Spain

Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain, has claimed a first for the Spanish sports media market by live streaming a game via social media platform Facebook.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired rights for the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament.

Pay-television broadcaster BeIN Sports will stream live coverage of the 2015-16 finals of the Uefa Champions League and Europa League club football tournaments to audiences in Spain via video-sharing platform YouTube.

LaLiga, the organising body of the top division of Spanish football, has said it will broadcast a number of pre-season games featuring its clubs via its official channel on video-sharing platform YouTube.

Spanish agency Mediapro has sealed a five-year syndicated loan agreement with eight banks worth €306m ($352.2m), in a move it said will aid expansion plans.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Atresmedia has acquired rights to the Uefa European Under-17 Championship, which gets underway in Azerbaijan tomorrow (Thursday).

Broadcast coverage of the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament in Spain remains in limbo after commercial broadcaster Mediaset rejected the opportunity to acquire the rights during its latest meeting with the CAA Eleven agency.

Spanish Liga football club Real Madrid has launched its official television channel, Real Madrid TV, on digital-terrestrial television in the country, completing a process to secure wider coverage for the platform.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has acquired rights for the World Padel Tour – a bat-and-ball series that is held primarily in Spanish-speaking countries.

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has broadened its reach in Spain by agreeing a carriage deal with telco Vodafone.

Paolo Vasile, the chief executive of Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset, has hit out at the sales process for rights in the country covering the Uefa Euro 2016 national team football tournament.

Spanish regional pay-television operator Telecable has become the latest company to agree a carriage deal for the beIN Sports LaLiga channel.

Telecommunications companies Vodafone and Orange have agreed carriage deals in Spain for the beIN Sports LaLiga channel.

The value of Vuelta a España rights in Spain fell for the third successive time in a renewal with TVE last week.

Barcelona’s commercial director Francesco Calvo has said the Spanish Liga football club’s recent virtual-reality based initiative with social media platform Facebook will mark the beginning of a longer partnership between the two parties.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has been granted permission to broadcast clips of Uefa Champions League football games after the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y La Competencia, the country’s competition regulator, ruled that matches were of “public interest to society.”