South America

Football

Media giant Disney has agreed to pay a sizeable one-off fee to secure a three-season extension to its domestic broadcast rights to Argentina’s Liga Profesional de Fútbol (LPF), following a legal spat that had threatened to end its relationship with the league.
Football

Broadcasters in Australia and New Zealand have been asked to lodge their first-round bids for Uefa Champions League rights by the middle of next month following the launch of the sales process by the Team…
Football

Brazilian media group Globo is reported to have arranged to meet a delegation from world football’s governing body Fifa to clear the air between the two parties after their relationship has become strained i…
Football

The Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) has announced that telco Telecel submitted the highest bid in the most recent tender for media rights to Bolivian club football, bidding over $12m (€9.9m) per season.
Football

Broadcast rights to the Uefa Champions League, Europa League and new third-tier Europa Conference League are poised to hit the market in Brazil, it has been reported
Football

Athletico Paranaense have become the first Brazilian football club to show a live Série A match on Twitch, as the club used the platform to broadcast its home fixture against Vasco Da Gama via pay per …
Football

Sports TV Rights' four-year deal for exclusive rights to domestic Bolivian football, from 2021 to 2024, was annulled at the Bolivian Football Federation's (FBF) extraordinary congress on December 29, leaving…
Football
Media

Torneos, the Argentinian rights agency, and Global Sports Rights Management, the agency that holds international broadcast rights to the top two Brazilian football leagues, have formed an alliance to commercialise…
Football

TC Televisión, the state-owned broadcaster in Ecuador, has submitted a bid for rights to the final of the country’s top-tier Serie A league.
Basketball

Media group Globo has extended its deal for pay-television rights in Brazil to North American basketball’s NBA.
Football

Brazilian media group Globo and pay-television broadcaster Turner have drawn a line under their legal dispute which had been sparked by the introduction of a controversial media rights measure
Basketball

Brazilian commercial broadcaster Bandeirantes has agreed a multi-year extension to its free-to-air rights deal with the NBA, as the North American basketball league’s 2020-21 season prepares to tip off.
Multi-sport

Panam Sports, organiser of the Pan American Games, is taking legal action against Record after the Brazilian free-to-air broadcaster cancelled a rights agreement for the 2023 edition of the multi-sport…
Football

Brazilian commercial broadcaster Bandeirantes has passed up on the opportunity to acquire rights to the Copa América international football tournament, deeming the Dentsu agency’s asking price as too hi…
Motorsport

Commercial free-to-air broadcaster SBT and the Disney media group are set to put in a combined bid for rights to Formula One from 2021 in Brazil, following the recent breakdown of the Rio Motorsports proposal
Basketball

Brazilian commercial broadcaster Bandeirantes is thought to be close to agreeing a renewal for free-to-air rights to North American basketball’s NBA.
Football

The Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) has forwarded media rights fees to clubs in the Bolivian Professional Football League for the first time since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, indicating…
Football

Potential US buyers baulked at the asking price for media rights to Conmebol’s 2022 Fifa World Cup qualifiers, exposing several members of the seven-strong selling consortium to significant losses on their investments.