List of Campeonato Brasileiro Série A broadcasters

This is a list of television broadcasters which provide coverage of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Brazilian football's top level competition.

Country	Broadcaster
Brazil	Premiere FC Rede Globo Rede Bandeirantes SporTV Fox Sports
Portugal	SportTV
Argentina	ESPN Latin America
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Honduras
Guatemala
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Canada	GolTV
United States	GOL TV ESPN Deportes
Albania	SuperSport Albania
Belgium	Sporting Telenet
France	Canal+
Germany	Sportdigital.tv
Greece	Nova Sports
Hungary	Digi Sport
Italy	Rai Sport Sportitalia
Netherlands	Sport1
Norway	TV 2 Sport
Poland	Arenasport
Romania
Serbia
Spain	Canal+ Fútbol
Turkey	Lig TV
United Kingdom	BT Sport
Ireland
Algeria	Al Jazeera Sports
Bahrain
Egypt
Iran
Iraq
Palestine
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Morocco
Oman
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
Chad
Qatar
	Al Dowaly Center
India	Ten Sports
China	Guangdong Television
Japan	TV Tokyo
Philippines	ABS-CBN
Singapore	Starhub Media
Nigeria	Super Sport
South Africa

History

• In 1987

With only conveying the Green Module of the Copa União, organized by the Clube dos 13, the television rights were sold for $ 3.4 million Rede Globo.^[1][2] And only with the conveying of the championship final, the SBT broadcast the game, a blow to the Rede Globo, who says today that the Green Module would be the league itself, and then was prevented from entering the Ilha do Retiro.^[3][4][5]

• In 1989

Besides the Rede Globo, also attended the Rede Bandeirantes and Rede Manchete. [Citation needed]

• In 1990

Just Rede Bandeirantes acquired the broadcast rights to the next issue. [Citation needed]

• In 1994

The contract was negotiated for $ 6 million.

• In 1995

League broadcasting rights was traded for $ 10.4 million.

• In 1996

A new contract was signed for $ 15 million.

• In 1997

Began to be restricted games live in cities where the matches are held (except finals). The Clube dos 13 closed the contract with Globo television rights as the holder of the Brasileirão for $ 50 million (including editions of 1998 and 1999), and resolves itself split the rights with the Band during this period. It was the first edition to be shown on pay-per-view.

• In 2000

Just Globo broadcast Copa João Havelange was negotiated for $ 50 million.

• In 2001

The Clube dos 13 defines four divisions quota transmission. Group 1: Corinthians, São Paulo, Palmeiras, Flamengo and Vasco, Group 2: Santos, Group 3: Fluminense, Botafogo, Atlético Mineiro, Cruzeiro, Internacional and Grêmio; Group 4: Bahia, Goiás, Sport, Portuguesa, Coritiba, Atlético Paranaense, Bahia and Vitória.

• In 2002

Globo back to resell the direiros transmission to another station. This time it was the Rede Record to broadcast the 2006 edition

• In 2003

It expanded the TV contract to $ 130 million per year in the first issue disputed by points accrued.

• In 2004

The championship shall be accompanied by 120 countries.

• In 2005

The C13 renews with Globo for the triennium 2005-2008 by $ 300 million per year.

• In 2007

After teaming up with TV Record, Band returns to transmit up to 2010 edition

• In 2009

For the first time, the rights were open bidding for the sale of broadcasting rights of the Brazilian Championship. All the media were invited to bid for TV packages open, closed, PPV, internet and broadcast abroad. The Globe has signed the largest TV contract in history of Brazilian football for $ 1.4 billion in the editions of 2009, 2010 and 2011. [Citation needed]

• In 2011

On February 23, 2011, Corinthians required his disaffiliation of the Clube dos 13 for not agreeing with the way in which the entity was negotiating the rights to broadcast the League for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 with various media communication stakeholders.^[6][7][8] The same path was followed by Botafogo on 25 March of the same year.^[9] Previously, the club, along with Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco, had already announced that it would negotiate their broadcast rights directly, without mediation of Clube dos 13, position then later also by Coritiba and Cruzeiro and then Vitória, Santos, Goiás, Bahia and Sport.

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