Portugal

Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has had a fine reduced by the country’s competition tribunal following an appeal.

Cumulative free-to-air television audiences across the big five markets increase for this season's Uefa Europa League, as Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence explains

Lisbon-based top-tier Primeira Liga football club Sporting Portugal will launch its own channel this summer.

Portugal’s media regulator, the ERC, has refused to accept a proposed deal for telecommunications company Portugal Telecom to acquire a 25-per-cent stake in Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV.

Portuguese public-service broadcaster RTP has acquired free-to-air rights for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi and the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, according to the Expresso.sapo.pt news website.

Pauline McVey analyses domestic audiences on free-to-air television for the Fifa World Cup 2014 qualifiers in Europe’s five biggest markets, and in Portugal L

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has signed media rights agreements for the European qualifying matches for the Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team competitions in the territories of Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV has acquired the pay-television rights in Portugal to the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi and the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Portuguese Primeira Liga football club Benfica will launch a second television channel in October, according to president Luis Filipe Vieira.

The Autoridade da Concorrência, Portugal’s competition regulator, has said that it will undertake a “thorough investigation” into the proposed new ownership model of pay-television broadcaster Sport TV.

German sports broadcaster Sportdigital has acquired rights to Portuguese Primeira Liga top-flight football in a three-year deal, from 2013-14 to 2015-16.

Portuguese pay-television sports broadcaster Sport TV will launch a new channel called Sport TV Live in August, according to the A Bola news website.

Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV said it would appeal after being fined €3.7m ($4.9m) by the Autoridade da Concorrência, the country’s competition regulator.

Mário Figueiredo, president of the Portuguese Liga, has said that the football league will appeal to the European Commission if the country’s media regulator, the ERC, refuses to block a proposed deal for telecommunications company Portugal Telecom to acquire a 25-per-cent stake in Portuguese pay-television broadcaster Sport TV.

Second-tier Portuguese football club Academico Viseu has denied reports it is to sell its media rights to Benfica TV, the basic-tier channel operated by Benfica.

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