Mexico

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mexican Liga MX football club Club Deportivo Guadalajara has confirmed it will form its own broadcast platform after electing to end its long-running rights partnership with pay-television operator Televisa.

Mexican media company Televisa has acquired rights for the NBA North American basketball league.

Mexican pay-television operator Televisa has extended a rights deal for North America’s Major League Baseball for three years, from 2016 to 2018.