Spain

The Mediapro agency has acquired the domestic and international media rights to 39 of the 42 clubs from the Primera Liga and Segunda Liga, the top two divisions of Spanish club football, in one season-deals for the 2015-16 season.

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Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has acquired rights for the Spain national basketball team’s warm-up games ahead of the 2014 Fiba Basketball World Cup in the country.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Atresmedia has acquired rights for pre-season friendly matches featuring top-tier Liga football club Barcelona.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Telecinco has acquired rights to pre-season club football competition the International Champions Cup.

Spanish agency Mediapro is close to acquiring rights for top-tier Liga football clubs Atlético Madrid and Real Sociedad, according to news website El Confidencial.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE will not bid for the next cycle of media rights for football’s Uefa Champions League, according to daily newspaper El Mundo.

Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica has agreed to acquire an 11.1 per cent stake in the Mediaset Premium pay-television service of Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset, while it has completed a deal to buy Mediaset Espana’s 22 per cent holding in Spanish pay-television operator Canal Plus.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has announced that it will take its sports channel Teledeporte off digital-terrestrial television as part of cost-cutting plans.

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Champions League victor Real Madrid secured the largest revenue payment from European football’s governing body Uefa for competing in the tournament’s 2013-14 edition, with Paris Saint-Germain securing second spot due to the size of its payment from the television market pool.

Spanish Liga football club Real Madrid will “listen to offers” for its media rights covering the 2014-15 season and has given bidders one week to register an interest.

Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica and media company Prisa have agreed to extend the deadline for media company Mediaset to exercise their right of first refusal on the agreement for Telefónica to acquire a 56-per-cent stake in Spanish pay-television operator Canal Plus.

Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica has submitted a bid to acquire media company Mediaset’s 22-per-cent stake in Spanish pay-television operator Canal Plus, according to the Economia Digital news website.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Atresmedia has accused the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) of negotiating a deal for rights to the national team without conducting a tender process.

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