South America

FA up in Europe despite weaker rights package and recession

Eurozone crisis not the only challenge facing sports rights agencies in 2012

Argentinian state-owned broadcaster Canal 7 acquired rights for the International Hockey Federation’s women’s Champions Trophy, which will take place in Rosario, Argentina from January 28 to February 5.

Sports pay-television broadcaster ESPN acquired rights in Latin America and the Caribbean to the Brazilian football league, the Campeonato Série A, and the Campeonato Paulista, São Paulo’s state championship, in …

Colombian pay-television broadcasters Telefόnica, Une and Telmex had their latest joint bid to acquire rights for the country’s top football league, Liga Postobon, rejected by the División Mayor del Fút…

Concacaf stuck in neutral as deals wait...Bernie in the driving seat...Fresh joint bid in Colombia...Full steam ahead for Full Play

Football: Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals with pan-European broadcaster Eurosport and US network Fox for rights to the Club World Cup.

Wanted: French home for acquisitive Al Jazeera... Eredivisie Live battling for content... SPL plays safe with Sky and ESPN... Conmebol confirms Full Play deal

Sports and entertainment investment company Evolution Media Capital linked up with private investment company Nala to form Nala EMC, an investment banking and advisory company for the Latin American market

Leading Ecuadorian football clubs vowed to fight “until the end” to prevent the Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol, the country’s football federation, from centralising the sale of league rights from 20…

Esporte Interativo, the Brazilian free-to-air sports broadcaster, acquired rights for the NFL Super Bowl in a two-year deal, covering the 2012 and 2013 matches. The deal was brokered by the IMG agency

Basketball: The MP & Silva agency brokered several deals for the Spanish league, the ACB, beginning this season

Football: Korean IPTV broadcaster Spo TV acquired the rights to the Uefa Champions League and Europa League for the three-year period from 2012-13 to 2014-15 for $11.1m (€8m) (page 2).

FA set for 50% boost...Spo TV ousts incumbents in Korea...Euroleague on the up...Pacquiao ppv numbers...Box Nation gets encryption deal

Brazil deals help Uefa achieve big increase in the Americas

Two-event sales keep Rugby World Cup income growing

Pan American Games: Brazilian commercial broadcaster Record acquired rights for the 2019 Pan American Games in a deal said to be worth more than the $30m (€21.6