Spain

Basketball

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.

Motorsport

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

Tennis

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.

Football

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.

Football

Mediapro's Romy on World Cup channel plans

Football

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.

Motorsport

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…
Football

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.

Football

Real and Sevilla will appeal antitrust fines

Motorsport

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines live television audiences in Europe’s five largest markets for motor cycling’s MotoGP World Championship The
Football

Real Madrid has agreed a deal to acquire a 25-per-cent stake in digital-terrestrial television service Net TV in a deal that will allow the Spanish top-tier Liga football club’s in-house channel, Real Madrid TV, to be available nationwide on a free-to-air platform, according to the AS newspaper.

Spanish agency Mediapro is planning to auction the next cycle of domestic rights to the Formula One motor racing championship on Monday, December 9, according to news website El Mundo.

Football

The Comisión Nacional de la Competencia, Spain’s competition authority, has imposed fines totalling about €15m ($20.3m) on the Mediapro agency and four football clubs, including Real Madrid and Barcelona, for having signed media rights deals that run for longer than three seasons.

Tennis

Telefónica has struck a deal with pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport for coverage of the French Open tennis tournament on the telecommunications company’s IPTV platform Movistar TV in Spain.

Football

The Spanish Footballers’ Association (AFE), the union of professional players in Spain, has requested a five-per-cent share of any fee from future media rights deals struck by the Spanish Football League (LFP), according to media reports.

Football

Pauline McVey analyses domestic audiences on free-to-air television for the Fifa World Cup 2014 qualifiers in Europe’s five biggest markets, and in Portugal L

Eurosport has been announced as a launch partner for the new Xbox One video game console in a deal that will offer customers in various European markets the opportunity to access the pan-European sports broadcaster’s coverage of sporting events.