The sports TV network Fox Sports Mexico has announced this week that it will not broadcast Mexican football club Santos Laguna’s matches. The news was confirmed this last Monday, July 19th, a few days before the beginning of the Mexican Professional Football League’s (Liga MX) Torneo Apertura 2021. The announcement means the first time a [...]
After, at the end of May, the media conglomerate Grupo Lauman, chaired by businessman Manuel Arroyo, acquired Fox Sports operations in Mexico, Arroyo, CEO of the company, was interviewed by Mexican website ‘Expansion’, where he gave details about the Group’s ideas for Fox’s sports business in the country, which will keep the same name after [...]
Mexican Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) has officially announced this last Thursday that it denied having granted The Walt Disney Company an additional term to sell Fox Sports operations in the country, a necessary requirement to allow the Disney-Fox merger, which took place in March 2019. Taking into account this decision, and according to what [...]
According to the information reported by the Brazilian website UOL, WarnerMedia (AT&T), owner of the TNT Sports channel, intends to negotiate for the Copa Libertadores TV rights in Latin America, for the 2023-2026 period. The news has not been confirmed by any company executive yet. Also, according to UOL, WanerMedia would start negotiations for the [...]
Mexican Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT), telecommunications market regulator in the country, has officially announced last Friday, March 5th, its decision to grant The Walt Disney Company (Disney) and Twenty-First Century Fox (Fox) a new two-month period extension to complete Fox Sports Mexico’s sale. The divestiture of Fox Sports in Mexico is one of the [...]
Amazon has officially confirmed this last Friday, February 5th, that it has launched Fox Sports via OTT through Prime Video Channels, a feature already launched in Mexico and Brazil, which allows Prime Video clients to subscribe to other OTTs offers through Amazon’s SVOD OTT account. Access to Fox Sports content through Prime Video Channels will [...]
The Lauman Group, controller of the Mexican telecommunications company Cotelsat and the newspaper ‘El Financiero’, is also interested in acquiring Fox Sports operations in the country. The sale of Fox’s sports channels in Mexico is one of the requirements ordered by the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) to allow the Disney-Fox merger, which took place in [...]
As reported by several specialized websites in Mexico, the country’s Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) granted a new deadline to The Walt Disney Company for it to sell Fox Sports in Mexico, one of the conditions that the Mexican regulator had ordered when it authorized the Disney-Fox merger, officially concluded in March 2019. At first, [...]
As reported by various specialized websites in Argentina, the Argentine Football Association (AFA), entity in charge of organizing and regulating official football leagues in the country, has officially announced its decision to cancel the agreement that was being ran with Fox Sports for the country’s Professional Football League’s (LPF) TV broadcasting rights, which will officially [...]
As recently reported by several Argentine websites, Matias Lammens, Argentine Tourism and Sports Minister, confirmed the country’s Government is interested in local Professional Football League’s matches to be broadcasted on TV Publica, the State’s FTA TV channel. The initiative takes place days after the Argentine Football Association (AFA) officially confirmed the return of the country’s [...]