South America

Latin America’s major media groups are competing to take ownership of Chile’s successful football league channel, Canal del Fútbol.

The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) will next week launch a tender process with a view to appointing an agency to assist in the commercialisation of its club and national team competitions.

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN Brasil has struck a three-season extension to its rights deal with the Premier League, the top division of English club football.

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster GolTV has agreed a 10-year deal with the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) to become the new rights-holder of Primera Categoría Serie A and Serie B, the top tiers of the domestic game.

The MP & Silva agency has been appointed as the exclusive global media-rights adviser for the Colombian Baseball League and the Serie Latinoamericana pan-continental competition.

Telecommunications company Telefónica is to add mobile football content to its service offering in Brazil and Chile.

The Argentinian government has reached a deal with US media companies Fox and Turner to subsidise free-to-air coverage of the country’s top-tier Primera División football competition for the first three months of next season.

The Brazilian Confederation of Rugby (CBRu) has agreed a rights deal with sports broadcaster Esporte Interativo.

The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) is set to adopt a new means of broadcasting friendly matches played by its national team after electing not to award the rights to media group Globo.

The International Table Tennis Federation’s 2017 World Championships have commenced in the German city of Düsseldorf, with the global governing body detailing new rights partners in the Americas.

Two of Peru’s major broadcasters have recouped about 15 per cent of their spend on domestic top-tier football rights in a sublicensing deal with Latina

Uruguay’s top two clubs have signed a contract extension with long-term rights-holder Tenfield until 2025, after a two-year holdout.

Brazilian commercial broadcaster RedeTV has agreed a rights deal with the Brazilian Volleyball Confederation (CBV) to cover the friendly games of the men’s and women’s national teams.

Spanish police have today (Tuesday) arrested Sandro Rosell, former president of LaLiga football club Barcelona, in connection to an investigation regarding his business activities in Brazil.

The Tenfield agency has extended rights deals with Uruguayan top-tier football clubs Nacional and Penarol.

North American basketball league the NBA has entered into a content partnership with Brazilian telecommunications company Vivo.