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Spain’s antitrust authority, the Comisión Nacional de la Competencia, has launched formal disciplinary proceedings against the Mediapro agency for allegedly abusing a dominant position by restricting th…
Football

MP & Silva drops Perform to handle its own digital rights but the Sportsman Media Group could be the real winner
Football

Barcelona’s ability to drive revenue from television rights has “topped out”, or reached a peak, according to the Spanish Liga club’s economic vice-president Javier Faus. Fa
Football

Spanish broadcaster Mediaset Spain feels “obligated” to consider acquiring the rights for the 2014 Fifa World Cup following the ratings success of the Uefa Euro 2012 tournament, according to the group’s direc…
Football

Crisis in Portugal hits three big football rights properties

Football

The Mediapro agency and pay-television broadcaster Prisa TV are competing to acquire the media rights of Spanish Liga club Celta Vigo for the next three seasons, in a deal which is expected to earn the…
Football

Spanish La Liga football club Espanyol is close to signing a new television rights contract to begin next season with pay-television broadcaster Prisa TV
Football

Despite a healthy increase in TV rights fees, Uefa still faces questions on Europa League

Leopoldo González-Echenique has been appointed as the new president of Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE.
Football

Live coverage of the final stages of Spain’s victory over Portugal in the semi-finals of Uefa Euro 2012 on Wednesday attracted the largest audience in the history of Spanish television.
Tennis

Silva set to add a year to Open deal
Football

Spanish La Liga football club Osasuna has signed a new television rights contract to begin next season with pay-television broadcaster Prisa TV, according Miguel Archanco, who is a candidate to become…
Football

The Mediapro agency has responded to claims by Spanish Liga football club Athletic Bilbao that it owes €7 million ($8.8
Cycling

The organisers of cycling’s Vuelta a Burgos have agreed a number of deals in Spain and France for rights to the five-day stage race, including a deal with Marca TV, the digital-terrestrial channel managed b…
Football

La Liga overtakes Ligue 1 in rights fee income

Football

Media rights income, club by club, in Europe's top 5 leagues for the 2011-12 season

Football

Spanish mobile phone operators Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange have reached deals with media company Mediaset Spain to show live Uefa Euro 2012 matches.
Football

The Sportfive agency has agreed a deal with Santa Monica Media, the partner agency of the Real Federación Española de Fútbol, the Spanish football federation, to distribute rights in selected territories fo…