Spain

National team qualifier rights values tumble in Italy and Spain

Movistar TV, the IPTV platform of telecommunications company Telefónica, has acquired the Spanish broadcast rights, excluding the country’s national team, to European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup football tournaments.

TVE is “playing fair” in its bid to acquire the Spanish national team's media rights to European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup football tournaments, according to the public-service broadcaster’s president Leopoldo González-Echenique.

A lawsuit filed by the Mediapro agency against Spanish Liga football club Osasuna for breach of contract relating to broadcast rights has been dismissed by a Pamplona court.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE’s acquisition of rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competition for the three seasons from 2012-13 to 2014-15 has been deemed legal by the Audiencia Nacional, the Spanish High Court.

Spanish pay-television broadcaster Gol T has acquired rights for the Latin American Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana and Copa do Brazil club football tournaments.

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Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE is in pole position to acquire media rights for European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team football tournaments, according to newspaper El Mundo.

Servus TV, the German commercial broadcaster owned by energy drinks brand Red Bull, has acquired rights for the final of the Copa del Rey Spanish football club competition.

Spanish broadcaster Mediaset, which owns the Telecinco and Cuatro commercial channels, has linked up with media company Mandarina Productions and journalists Javier Santos and Manu Carreño to establish a new production company.

The Mediapro agency has announced that Sunday’s Spanish Liga game between Real Madrid and Barcelona will become the first football match broadcast globally using 4K technology.

Prisa stake at the centre of battle for control of Spanish pay-TV market as Canal Plus spends on rights

French Ligue 1 football club Paris Saint-Germain has launched a Spanish-language version of its in-house channel, PSG TV.

Pay-television operator Canal Plus has acquired rights in Spain for events on the ATP World Tour, the top men’s tennis tour.

Twitter has struck a deal with the Mediapro agency and Liga de Fútbol Profesional that will allow action from the top-tier Liga football division in Spain to be shown on the social networking website.