South America

The Full Play agency has acquired media rights in Bolivia for the 2018 Fifa World Cup national team tournament in a sublicensing deal with the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF).

State-owned telecommunications company Copaco has acquired rights for the Paraguayan national football championship and immediately sublicensed on rights to rival telco Tigo.

North American basketball league the NBA has signed a multi-year digital partnership with Argentinian daily sports newspaper Olé to offer fans in the country access to online video content.

Fifa, football’s world governing body, and Japanese electronics company Sony have extended their range of 4K broadcast initiatives for the 2014 World Cup national team tournament.

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has acquired rights to the inaugural Para-South American Games across eight markets.

The Brazilian National Basketball League (LNB) will provide free live streaming of three games next week as part of an initiative to increase exposure for the sport in the country.

Brazilian media group Globo will broadcast the Sochi 2014 Paralympic winter Games after reaching an agreement with the International Paralympic Committee and the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB).

Argentinian pay-television broadcaster TyC Sports is set to become part of a new independent company after media conglomerate Grupo Clarin was permitted to break up its operations rather than face a forced dismantling to comply with a new media ownership law.

The MP & Silva agency has extended a deal to distribute worldwide media rights for the men’s ATP World Tour tennis tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Fox International Channels (FIC) Latin America broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has announced the launch of Fox Sports 2 in Brazil, its second pay-television sports channel in the country.

The Fox International Channels (FIC) broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox is to launch local versions of pay-television channel Fox Sports in Colombia and Uruguay.

The Argentinian government has acquired free-to-air media rights for the 2014 Fifa World Cup national football team tournament in Brazil.

Conmebol, football’s governing body in South America, has said that the clubs participating in the 2014 Copa Libertadores knockout competition will receive 95% of the media rights income from the tournament.

Paraguayan free-to-air broadcaster Telefuturo has acquired media rights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts series.

EBU deal with US ski federation will increase exposure for ski events in the country

The Figer and Kentaro agencies have appointed Jose de Lorenzo Messina as managing director of their Brazilian joint venture, Kentaro Figer.