Spain

Spanish Liga football club Barcelona has launched a subscription-based video-on-demand service.

Telecommunications companies Vodafone and Orange have submitted appeals in Spain’s High Court over rival Telefónica’s takeover of pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus, according to daily newspaper El Economista.

LaLiga, the new brand name for the Spanish Football League, will proceed with a tender process for the domestic rights to the top two divisions of Spanish football following the receipt of a report from the country’s competition regulator, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y La Competencia (CNMC).

LaLiga president Javier Tebas has said he expects the international rights sales process for Spanish football’s top two divisions to generate €600m ($671m).

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has revealed plans to offer Spanish-language content for its Eurosport 2 television channel, while its new local channel in Denmark has launched.

Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica has submitted an offer to acquire the collective international rights for LaLiga, the new brand name for the Spanish Football League.

Subscribers to Spanish pay-television operator Canal Plus will be able to access Formula One and MotoGP content provided by Movistar TV from next month, according to multiple reports.

Spanish football’s ongoing rights shake-up continued during a fortnight in which collective selling was brought forward by the league and Mediapro was appointed its international marketing partner.

John Manning, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences for this year's Uefa Champions League.

The collective international rights deal for LaLiga, the new brand name of the Spanish Football League, will not include champion Barcelona, Espanyol, Celta Vigo or Real Sociedad, while US technology company Microsoft has denied reports that it has struck a deal with Real Madrid for its international rights.

LaLiga, the new brand name of the Spanish Football League (LFP), has said that international deals for the Spanish top tier will be struck regardless of whether it has complete control of clubs’ media rights for the 2015-16 season.

The Mediapro agency has agreed a deal with the LFP, the body that operates the Spanish football league, to allow a centralised rights-sales process to be introduced from the start of the 2015-16 season.

Spanish pay-television operator Canal Plus has acquired rights to the 2015 edition of pre-season club football competition the International Champions Cup.

Pay-television broadcaster BeIN Media Group plans to bid aggressively to acquire rights for games featuring Spanish Liga football clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona, according to Spanish newspaper Marca.

Spanish Liga football club Real Madrid has submitted a proposal to make its official television channel, Real Madrid TV, available on digital-terrestrial television in the country, according to the PRNoticias.com website.

Spanish agency Mediapro has acquired rights for Spanish Segunda División football club Real Mallorca.