South America

Hitachi has agreed a one-year extension to its shirt sponsorship contract with Brazilian top flight football club Ponte Preta.

Grupo Petrópolis has secured a 10-year naming rights deal for 2014 World Cup venue, Recife’s Arena Pernambuco.

Ufa Sports faces a hard battle to hold on to World Championship handball rights

Premiership Rugby: Why it’s the right time to launch an international club sevens tournament

Brazilian free-to-air broadcaster Esporte Interativo has acquired rights for the Campeonato Paraibano, the regional football league in the state of Paraíba, Brazil.

Olympics deal part of Slim plan to expand media empire in Latin America through top sport

World Cup rights fee falls in Nigeria but increases in sub-Saharan Africa as Fifa keeps faith with AUB and Octagon

Broadcasters worried by Pitch and MP & Silva joint venture but rivals say it's business as usual

Aggressive Fox poses threat t Sport1 future in the Netherlands

MP & Silva chief explains why channel plan may work for Asia

ESPN Deportes explains long-term strategy for growing US Spanish-language market

The Dimayor (División Mayor del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano), the body responsible for the top two football divisions in Colombia, has fined second-tier club América de Cali 44.21

IOC carves out five more Asian markets to handle in-house and further weaken ABU rights; Frustrated Barton blasts ABU

Santa Mónica seeks refund for centralised Spain matches

Saran brothers sports-rights ambitions expand beyond Turkey; Perform and IMG take different routes to crack Turkish market; Super Lig deal probed

The Argentinian government has announced the launch of a new free-to-air television channel dedicated to sport. The high-definition channel, DeporTV, is available nationwide

Traffic v Full Play - peace in our time?

Market so bad in Spain that Telecinco expects to make