Spain

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Spanish Liga football club Real Madrid is set to make its official television channel, Real Madrid TV, available on digital-terrestrial television in January, according to the El Economista website.

The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has agreed a broadcast deal with the Mediapro agency for the Primera División de Fútbol Femenino, the top division of women’s football.

Spanish regional broadcaster EiTB has agreed a three-year deal with Euroleague Basketball to become the official broadcaster of the Euroleague continental club competition in the Basque region of the country.

The Spanish Liga's requirement that one football match per week be shown on free-to-air television could be abolished, according to news website El Confidencial.

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Spanish agency Mediapro has signed a two-year extension to its Formula One media rights deal, covering the 2014 and 2015 seasons of the motor-racing championship.

Interview with Gerard Romy, managing director of Spanish agency Mediapro, on its deal with Atresmedia and plans to launch a sports channel.

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Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has agreed a rights deal for cycling’s UCI Road World Championships under which it will broadcast Sunday’s showpiece men’s road race.