U.S. HISPANIC
Alterna’TV acquires exclusive rights to baseball’s La Serie Del Caribe
Maribel Ramos-Weiner| 2 de febrero de 2012
This year's tournament games is held in Santo Domingo at the Estadio Quisqueya
Alterna’TV, a subsidiary of Latin America’s leading satellite service provider SatMex, in partnership with Latin American Sports (LAS) channel, has acquired the exclusive rights to broadcast The Caribbean Series, the annual professional baseball tournament for the winter season’s winning teams from the Confederación de Béisbol Profesional del Caribe (Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation), which include teams from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Mexico.This year’s tournament games, played in Santo Domingo at the Estadio Quisqueya, will be broadcast on the Latin American Sports (LAS) channel, carried on DISH Puerto Rico (channel 856), beginning February 2nd till the 7th.Each year, the series is hosted by one of the league’s participating countries. In 2013, the series will be played in Mexico and in 2014, the series moves to Venezuela. Alterna’TV and LAS will hold exclusive broadcast rights for The Caribbean Series for the next three years in the Puerto Rican market only.The Series’ tournament format is a six game round robin format where every team plays each of the other teams twice with the Championship going to the team that wins the most games.
