Spain

Football

The Spanish Football League (LFP) has written to the country’s government to ask for the implementation of legislation that will enable the introduction of a collective media-rights sales model “as soon as possible.”

Football

Mediapro has won an appeal in the Spanish Supreme Court against an earlier ruling that the agency had breached contracts relating to rights for Spanish football’s top-tier Liga.

Football

Spanish Liga football club Athletic Bilbao has confirmed a one-year contract with the Mediapro agency for its broadcast rights in the 2015-16 season.

Cycling

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has acquired rights for the Giro d’Italia and a number of other cycling races.

Football

The Spanish Liga and Segunda Division’s member clubs will meet at a Liga de Fútbol Profesional assembly on Friday in a bid to push through the system under which collective broadcast rights selling will be introduced into domestic football.

Multi-sport

Organisers of Baku’s 2015 European Games have secured rights deals in Spain, Portugal, Estonia, Latvia and Slovenia for the inaugural edition of the multi-sport event.

Football

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset was forced to increase its fee to keep the rights for Spanish national team football friendlies in a deal agreed last week following a formal tender ordered by the country’s competition regulator.

Football

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews the most-watched events of 2014 in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Cycling

The European Broadcasting Union consortium of free-to-air broadcasters and pan-European broadcaster Eurosport have extended their rights agreement for the Vuelta a España cycling race under a five-year deal running from 2016 to 2020.

Fox International Channels (FIC), the broadcast division of media company 21st Century Fox, has appointed Vera Pinto Pereira as the new managing director of its Iberia division.

Football

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has agreed a three-year deal with the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for national team and club competition rights.

Football

Barcelona will hold a board meeting on January 26 at which talks will be held over telecommunications company Telefónica’s bid to acquire the Spanish Liga football club’s broadcast rights.

Football

Telefónica’s acquisition of all rights to two Primera Liga clubs, and its bid to acquire the rights to Spanish giant Barcelona, are aimed at strengthening the telco’s position ahead of changes in the domestic broadcast market.

Motorsport

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews television audiences across the big five markets for the recently concluded Formula One World Championship

Handball

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE and UK pay-television broadcaster Sky have acquired rights for the 2015 men’s World Handball Championships in Qatar.

Football

Pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera, which operates the beIN Media Group, is considering bidding for a free-to-air DTT licence in Spain and attempting to acquire rights for the Liga, the top division of football in the country, according to the Vozpopuli news website.

Football

Telecommunications company Telefónica has agreed broadcast rights deals with Spanish Liga football clubs Celta Vigo and Real Sociedad for the 2015-16 season.

Football

FASFE, a network of football supporters’ clubs, has submitted a complaint to the European Union over the distribution of rights income in Spanish football.