Spain

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.”

Spanish agency Mediapro has recorded a 40-per-cent increase in its gross operating profit for the 2015 financial year, adding that it expects a further rise for 2016.

The board of Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has approved a renewal of a rights deal for the Vuelta a España cycling race.

Vodafone has called on the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y La Competencia (CNMC), Spain’s competition regulator, to intervene in its battle with rival telco Telefónica to screen the Formula One motor racing championship and MotoGP motorcycling series, adding it is considering legal action should the dispute not be resolved.

Spanish agency Mediapro will launch a new free-to-air sports channel on digital-terrestrial television in the country.

John Manning, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, looks at television audiences for Super Bowl 50

Catalan public-service broadcaster TV3 has struck a sublicensing rights deal with Spanish telco Telefónica to show coverage of the Formula One motor racing world championship.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has decided to stop showing recaps of matches from the country’s top-tier football Liga in protest at a ruling from Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia, the national competition regulator.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has agreed a three-season extension to its rights deal for motorcycling series the Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK).

The Formula One motor racing championship is to be without free-to-air coverage in Spain for the first time in 19 years after existing rights holders declined to extend their deals.

John Manning, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews the most-watched events of 2015 in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Pay-television operator Digi Czech Republic has acquired rights for the Spanish Liga top football division.

Spanish agency Mediapro has filed a legal complaint against Barcelona and Sandro Rosell, the former president of the Spanish Liga football club.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has acquired rights for the Formula E Championship electric car-racing series.