Spain

Javier Tebas, president of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional, the Spanish football league, has outlined how media rights income will be split between clubs when a new collective model is introduced.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Atresmedia has agreed a two-year extension to its rights deal with US wrestling organisation the WWE.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset will switch live coverage of the country’s top-tier football Liga from its Cuatro channel to digital-terrestrial channel Energy.

Spanish broadcaster Mediaset, which owns the Telecinco and Cuatro commercial channels, has acquired rights for next month’s Fifa Club World Cup football tournament in Morocco.

The Spanish Football League (LFP) has joined forces with the country’s Association of Media Agencies, the Mediapro agency and Prisa media company to sign an agreement intended to combat the piracy of Spanish football rights.

José Antonio Sánchez, the new president of Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE, has halted a plan to close sports channel Teledeporte at the end of this year.

Betradar, a division of sports and betting-related services company Sportradar, has struck a carriage deal with Spanish gaming operator Codere for its Live Channel service.

The Liga ACB, the top division of basketball in Spain, will receive record international broadcast coverage for its 2014-15 season.

Mediapro is in talks with Spanish Liga football club Barcelona over a new media-rights deal, according to the agency’s president, Jaume Roures.

Mexican mobile entertainment provider Binbit has agreed a deal with Real Madrid for the exclusive mobile distribution rights across various regions for the Spanish Liga football club’s digital content.

The Mediapro agency has agreed a deal to establish a new package offering sports content from its Spanish pay-television broadcaster Gol T, alongside entertainment content from over-the-top platforms TotalChannel and Wuaki.tv.

Barcelona has agreed to receive no more than four times as much in media-rights income as the lowest-paid team in the Spanish Liga from the 2016-17 season as part of a new centralised model for the top division of football in the country, according to the Bloomberg news agency.

Uefa earned a strong increase in its Champions League rights fee in Spain last week, with most industry insiders believing it had Qatari broadcaster beIN Media Group to thank.

The top basketball league in Spain, Liga ACB, earned a decent domestic rights fee increase in its renewal with public-service broadcaster TVE.

Spanish pay-television broadcaster Gol T and commercial broadcaster Atresmedia have acquired rights for football’s Uefa Champions League European club tournament.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has renewed a rights deal for coverage of the ACB’s leading basketball competitions in the country.