South America

The Mediapro agency has agreed a sublicensing deal with Brazilian media company Globo to market international rights to the country’s domestic football tournaments.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN Brasil has agreed a three-year extension to its rights deal for the Superbike World Championship (WSBK) motorcycling series.

Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, controlling principals of the Full Play agency, have been placed under house arrest after their request to fight extradition was denied.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN Brasil has acquired rights to Wimbledon, the UK’s grand slam tennis tournament, under a sublicensing deal with the event’s rights-holder in Brazil, pay-television broadcaster Globosat.

Categoría Primera A, the top division of football in Colombia, is set to receive further exposure in the country under a raft of new carriage deals for pay-television channel Win Sports.

The Uruguayan Football Association’s (AUF) secretary of economic affairs, Ignacio Alonso, has said that it is a “possibility” that the governing body could curtail its contract with the Full Play agency, which has been implicated in the corruption scandal surrounding football’s global governing body Fifa.

Hong Kong telecommunications company PCCW has acquired exclusive rights for the Copa América national team football tournament in Chile.

ESPN has renewed a sublicensing deal with rival international pay-television sports broadcaster Fox Sports Latin America to acquire rights for the Bundesliga top division of German football across Latin America and certain territories in the Caribbean.

Brazilian pay-television channel Sports Plus is set to close by the end of the year, according to multiple reports.

Uruguayan commercial broadcasters Teledoce, Saeta TV and Monte Carlo TV have acquired rights to the 2015 Copa America national team football tournament, according to multiple media reports in the country.

The Chilean Football Association (ANFP) is seeking to secure outright ownership of Canal del Fútbol, the broadcaster which holds exclusive rights to domestic football in the country, according to multiple Chilean media reports.

The Argentinian Football Association (AFA) has assumed control of marketing global rights to the domestic Primera Division under the government’s ‘Football for All’ scheme, according to La Nacion.

Argentinian state broadcaster TV Publica has agreed a deal to televise the highly-anticipated Copa Libertadores clash between domestic football clubs Boca Juniors and River Plate, while it has also acquired rights to Saturday’s world welterweight title boxing bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.

The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) has awarded rights in Australia and Brazil for the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, England.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) expects the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to break all broadcast viewing records and exceed a cumulative global audience of four billion people for the first time.

Major League Soccer will enjoy a substantial increase in exposure in Brazil in the 2015 season, which got under way at the end of March.