Spain

French digital-terrestrial television channel L’Équipe 21 has acquired rights to Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain.

Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain, has renewed media rights deals in Cyprus, Latvia and Lithuania for the 2015-16 season.

The Movistar Plus broadcast platform of Spanish telco Telefónica has agreed a three-season rights deal with Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain.

Spanish LaLiga football club Real Madrid has been awarded a licence that will enable its official television channel, Real Madrid TV, to broadcast on digital-terrestrial television in the country, according to El Mundo.

The Spanish Football League (LFP) has approved the incorporation in its statutes of the Royal Decree that regulates the centralised sale of media rights and revenue sharing in the domestic game.

John Manning, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines live television audiences in key European markets for the evening session of this year’s IAAF World Athletics Championships.

Telefónica’s director general for Catalunya, Kim Faura, is hopeful that the Spanish telecommunications company can agree a deal soon with the Mediapro agency for its IPTV platform Movistar TV to carry pay-television channel beIN Sports.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has been given permission to return to LaLiga top-tier football matches by the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y La Competencia (CNMC), the country’s competition regulator.

Spanish agency Mediapro has failed to agree a carriage deal with Movistar TV, the IPTV platform of telecommunications company Telefónica, for the new beIN Sports channel in the country.

Spanish agency Mediapro has been ordered to pay rival Canal Plus €32m ($35.8m) after a court found that the latter had overpaid on a football rights deal in the country.

Barcelona has sealed a partnership with Twitter that will allow the Spanish LaLiga football club to expand its presence on the social media website.

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences for the 2015 Tour de France

BeIN Media Group has acquired exclusive rights in Spain for the 2015-16 season of the Primeira Liga, the top division of football in Portugal.

Telecable has become the latest pay-television operator to secure a carriage deal for the new beIN Sports channel in Spain.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has built on its domestic football package for the 2015-16 season by acquiring live rights to LaLiga and Copa del Rey games.

The reach of beIN Media Group’s pay-television channel beIN Sports has been further enhanced in Spain through a carriage agreement with telecommunications company Orange.