Spain

Barcelona earned the biggest television rights payment in LaLiga last season despite rival Real Madrid winning the title.

BeIN Media Group has claimed the “most ambitious” football offering in the Spanish market after agreeing a carriage deal for its OTT service with the Movistar Partidazo pay-television channel of telco Telefónica.

Spanish broadcaster Mediaset will not broadcast its proposed matches from the Copa del Rey amid a dispute over its rights deal with the Mediapro agency.

Media company Discovery Communications will retain exclusive rights to the 2018 winter Olympic Games in Spain after unveiling its coverage plans.

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai is understood to be close to a sublicensing deal with Discovery Communications to acquire rights to the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset acquired all rights to the 2018 Fifa World Cup in a deal worth at least 15 per cent less than Fifa earned for 2014.

LaLiga, the organising body of the top two divisions of Spanish football, has struck a carriage deal with the Sky España arm of the European pay-television group to offer its official television channel for the second-tier Segunda División through Sky’s recently launched OTT platform.

LaLiga, the organisation which oversees the top two divisions of Spanish club football, has launched a tender process for its media rights in Europe.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired exclusive rights to the 2018 Fifa World Cup.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has committed to televise the national basketball team’s opening two qualifying games for the 2019 World Cup after stating it has received the necessary assurances from the International Basketball Federation (Fiba) over the current dispute in the sport.

Internet company Amazon and social media platform Facebook are interested in acquiring rights to LaLiga, the top division of Spanish football, according to El Confidencial.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has agreed a rights deal with Māori Television, a free-to-air broadcaster in New Zealand, amid question marks over its contract with Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset.

LaLiga president Javier Tebas has said the organisation which oversees the top two divisions of Spanish club football expects to earn €2.3bn ($2.66bn) per year from its broadcast rights within three seasons, adding that the organisation can now look to take its rights to market as the political situation in Catalonia has improved.

Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain, has agreed deals through the MP & Silva agency with the social media platform Facebook and Chinese internet company Tencent for live streaming coverage of this Sunday’s game between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, known as ‘El Clásico’.

LaLiga president Javier Tebas has said the organisation which oversees the top two divisions of Spanish club football needs to step up its engagement with OTT and other digital media platforms, adding it has received interest from the likes of streaming service Netflix and Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten.

Spanish LaLiga football club Real Madrid has struck a strategic partnership with Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo.