As reported in the web version of the Mexican newspaper ‘El Universal’ this last Monday, March 1st, the Spanish company Mediapro would get out of the contest to acquire Fox Sports operations in Mexico, one of the requirements ordered by the Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) to approve the Disney-Fox merger, which took place in [...]
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, [...]
‘Los Internacionales’, a new Viacom International Studios (VIS), Olympusat, The Mediapro Studio and Flow co-production, will be released next Thursday, May 20th in Argentina through the FTA TV channel Telefe, and, on the next day, Thursday 21st, it will be fully available through the Flow platform, to be watched on demand. In addition, an official [...]
With the beginning of the 2020 Professional Football season in Paraguay, Mediapro began the implementation of the VAR technology (Video Assistant Referee), in charge of the company for the 2020, 2021 and 2022 seasons of the competition. The tournament includes 280 football matches, which are distributed on six fixture dates per weekend (two on Fridays, [...]
Conmebol has ran a new partnership agreement with Stats Perform, the revolutionary leader in sports AI and data, as its official data provider. The four-year deal will see Stats Perform exclusively collect and manage data from the most important competitions in Latin America, including Copa Conmebol America, Conmebol Libertadores, Conmebol Sudamericana and Conmebol Recopa. Through [...]
With two offers from Telefonica (Movistar) and Ecuadorian Servisky, who owns the Ecuadorian Football Channel, the deadline that the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) had set for the aspiring companies to bid for the broadcasting rights of the nine matches that the Uruguayan National Team will play as local during the Qualifiers for the next World [...]
The Paraguay Cup Final, which will face the Guaraní and Libertad football teams tomorrow at the Defensores del Chaco Stadium (Asuncion), will become the first Paraguayan football match where Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology is incorporated. Although the arrival of the VAR to Paraguay was stipulated by 2020, the Paraguayan Football Association (APF) decided to [...]
As reported by UOL through the journalist Ricardo Feltrin, the Spanish company Mediapro made a formal offer to buy Fox Sports in Brazil, which belongs to The Walt Disney Company. The transaction’s value has not been reported up to now, but, according to the journalist, ‘the market estimates that Fox Sports channels (in Brazil) are [...]
Mediapro has been selected as a host broadcaster to produce and distribute the coming Copa Libertadores Final TV broadcast, which will be held this Saturday, November 23rd at the Estadio Monumental, in Lima, Peru. The final will be disputed between Flamengo (Brazil) and River Plate (Argentina). 33 cameras will be used for the event’s coverage, [...]