The sports OTT DAZN announced it has acquired the rights to broadcast Libertadores and South American Cup in Spain. The platform is adding more events to broadcast in the European country, where it has already added the Recopa Cup, and it is broadcasting the Copa America matches at present. The Copa América is joined to [...]
The Ecuadorian National Intellectual Rights Services (Senadi) ordered to block five websites belonging to RojaDirecta, a platform focused on broadcasting sporting events, according to what the entity informed in an official statement, where it stated to have found ‘several elements to determine an alleged violation of intellectual property rights, through networks re-broadcastings without the owner’s [...]
The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) and Facebook agreed to extend from 28 to 46 Copa Libertadores matches broadcast for free by the OTT Facebook Watch, in the Spanish-speaking countries that are taking part in the competition. Fox Sports will also air Thursday’s matches, which had been acquired by Facebook. Partnership between the companies establishes [...]
The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) released a statement confirming the agreement validity with Facebook to exclusively broadcast Libertadores Cup’s matches played on Thursdays until 2022. According to Paraguayan newspaper ‘Última Hora’ website, meeting will be held at Conmebol’s headquarters with representatives of Facebook, Fox Sports and Globo, so that both channels could broadcast the [...]
South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) decided to cancel Facebook’s exclusivity to broadcast Libertadores Cup’s matches played on Thursdays. The entity’s decision was based on users complaints regarding broadcasts low quality and connectivity problems throughout the region. Facebook will go on broadcasting the competition’s matches for free through the OTT Facebook Watch, but they will also [...]
Chilean National Economic Prosecutor’s Office (FNE) could decide in the coming days on the sale of Fox Sports in the country. On August 31st, 2018, Disney -represented by lawyer Claudio Lizana, and Fox by lawyer Ignacio Larraín-, provided information to the entity, suggesting that the operation does not represent risks to make free market competition [...]
Conmebol and Facebook ran an agreement in October 2018 to broadcast some Libertadores Cup matches on the social network between 2019 and 2022. According to it, those matches played on Thursdays can be watched in Argentina only through Facebook. Social network’s entrance to sports broadcasts generated a statement from Red Intercable, an independent cable TV [...]
In the OTT Facebook Watch Libertadores Cup broadcastings debut, social network received several complaints about the poor quality of the images. Football match between the Argentine team Huracán and the Brazilian Cruzeiro was the first to be broadcast under this modality. Watchers main complaints were focused on contents poor quality and the constant interruptions during [...]
Economic Defense Administrative Council (CADE) decided to deny Disney the possibility of keeping Fox Sports in Brazil and ordered it to sell it. The entity believes that coexistence between Fox Sports and ESPN would create a monopoly in the country. With Fox Sports sale by Disney, any other media group would be able to acquire [...]
From March, Facebook will broadcast exclusively matches from Libertadores Cup through Facebook Watch, a VOD platform run by Facebook, which arrived at Latin America in August 2018 after being launched in the US a year before. Totally, 27 matches will be broadcasted on the digital platform on Thursdays, and the remaining 19 will do it [...]