Claro Sports

Before Claro Sports was launched on the air, the channel was known as Viva Sports, which was not widely distributed among cable operators and lacked a diverse programming lineup that could secure a stable audience. The channel was officially launched on December 16, 2013, backed by América Móvil and its director, Arturo Elías Ayub. The signal is available throughout Latin America, where América Móvil operates pay television systems. The first program was created based on an idea by producer Pepe Quirarte, and it was a news show hosted by Gabriela Cobo and Rodrigo Méndez. Shortly afterward, hourly news capsules titled "Tiempo Fuera" ("Time Out") were introduced. The channel also formed a partnership in Mexico with the Spanish newspaper Marca, with which it merged content and coverage. In this way, the team grew, and the content expanded, eventually becoming the established channel it is today. On July 28, 2019, Claro Sports began operations in Guatemala to offer local content for Central America and the Dominican Republic. In Guatemala, it holds the broadcasting rights for three teams in the National Football League and 11 clubs in the First Division League.^[3]

On July 31, 2022, during the broadcast of the León vs. América match from the 2022 Apertura Tournament on Claro Sports through its YouTube channel "Marca Claro," the television network Fox Sports took down the stream from that website, alleging copyright infringement. In response, Claro Sports restored the broadcast, only for it to be taken down again minutes later by Fox Sports.^[4] In an official statement, América Móvil, Claro Sports, and Marca Claro—through their content director Arturo Elías Ayub (who tweeted: “When you have a bad and expensive product like Fox Sports competing with a much better one like @MarcaClaro and @ClaroSports, you have to resort to dirty tricks like the one yesterday during the #León vs. #América match, even if it harms millions of fans”)—explained that they also held the rights to broadcast Club León’s home matches, and would be taking legal action against Fox Sports and its parent company, Grupo Multimedia Lauman, for damages.^[5] Fox Sports also released a statement accepting full responsibility for the incident but emphasized that they would not allow matches—whose rights are shared with other networks—to be broadcast for free, especially when some of them are aired on their Premium channel, which requires a paid subscription. Shortly afterward, both networks began negotiations to avoid further conflicts.^[6]

• Marca Claro MVS Radio
• Jugando Claro
• Deportes en Claro
• Adrenalina
• Absolute X
• Ultimate Rush
• El corazón de la fiera
• Auto y pista
• Vidas extraordinarias
• Tread BMX
• Biatlón
• Enciclopedia del deporte
• Compacto León
• Claro soy Tuzo
• Fútbol y Tacón
• Sport Confidential
• La casa de los leones
• Road To Río
• Quisiera ser
• En el Diamante
• Football Stars
• Olympia
• Historia Olímpica
• Guide to the Games
• Noticias Claro Sports Colombia

• Television in Mexico