BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Divisions of U.S. media companies Twenty-First Century Fox Inc and Time Warner Inc won a joint contract to broadcast Argentine soccer matches for five years from next season, the Argentine Football Association said on Tuesday. Fox Sports Latin America, a unit of Fox, and Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System Latin America Inc won a three-way race for television broadcast rights against the United States' ESPN and Spanish company MediaPro. The companies will also take on the court case brought by Argentine media company Grupo Clarin SA against the soccer association, which sold ownership rights to the federal government for its subsidized, free-to-view Futbol para Todos (Soccer for All) program in 2009. The broadcast deal comes a week after Argentine players ended a strike that delayed the start of the season by more than a month. ($1 = 15.5100 Argentine pesos)(Reporting by Luis Ampuero; Writing by Rex Gowar and Luc Cohen; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)

Source: The Star March 14, 2017 14:15 UTC