Spain

Spain’s Mediapro agency has provisionally been awarded the rights to LaLiga’s two remaining domestic broadcast packages for the 2019-20 to 2021-22 cycle.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco has acquired rights to the final of this year’s Copa de la Reina women’s football competition between Atlético Madrid and Real Sociedad.

Spain’s competition regulator, the CNMC, has urged the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) to rethink its tender process for the final of this year’s Copa del Rey club competition.

OTT platform DAZN has signed a carriage agreement in Spain with Chinese telco Huawei

Denmark’s RettighedsAlliancen, an organisation dedicated to protecting creative content, has partnered with LaLiga, the governing body of the top two divisions of Spanish club football, to secure the f…

The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has opened a tender for domestic rights to the final of the Copa del Rey club competition

Spain’s Mediapro agency and public broadcaster TVE will likely try again to acquire LaLiga’s two unsold domestic free-to-air rights packages for the 2019-20 to 2021-22 cycle, SportBusiness Media understands.

LaLiga, which operates the top two divisions of Spanish football, has restarted a tender process for two unsold domestic free-to-air rights packages for the 2019-20 to 2021-22 cycle

Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales has said the organisation is working with the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) to launch a new OTT platform

The Provincial Court of Madrid has ordered media company Prisa to pay the Mediapro agency €51m ($57.7

Spanish football club Real Madrid has reportedly opted not to renew its long-running partnership with the Mediapro agency for its in-house television channel

Spain’s top football league, LaLiga, became a de facto public-service sports broadcaster when it launched the LaLigaSportsTV OTT service in late March. In providing visibility for a wide range of second- and third-tier Spanish sports, LaLiga’s 41 professional clubs are doing what broadcaster TVE, with its Teledeporte sports channel, is paid by the state to do.

Any move by Spanish football’s governing body, the Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF), to intervene in the Mediapro agency’s rights deal with the top division of the country’s women’s league would be counter to Spain’s competition laws, local legal experts have told SportBusiness Media.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Atresmedia has agreed a further rights renewal with wrestling organisation WWE. The duration of the new deal is unknown

Spanish football league LaLiga has launched its multi-sport OTT platform LaLigaSportsTV, offering free coverage of Spanish sporting competitions ranging from badminton to weightlifting

International broadcaster Eurosport is set to launch a specialised cycling portal in Spain