South America

The Argentinian government has confirmed that its Football for All (FPT) scheme, which ensures free-to-air coverage of domestic football competitions, will be scrapped at the end of this year.

Brazilian commercial broadcaster RedeTV has expanded a rights deal for the country’s Superliga top-tier volleyball competition.

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A football club Internacional has elected to return its broadcast rights to Globo after signing a four-season deal with the media company.

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN Brasil has extended its rights deal with the International Premier Tennis League.

Olympic Broadcasting Services, the host broadcaster organisation for all Olympic Games, has been hit by a Brazilian court ruling accusing it of breaching labour laws during the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The director of the Argentinian government’s Football for All (FPT) initiative, which ensures free-to-air coverage of domestic football competitions, has stepped down amid the impending scrapping of the scheme.

The Mediapro agency has extended the reach of its Canal F1 Latin America channel by agreeing two new carriage deals in Argentina.

Brazilian pay-television channel SporTV and media company Globo have extended their rights deals with domestic motor racing championship Stock Car.

The International Olympic Committee’s newly-launched Olympic Channel will cover this year’s Paralympic Games, which got underway in Rio de Janeiro yesterday (Wednesday).

The International Paralympic Committee is anticipating a cumulative global audience of four billion people for the Rio 2016 summer Paralympic Games, which get underway in the Brazilian city tomorrow (Wednesday).

Brazilian sports broadcaster Esporte Interativo has secured a carriage deal with pay-television operator Sky.

The International Olympic Committee has struck a partnership with Facebook that will allow users of the social media website’s Facebook Messenger service to interact with a ‘bot’ about live updates and highlights from the Olympic Games in Rio, according to the Mashable digital news service.

Brazilian media company Globo has partnered with social media platform Snapchat to enhance its coverage of the forthcoming summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Pay-television sports broadcaster ESPN Brasil has confirmed it will not sublicense English Premier League rights in the 2016-17 campaign, instead providing full coverage of the club football competition for the first time in the country.

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri has confirmed that the government’s Football for All (FPT) scheme, which ensures free-to-air coverage of domestic football competitions, will be “discontinued”.

Argentina’s Primera Division football clubs have requested that the government’s Football for All (FPT) scheme, which ensures free-to-air coverage of domestic football competitions, is disbanded at the end of the year.