Spain
Euro 2012 semi-final attracts record audience in Spain
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.
French Open deal extended
Silva set to add a year to Open deal
Osasuna signs lucrative new rights deal with Prisa, presidential candidate says
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…
Mediapro fires back in Athletic Bilbao rights dispute
The Mediapro agency has responded to claims by Spanish Liga football club Athletic Bilbao that it owes €7 million ($8.8
Marca TV acquires rights to cycling’s Vuelta a Burgos
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…
La Liga moves up to third in Big Five TV rights league
La Liga overtakes Ligue 1 in rights fee income
Spain’s Big Two still in front despite European flop
Media rights income, club by club, in Europe's top 5 leagues for the 2011-12 season
Spanish mobile operators strike Euro 2012 deal
Spanish mobile phone operators Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange have reached deals with media company Mediaset Spain to show live Uefa Euro 2012 matches.
Sportfive in deal with Santa Monica to distribute Spanish cup 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…
Fans flock to social networks
Sports fans increasingly turn to social networks for content
UK and Italy deals widen highlights rights income gap
Varying fortunes for highlights across European leagues
Broadcast revenue drives turnover growth in European football
Broadcast revenue was the main driver of growth in turnover across the five biggest domestic football leagues in Europe in the 2010-11 season, according to the latest report on football finance by financial…
Primera Liga duo open to TV revenue change, claims sports minister
Spanish Liga teams Real Madrid and Barcelona may be open to agreeing a more equal distribution of income from broadcast rights fees, according to the country’s sports minister, José Ignacio Wert.
Real Betis renews contract with Prisa
Spanish Liga club Real Betis and pay-television operator Prisa TV have agreed a new three-year rights deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, superseding an existing deal between the two parties which was due to…
Spanish basketball league to renew with TVE
Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has reportedly renewed its rights deal for the Spanish basketball league, the ACB for the 2012-13 season onwards.
TVE will pay a fixed fee of €1 million ($1.3
Leenders: Fiba has found ‘innovative solution’ for rights
Fiba teams up with Leenders and Klooz in 'innovative' move
Uefa enjoys 30% increase in Europe despite recession
Champions League value up by 30% in top 5 European markets
Mediapro to fight Spanish antitrust ruling
The Mediapro agency has filed an appeal with a special division of the Spanish Supreme Court over the decision by Spain’s antitrust authority to begin legal proceedings against the agency and three Spanish f…