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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 …
Multi-sport

The Sports Federation Union of Catalonia (UFEC) has launched a new dedicated digital content platform that will look to promote sport in the region. Esportcat
Football

Mediapro chief executive Jaume Roures has issued a statement distancing himself from a financial guarantee provided to Joan Laporta following his recent election as FC Barcelona president
Football

Matches from the Scottish Premiership will be streamed in seven international markets by OneFootball in a deal between the football-based media platform and the Infront agency
Motorsport

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has agreed a rights deal with Extreme E, the new electric off-road racing series
Multi-sport

The Mediapro agency is looking to restructure its debt and has applied for state aid as it seeks to secure its future in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic
Multi-sport

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has agreed a deal with Discovery for free-to-air rights to the rescheduled summer Olympic Games in Tokyo
Football

Football’s English Premier League and Spanish LaLiga have claimed a win in the fight against the piracy of their content after illegal streaming app Mobdro ceased all operations.
Cycling

Spanish public-service broadcaster RTVE has increased its by expenditure 25 per cent in renewing its rights to the Vuelta a España cycling race for four years from 2021 to 2024.
Multi-sport

Spanish telco Telefónica has failed with a renewed application to Spanish competition watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), to lift an obligation it has to share rights t…