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Fifa launches rights tender in Spain
World football’s governing body Fifa has opened an invitation to tender in Spain for the media rights to its national team tournaments taking place between 2019 and 2022.
DAZN to launch in Spain from 2019 with MotoGP and English Premier League
Streaming platform DAZN will launch in Spain from 2019 with exclusive pay-television rights to MotoGP and the English Premier League, bringing competition to a market that had become dominated by Telefonica
Telefónica boosted by football rights deals
Spanish telco Telefónica added 101,000 television customers in the quarter leading to September on the back of its acquisition of a number of football rights.
TV3 returns to cover Copa del Rey
Catalan public-service broadcaster TV3 has acquired rights for the Copa del Rey club football competition.
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Premier League set to receive bids in multiple markets
England’s Premier League will today receive offers for its rights in multiple markets for the three seasons from 2019-20 to 2021-22.
Mediapro hires former Spanish Sports Minister
Spanish agency Mediapro has said that Miguel Cardenal, the former Secretary of State for Sports in Spain, will join the company next month
FloSports to provide Pro14 coverage in multiple markets
Sports streaming service FloSports has agreed a three-season deal to show matches of the cross-border Pro14 rugby union league in multiple markets, from 2018-19 to 2020-21.
Fight Sports signs carriage deal with Orange Spain
Fight Sports, the linear sports channel and digital service, has agreed a carriage deal in Spain with telco operator Orange
Teledeporte retains EuroCup rights
Teledeporte, the sports channel of Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE, has struck a fresh deal for rights to the EuroCup, the secondary club competition of Euroleague Basketball
Mediapro/beIN acquire Serie A rights in Spain
Rights to Italy’s Serie A in Spain have been acquired by the joint venture of the Mediapro agency and pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports.
Vodafone and Orange sell LaLiga bar and club rights to Mediapro
The Mediapro agency has acquired the broadcasting rights in public establishments of Spain’s top-tier LaLiga from telcos Vodafone and Orange in the 2018-19 season, adding to the same set of rights it w…
Telefónica adds Segunda Division to football portfolio
Movistar Plus, the pay-television platform of Spanish telco Telefónica, has acquired rights to the Segunda Division, the second tier of domestic football, and has also added France’s Ligue 1 to its li…
Mediaset nets Euro 2020 rights in Spain
Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired exclusive free-to-air rights to the Uefa Euro 2020 national team football tournament, along with a package of matches played by overseas national teams
Spanish handball league hails LaLiga TV partnership
LaLiga TV, the official television channel of the top division of Spanish football, has acquired rights to Liga Asobal, the top tier of domestic handball
Vodafone balks at cost of Telefónica’s football rights packages
The Spanish division of Vodafone has confirmed it will not offer the full package of football content held by rival telco Telefónica stating the continuous rise in the cost of these rights makes it impossible …
Eleven picks up Serie A rights as IMG invests in UK, Ireland channels
Eleven Sports has acquired rights for Italian Serie A top-tier football in the UK and Ireland and confirmed that the IMG agency will hold a minority stake in the two new channels that will show the coverage
BeIN to broadcast International Champions Cup in Spain
Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights in Spain to the International Champions Cup pre-season football competition.
Play Sports Network commences expansion plan with Spanish-language channel
Digital media company Play Sports Network has launched its first non-English language channel as part of what it states will be a major internationalisation plan.