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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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
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La Asociación de Futbolistas Españoles, the Spanish footballers’ association, has launched its own online television channel on its official website.
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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…
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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-…
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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…
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MP & Silva drops Perform to handle its own digital rights but the Sportsman Media Group could be the real winner
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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
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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…
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Crisis in Portugal hits three big football rights properties

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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…
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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
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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.