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The centenary version of the Copa América, which will take place in the US in June 2016, looks likely to earn at least twice as much in media rights income as the 2015 Copa América.

The International Olympic Committee has robustly defended last week’s long-term deal with US media group NBCUniversal on the three key areas in which it has come under scrutiny.

The MP & Silva agency said that its deal earlier this month for the FIM Superbike World Championship in Latin America, excluding Brazil, and the Caribbean, was part of a strategy to expand into the region and into motorsports generally.

The top US football league, Major League Soccer, and the country’s national football association, US Soccer, enjoyed a five-fold increase in the value of their domestic media rights at the end of a long and complex set of negotiations with broadcasters ESPN, Fox and Univision Deportes.

Interview with Gerard Romy, managing director of Mediapro, following the company’s Formula One rights deal in Central and South America, and the Caribbean

Mexico could finally be opened up to competition after regulatory intervention

The Indian arm of telecommunications company Vodafone has agreed a strategic partnership with the Star India broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox to form a Vodafone Sports portal that will include live sports video content.

US network Fox said that its coverage of the Super Bowl NFL American football championship game on Sunday attracted an average of 111.5 million viewers to set a new all-time audience record for a television programme in the country.

The Star India broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has acquired digital distribution rights for the 2014 season of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament from Times Internet, the digital arm of the Times of India media group.

The Star India broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has signed an eight-year strategic partnership with the International Hockey Federation (FIH) in a deal running from January 2015 to December 2022.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN and the Fox and CBS networks have submitted bids for the rights to show as many as eight Thursday night NFL American football games, according to the Reuters news agency.

American football’s NFL has invited broadcasters to bid for a new package of rights comprising Thursday night games.

Murdoch pays Champions League premium in US and Germany

Broadcasters around the world have very different views on winter World Cup

Fox loses more sport to the networks in Australia

Ten picks up Champions League T20 rights for a song

CAA Eleven gets off to a good start with sales of the European Qualifiers but still has uphill battle to hit Uefa targets