Spain
Pay-TV market finally delivers big increase for German league
Sky v Telekom battle helps German league to 50 per cent rise; Saturday internet highlights proposal not a game-changer
Uefa wants control and security
Uefa positions itself nicely to cherry-pick top markets
Uefa looking for value from games worth ‘peanuts’
Uefa looking for huge increase in value for third-party qualifier rights to hit ambitious target
French Open price falls in Spain as crisis takes hold
Spanish crisis lets in Mediaset for one-year French Open deal
Spanish football clubs told to set aside broadcast income for tax payments
Spanish football clubs will be forced to set aside 35 per cent of their broadcast rights income as a guarantee against tax obligations from the start of the 2014-15 season, under new rules agreed between…
La Sexta rules out bid to retain free-to-air Liga rights
José Miguel Contreras, the chief executive of Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta, has ruled out a bid to retain domestic rights for the weekly free-to-air match from the Spanish football league, …
Big EBU deal puts Fifa on course
EBU pays healthy increase for World Cup despite recession
Uefa suffers 7% drop across top 5 European markets
Euros value drops by nearly 7% across top 5 European markets
Al Jazeera pays big fees for key content ahead of launch
Al Jazeera stocks up in US ahead of channel launch
Hard times in Spain for Uefa
Ad crisis hurts Uefa in Spain
TVE loses French Open tennis rights to Mediaset
Mediaset Spain, owner of Spanish commercial channels Telecinco and Cuatro, has acquired rights for the 2012 French Open tennis tournament from the MP & Silva agency, which holds the tournament’s rights i…
Mediapro clamps down on unauthorised bar broadcasts
The Mediapro agency blocked the signal of its pay-television football channel Gol TV to 474 bars across Spain last weekend which it suspected had unauthorised access to the channel
TVE back in the frame for domestic basketball rights, report says
Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE is keen to retain rights for the country’s top-tier basketball league, the ACB, when its current four-year deal, from 2008-09 to 2011-12, expires in June, according t…
Perform strikes deal to put Livesport on LG television sets
Digital media company Perform has agreed a deal for its Livesport.tv live sports streaming service to be available on electronics company LG’s Cinema 3D Smart internet-connected television sets.
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Marca TV acquires Spanish women’s football league rights
Marca TV, the digital terrestrial channel owned by Spanish commercial broadcaster La Sexta, acquired rights to the Primera Division Feminina, the top tier of the Spanish women’s football league, for t…
Court says Real Zaragoza breached Mediapro contract
A Spanish commercial court has said that Spanish Liga football club Real Zaragoza was in breach of contract for signing a three-year rights deal, from 2012-13 to 2014-15, with pay-television operator Prisa
Uefa finalises Europa League sales in Spain
Mediaset Spain, owner of Spanish commercial channels Telecinco and Cuatro, has acquired rights to the Uefa Europa League in a three-year deal from 2012-3 to 2014-15
Spanish basketball federation agrees deal with TVE
Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has agreed an exclusive rights deal with the Federación Española de Baloncesto, the Spanish basketball federation, beginning this year and running into 2014.