Fox Sports Acquires Latin America Formula One Rights

Fox Sports has agreed a deal with Spanish multimedia communications company Mediapro for the rights to broadcast Formula One Latin America.

Fox has agreed a joint broadcast of 10 live races per season.

The five-year deal will run from 2015 to 2019.

It will include the launch of a new channel that’ll be broadcast throughout Latin America, therapy apart from Brazil.

Mediapro has confirmed the channel will be broadcast on a 24-hour basis and will be produced with television provider DirecTV.

The channel will also offer live coverage of all F1 races as well as qualifying and practice sessions. 10 of the races will be exclusive to the platform.