Spain

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.

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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.

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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.

Vodafone has asked the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y La Competencia (CNMC), Spain’s competition regulator, to suspend a recent carriage deal for the new beIN Sports LaLiga pay-television channel between rival telco Telefónica and the Mediapro agency.

The Mediapro agency is preparing to offer football rights to the rivals of telecommunications company Telefónica in Spain in an effort to ease antitrust concerns, according to Bloomberg.

The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y La Competencia (CNMC), Spain’s competition regulator, is looking into the agreement signed between telecommunications company Telefónica and the Mediapro agency for carriage of the new beIN Sports LaLiga pay-television channel, according to multiple reports.

The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y La Competencia (CNMC), Spain’s competition regulator, has ruled that LaLiga must provide a 90-second summary of every game from the top division of domestic football and allow free access to stadiums for broadcasters.

Orange and Vodafone have claimed that rival telecommunications company Telefónica should share carriage of the new beIN Sports LaLiga pay-television channel in Spain.