Spain
Spanish basketball league finalises domestic TV coverage
Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE’s coverage of the domestic basketball league under a rights deal beginning this season will include one match per week on Saturday and the first-choice game on S…
Drop in second-party rights prices as Uefa arrives at central solution
Dip in second-party World Cup qualifier values in key markets
New strategy means no audience for Barça and Real
Why Sky Italia dropped the Spanish and German leagues
Prisa doubles its investment to strengthen grip on pay-TV market
Spotlight on Spanish football: Sharing deal with Mediapro leaves Prisa much stronger; Who's showing what on Spanish TV next season; International crisis averted
Rights fees up by 23% but legal problems loom
Liga rights fees boosted
Spanish Supercopa sets ratings record
Real Madrid’s victory over Barcelona on Wednesday, August 29 was the most-watched Supercopa game in Spanish television history, according to research company Kantar Media.
La Sexta struggling to pay Mediapro for Liga rights, report says
Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta owes its parent company, the Mediapro agency, an outstanding fee of €54 million ($66.7
Mallorca becomes latest to switch from Mediapro to Prisa
Spanish Liga football club Real Mallorca has signed a new rights deal with pay-television operator Prisa for three years, from 2012-13 to 2014-15.
The deal is worth a total of €64 million ($79.3
Prisa and Mediapro strike Liga rights peace deal
The Mediapro agency has agreed a deal with pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus, owned by Prisa, to share coverage of the Spanish Liga, the top division of football in the country, for three seasons,…
Liga to start on time, but rights dispute continues
The 2012-13 Spanish Liga season will start as scheduled this weekend after clubs were assured at a meeting on Tuesday that progress had been made in talks to bring an end to a broadcast rights dispute…
Imagenio agrees carriage deal for Champions League football
Spanish telco Imagenio, owned by Telefónica, agreed a carriage deal with pay-television broadcaster Prisa TV for Uefa Champions League football coverage from next season.
Emergency meeting for Liga over TV rights dispute
Liga de Fútbol Profesional, the Spanish football league, has scheduled an extraordinary general meeting for tomorrow, August 14, after 13 clubs from La Liga, Spain’s top football division, threatened to…
Five in running for free-to-air Spanish football rights, Mediapro says
The Mediapro agency has received five bids for the free-to-air domestic rights covering the Spanish Liga and Segunda División, the top two divisions of football in the country.
Atlético Madrid chief calls for Spanish rights reform
Atlético Madrid chief executive Miguel Angel Gil said that the future of Spanish football is under threat unless the sport’s broadcast rights model in the country is adapted.
Espanyol confirms rights deal with Prisa
Spanish La Liga football club Espanyol has signed a new television rights contract with pay-television operator Prisa for three years, from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Spanish footballers’ association launches online channel
La Asociación de Futbolistas Españoles, the Spanish footballers’ association, has launched its own online television channel on its official website.
Spanish Liga confirms later kick-off slots after broadcaster talks
The Spanish Liga, the top division of football in the country, has confirmed that the games scheduled for the opening two rounds of the 2012-13 domestic season will kick off no earlier than 7pm, after…
Prisa hits out at Mediapro rights auction
Spanish pay-television operator Prisa has accused the Mediapro agency of launching an “illegal” sales process for rights covering the country’s top two football divisions for the next two seasons, 2012-…