Spain

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.

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

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has hit out at LaLiga’s decision to assign exclusive free-to-air highlights for the top division of Spanish football and the Copa del Rey to public-service broadcaster TVE.

Telcos Orange and Vodafone have become the first two operators in the Spanish market to sublicense LaLiga content in the 2015-16 season from rival firm Telefónica, while public-service broadcaster TVE has agreed a deal for highlights rights.

The ESPN International division of sports broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights in Spanish-speaking South America to LaLiga and the Segunda División, the top two divisions of club football in Spain.

Spain’s competition regulator, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y La Competencia, has fined telco Telefónica and pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus €15.5m ($17.1m) for alleged anti-competitive behaviour in the exploitation of football rights for the three seasons from 2012-13 to 2014-15.

Spain’s LaLiga has leapfrogged Italy’s Serie A in media rights income to become Europe’s second most valuable league following deals agreed in recent weeks.

Lukas Zajancauskas, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences for this year's Fifa Women's World Cup.

LaLiga, the new brand name for the Spanish Football League, is set to launch a new tender process in October or November for the domestic media rights to club football from the 2016-17 season, as further details emerged over the terms of its deal with telecommunications company Telefónica for the forthcoming campaign.

The IPC Swimming division of the International Paralympic Committee has said a record level of broadcast coverage has been secured for the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, which got underway today (Monday) in Glasgow, Scotland.