Televisa

Baseball

North America’s Major League Baseball has confirmed renewals of a swathe of rights deals for the new 2016 season.

Boxing

Broadcasters in Mexico, France and Italy have acquired rights for the world welterweight title boxing clash between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, which is scheduled to take place this Saturday night in Las Vegas, US.

Mexico’s telecommunications regulator, the Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT), is considering forcing Televisa and América Movil to share programming covered by existing ‘exclusive’ rights deals after blocking the media companies from striking such agreements in the future.

Mexico could finally be opened up to competition after regulatory intervention

Televisa and América Movil will be prohibited from acquiring exclusive media rights for certain sporting events by the Mexican government’s Federal Telecommunications Institute, which has also ordered the media companies to share their infrastructure with competitors.

Multi-sport

América Móvil enjoys Olympic benefits but the big prize will come in 2016

Fox and ESPN explain why having the Olympic Games non-exclusively makes sense in Latin America

Handball

Televisa Networks, a subsidiary of Mexican media group Grupo Televisa, has acquired media rights to the European Handball Federation’s European Championship national team competition in all Spanish-speaking Latin American countries.

Athletics

Tennis: Pan-European cable and satellite broadcaster Eurosport extended its deal for coverage of the Australian Open for a further four years, from 2008 to 2011. Eurosport will also be the distribution agent for the media rights across Europe. The rights were previously held by the European Broadcasting Union, the umbrella group representing the region’s public-service broadcasters.

Football

Polish television has agreed a deal for football’s 2006 World Cup after months of negotiations with the Infront agency.