Spain
Real Madrid close to securing DTT deal for club channel
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.
Spanish women’s football offered coverage on Gol TV
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.
EiTB scores Euroleague rights in Basque country
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.
Spanish Liga’s free-to-air obligation may end
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.
Canal Plus gains in Spain but loses in booming France
Basketball’s Euroleague gains in France and Spain by dropping traditional partners
Mediapro races away with F1 rights extension in Spain
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.
Gerard Romy, managing director, Mediapro
Interview with Gerard Romy, managing director of Spanish agency Mediapro, on its deal with Atresmedia and plans to launch a sports channel.
Signs of life in crisis-hit market as Mediapro cashes in
Mediapro does early Copa del Rey deal and plans new sports channel
TVE to broadcast UCI Road World Championships finale
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.
Canal Plus swoops for Euroleague rights in Spain
Spanish pay-television operator Canal Plus has agreed a three-year deal with Euroleague Basketball for the exclusive rights to the European club competition.
Athletic Bilbao and Mediapro end rights dispute
Spanish Liga football club Athletic Bilbao and the Mediapro agency have reached an agreement to settle their long-running rights dispute.
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Atresmedia swoops for Copa del Rey rights
Spanish commercial broadcaster Atresmedia has agreed a two-year rights deal, covering the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons, for the Copa del Rey domestic knockout football competition.
Atresmedia scores Liga Adelante rights
Spanish commercial broadcaster Atresmedia has agreed a two-year deal to broadcast the Liga Adelante, the second division of Spanish football.
Vuelta on downhill slope in Spain
Value of the Spanish TV rights to the Vuelta fall again
IMG makes premier profit in Spain despite gloom
IMG sells the Premier League rights in Spain
Compromise will not end Mediapro-Prisa rights dispute
The Prisa and Mediapro compromise over payments is not the end of the dispute