Spain
Mediaset snaps up 2014 World Cup rights in Spain
Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired rights for free-to-air television coverage of the 2014 Fifa World Cup.
Mediaset to show closing rounds of French Open
Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset Spain has acquired rights for the final week of the French Open tennis tournament.
Emirates takes flight with Real Madrid
Emirates has further bolstered its position in the football shirt sponsorship market after finalising a five-year deal with Real Madrid.
Atlético Madrid ordered to pay compensation to Mediapro
Spanish Liga football club Atlético de Madrid has been ordered to pay Mediapro €5.365m ($6.92m) for breaking its broadcast rights contract with the agency.
Atlético and Getafe media rights holding company goes bust
Madrid Deportes Audiovisuales, the holding company that was established to acquire rights for games featuring Spanish top-tier Liga clubs Atlético de Madrid and Getafe, has gone bankrupt.
Barcelona and Real want income protected in collective rights switch
Barcelona and Real Madrid will only agree to join a collective rights sales process for the Spanish Liga if their rights income does not decrease, according to league chief Javier Tebas.
Mediapro claims victory in Real Sociedad court case
Spanish Liga club Real Sociedad has been ordered by a Spanish court to pay the Mediapro agency €7m ($9.2m) after an earlier verdict was reversed.
Spanish federation goes in-house
Spanish football federation looks set to take rights in house once talks with former rights agency Santa Mónica are concluded
Spanish league looks to Italy in putting revenue sharing model first
La Liga president Javier Tebas Medrano talks about the proposed collective selling law for football rights in Spain
Euroleague must sell airtime to maintain value
Basketball’s Euroleague will have to sell airtime around TVE’s coverage of Real Madrid if it wants to match its old rights fees
Crisis hitting World Cup and Roland Garros negotiations
Spanish market proving difficult for sellers of the rights to the Fifa World Cup and French Open tennis
Swedish league defends its closed rights negotiations
The Swedish league explains why it sold its rights without a tender; TV4 Group looks to sell C More.
SweetSpot facing big challenge in battle of Britain
ASO, IMG and Infront all have big cycling ambitions. That could be bad news for UK's SweetSpot