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
Spanish secretary of sport reveals collective rights legislation plan
New legislation is set to be introduced in Spain that will force football clubs to negotiate the sale of media rights on a collective basis, the country’s secretary of state for sport, Miguel Cardenal, t…
Mediaset snaps up Fiba basketball tournament rights in Spain
Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset Spain has acquired domestic rights for the 2014 Basketball World Cup and the EuroBasket tournaments in 2013 and 2015
Spanish league chief targets collective rights sales within three years
Francisco Roca, the chief executive of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional, the Spanish football league, has said that he hopes the domestic game will adopt a collective media rights model within the next …
TVE picks up Euroleague action
Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has acquired rights for games featuring leading Spanish team Real Madrid in the Euroleague club basketball competition
Pitch clears path from Al Jazeera but stop-gap solution may be needed
Pitch stockpiling of Italian rights presages arrival of Al Jazeera but maybe not until summer 2014
ASO, not UCI, holds the key to world series plan
ASO, as usual, holds the key to planned cycling shake-up
Mediaset the winner
Mediaset deals
ARD/ZDF may yet join EBU qualifiers deal
ARD/ZDF could yet join EBU qualifiers deal
Fifa opens tender for World Cup rights in Spain
Fifa, football’s global governing body, has launched an invitation to tender for the rights in Spain to the 2014 World Cup.
Mediaset snaps up weekly free-to-air Liga match
Spanish commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired domestic rights for one live free-to-air match per week from the Spanish Liga, the top division of football in the country, according to Spanish newspaper…
Mixed Iberian fortunes
Mixed Iberian fortunes
Santa Mónica dispute threatens France v Spain
France v Spain blackout
BT lifted by ESPN deal, but the battle with Sky has only just begun
BT has got a good deal with the ESPN buy-out but still faces an uphill struggle in battle with Sky
Rai pays less for Giro rights but RCS still ahead
Rai pays less for Giro rights and more for production, but the real money will be made abroad