South America

The Federación Boliviana de Fútbol, the Bolivian football federation, is close to a deal to sell the domestic and international media rights for the national team’s home qualifying matches for the 201…

The Pitch International agency has agreed a deal with Confederação Brasilera de Futebol, the Brazilian football confederation, to organise and sell the media and commercial rights for all international f…

The Fox Sports division of US network Fox will launch a pay-television sports channel in Colombia next year, according to the Rapid TV News website

Brazilian pay-television broadcaster Bandsports has renewed a rights deal for the Top 14 French domestic rugby union tournament. The deal will run for two seasons, from 2012-13 to 2013-14

The NBC Sports division of US network NBC said the London 2012 Olympic Games set a new record as the most-watched multi-day event in US television history, while UK public-service broadcaster the BBC reported…

New Conmebol event could become replacement for Copa; Why the US is the perfect host

This week’s BBC deal for the rights to four editions of the Olympic Games has taken the International Olympic Committee to $1.0

Swedish telecommunications company Millicom announced the acquisition of Paraguayan pay-television operator Cablevisión, which owns the rights to Paraguay’s top-tier football league via its sports broadcaster Te…

The Argentinian government has spent about ARS$4 billion (€700 million/$880 million) on its ‘fútbol para todos’ (‘football for everyone’) scheme to show domestic league matches on free-to-air television…

How ESS will become more aggressive under News Corp; Difficult marriage from day one

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN Brazil has renewed its rights deal for the Superbike World Championship motorcycling series, for a further three years, from 2013 to 2015

Sports fans increasingly turn to social networks for content

Colombian football league channel looks expensive to platform operators

Globo bags Ligue 1

Uruguayan state broadcaster Televisión Nacional Uruguay has acquired free-to-air rights to both Euro 2012 and this summer’s Olympic Games in sublicensing deals with the Tenfield agency.

Video sharing website Dailymotion agreed a deal to stream live content from the 2012 Wimbledon tennis championships

Fiba teams up with Leenders and Klooz in 'innovative' move

Champions League value up by 30% in top 5 European markets