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Infront Secures 2006 World Cup New Media Deal
Los Angeles, CA -- FIFA’s agent Infront confirmed the company is licensing the Spanish-language internet and mobile telephony rights in the US to all 64 matches in the tournament, as well as archive access to 2002 World Cup content.
Univision, which is already a FIFA World Cup TV rights holder, will exploit the internet rights on the Univision website and mobile telephony rights with one major US mobile operator who is yet to be identified.
The International Sports Events Company is also licensing internet and mobile telephony rights to all 64 matches and archive access to 2002 FIFA World Cup matches for the territories of the Middle East and North Africa.
It also intends to sub-license its new media rights for all markets covered by the deal.
Internet and mobile telephony rights will enable the transmission of a limited number of video clips of key footage over the internet and via mobile networks to mobile phones, geo-blocked for user access only within each territory.
Univision Communications, the Spanish-language media company serving the US, has signed a new deal for mobile rights to the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
Univision Communications Inc. is the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States. Its operations include Univision Network, the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the U.S. reaching 98% of U.S. Hispanic Households; TeleFutura Network, a general-interest Spanish-language broadcast television network, which was launched in 2002 and now reaches 86% of U.S. Hispanic Households; Galavisión, the country’s leading Spanish-language cable network; Univision Television Group, which owns and operates 63 television stations in major U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico; Univision Radio, the leading Spanish-language radio group which owns and/or operates 66 radio stations in 16 of the top 25 U.S. Hispanic markets and 4 stations in Puerto Rico; Univision Music Group, which includes Univision Records, Fonovisa Records, and a 50% interest in Mexico-based Disa Records labels as well as Fonomusic and America Musical Publishing companies; and Univision Online, the premier Spanish-language Internet destination in the U.S. located at www.univision.com. Univision Communications also has a 50% interest in TuTv, a joint venture formed to broadcast Televisa’s pay television channels in the U.S., and a non-voting 27% interest in Entravision Communications Corporation, a public Spanish-language media company. Univision Communications is headquartered in Los Angeles with television network operations in Miami and television and radio stations and sales offices in major cities throughout the United States.
For more information, please visit www.univision.net.
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