Spain

Telefónica makes return to sport-rights market after a decade away

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews the most-watched events of 2013 across 10 of the world’s biggest media markets E

Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica has agreed a multi-year rights deal with Formula One Management, the commercial rights-holder for the motor racing series, under which it will launch a dedicated F1 channel on its IPTV platform Movistar TV.

The Liga de Fútbol Profesional, the Spanish football league, has teamed up with the Spanish Sports Council (CSD) to launch a wide-ranging campaign targeting piracy of the league’s media rights.

 

Real Madrid and Barcelona will have their media rights income capped at four times as much as the Spanish top-tier Liga’s smallest club, according to Javier Tebas, the president of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional, the Spanish football league.

The Liga de Fútbol Profesional (LFP), the professional football league in Spain, has launched a new online channel that will provide live coverage of games from the Liga Adelante, the second tier of football in the country.

Telecommunications company Telefónica has acquired MotoGP rights in Spain for the 2014 season, according to the Dorna Sports agency, the motorcycling world championship’s commercial rights-holder.

The Diario AS news service has teamed up with the NBA to launch a new website dedicated to providing video highlights and other content from the North American basketball league to fans in Spain.

Mediapro sees margins trimmed but still makes profit on F1 as its sell on the rights in Spain

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has extended a rights deal for the Davis Cup and Fed Cup national team tennis tournaments.

Spanish commercial broadcaster Antena 3 and Catalan public-service broadcaster TV3 have agreed extensions to rights deals for the Formula One motor-racing championship.

The CAA Eleven agency has today launched an invitation to tender for the media rights in Spain to European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team football tournaments.

Mediapro's Romy on World Cup channel plans

Movistar TV, the IPTV platform of telecommunications company Telefónica, and pay-television operator Canal Plus are the favourites to acquire carriage rights for the Mediapro agency’s Gol Mundial channel in Spain, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

A championship dominated by one driver, now four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, and the continued shift of live race coverage from free-to air to pay-television coincided with a drop in average…

Mediapro has invited pay-television operators to submit offers to carry the Spanish agency’s Gol Mundial channel, which will provide blanket coverage of the 2014 Fifa World Cup national team football tournament.