South America

The Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) is looking to establish an in-house channel to carry domestic league matches after deciding against launching a traditional media rights tender

France's Professional Football League (LFP) has opted for a digital-first strategy across Latin America, signing a three-season media rights deal with Mexico-based streamer Caliente TV

CazéTV has made the Uefa Women’s Euro 2025 its latest acquisition after exclusivity for 25 matches at Euro 2024 delivered strong engagement across multiple platforms in Brazil.

The National Football League's decision to take a regular-season game to Brazil for the first time has resulted in a new media deal in the country targeting a younger audience, the streaming platform CazéTV.

France’s Ligue 1 will have a new broadcaster in Brazil next season after fast-growing streamer CazéTV acquired rights in an exclusive three-year deal.

DAZN will distribute Tennis TV, ATP Media’s direct-to-consumer service, across Latin America, Brazil and the Caribbean in its latest move in the third-party channels business.

The Ecuadorian Pro League has moved quickly to land a new domestic broadcasting partner after terminating its agreement with pay-television's GolTV, striking an exclusive deal with telecoms operator Xtrim

Brazilian football giants Corinthians is said to be closing in on an agreement to join the Liga Forte União (LFU) collective, in what would represent a major financial blow to the rival Libra body.

The Ecuadorian Pro League has said it is focused on securing a new domestic broadcaster when Serie A gets back under way in August, as a war of words escalates with its former media rights partner GolTV

GolTV's 10-year domestic rights deal for Ecuador’s top-tier two leagues has been ripped up with four years still to run after the pay-television broadcaster failed to meet payment deadlines.

Infront has begun selling international broadcast and betting rights to the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A after striking one-year deals with the Liga Forte Uniao (LFU) and Libra blocs of clubs, SportBusiness understands.

GolTV, the pay-television broadcaster that holds domestic rights to Ecuador’s top-tier Serie A, has been given 15 days to pay clubs what they are owed, or facing losing the lucrative contract.

Globo’s renegotiated deal for rights to the 2026 Fifa World Cup has given Fifa hope of extracting even more from Brazil than it otherwise would have done, as its sales agent LiveMode prepares to take an additional premium package of rights to the market.

The dream of a unified, centralised Brasileirão will have to wait until 2030 at the earliest as years of public pettiness between clubs, meetings about meetings and arguments over small amounts of money have resulted in another resounding victory for Brazil’s biggest media group, Globo.

A national backlash against a government move to take matches of the Argentinian national football team off state television has prompted sub-licensing negotiations between broadcast executives.

Televisión Federal (Telefe), the Argentinian television station owned by Paramount Global, has acquired rights to matches of the men's national football team after the country's radical leader, Javier Milei, put an end to the use of public funds.

LiveMode has taken on strategic investment from US growth equity firm General Atlantic and Brazilian financial services company XP Investimentos, backers of one of two groups bidding to control commercial operations in Brazilian football.

The Brasileirão Série B 2024 kicked off with all matches shown live over the weekend, after a late completion of the broadcast picture in the country.