Spain

Multi-sport

The Spanish Sports Association (ADESP) president, José Hidalgo, has said the organisation’s priorities during his second term in office will include the centralised sale of its members’ broadcast righ…
Football

A decline of matchday income brought on by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a 65-per-cent decline in profits for clubs in Spain’s top-flight La Liga Santander and second-tier La Liga Smart B…
Football

LaLiga president Javier Tebas has downplayed the possibility of strong revenue increases for the league ahead of its sale of media rights in Spain beyond the current cycle, warning "we are not going to…
Football

Matches from the Uefa European Championship attracted bumper audiences across Europe’s major broadcast markets over the weekend with the ‘big five’ countries all in action. G
Football

Kosmos, the company co-founded by FC Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué, has agreed an innovative late deal for the rights to the 2021 Copa América, with the ongoing national team football tournament t…
Football

Tuesday evening’s heavyweight Uefa European Championship clash between Germany and World Cup holders France attracted bumper audiences on free-to-air broadcasters in both countries.
Horse Racing

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports, the Nordic Entertainment (Nent) Group and subscription broadcaster Sport TV are among the broadcasters to have acquired rights to this year’s edition of Royal A…
Football

ESPN and LaLiga have finalized a wide-ranging long-term media rights deal that will make streaming service ESPN+ the principal English- and Spanish-language home for Spain's top-flight soccer league in…
Football

LaLigaSportsTV, the OTT streaming platform of LaLiga, has signed a carriage deal with pay-television broadcaster Movistar Plus
Football

LaLiga president Javier Tebas has said that the emergence of some OTT platforms is driving rights fees down and making negotiations with more traditional broadcasters more difficult
Football

Broadcast rights to Italian football’s Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana from 2021-22 to 2023-24 have been acquired by a string of agencies and broadcasters in different international markets.
Basketball

Spanish basketball organization Liga ACB has hired international sports marketing agency Octagon to serve as an exclusive advisor for its upcoming United States media rights offering that will include …
Football

Spain’s LaLiga has emerged victorious in a legal battle with Real Madrid after the reigning Spanish champions challenged the league body’s authority to commercialise broadcast rights.
Multi-sport

Italy-based commercial broadcaster Mediaset is set to revive its MediaforEurope (MFE) project, which aims to unite its domestic and Spanish business interests into a Dutch holding company
Multi-sport

Mediapro has outlined how the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a €702m ($846.3
Multi-sport

Organisers of cycling’s Vuelta a España have announced it will be the first of the sport’s ‘grand tours’ to have an official account on Twitch, the Amazon-owned online streaming platform. La V
Football

LaLigaSportsTV, the OTT streaming platform of LaLiga, has acquired broadcast rights in Spain and Andorra to Asia’s AFC Champions League from 2021 to 2024.
Football

LaLiga, the organising body of the top two divisions of Spanish club football, has claimed a first by announcing tomorrow’s (Wednesday’s) Basque derby between Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao will be …