to stream selected live matches from US pay-television broadcaster Univision Deportes’ coverage of Liga MX, the domestic Mexican football top tier.

Deals struck last month with Mexican clubs León and Pachuca have strengthened media group Imagen and further weakened the former duopoly over Liga MX rights.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hispanic mixed martial arts promotion Combate Americas has agreed an exclusive, year-long Spanish-language rights deal with commercial broadcaster TV Azteca for the Mexican and US markets.

Mexican Liga MX football club Club Deportivo Guadalajara has signalled its intention to replicate its new domestic model of exploiting its rights in-house by taking the same approach for the US market.