Liga de Fútbol Profesional (LFP)
Collective switch vindicated as LaLiga overtakes Serie A following income jump
Spain’s LaLiga has leapfrogged Italy’s Serie A in media rights income to become Europe’s second most valuable league following deals agreed in recent weeks.
Spain on the brink of collective Liga sales
Spanish football’s ongoing rights shake-up continued during a fortnight in which collective selling was brought forward by the league and Mediapro was appointed its international marketing partner.
Strikes, threats, and insults – but La Liga collective selling decree set to become law
The Royal Decree that paves the way for the collective selling of Spanish Liga media rights generated fallout – a week of strike threats, insults and posturing by all sides – which diverted attention from what remains a momentous change in Spanish football.
Barça extols collective selling benefits and switches rights to Telefónica
Spanish club Barcelona said this week that the planned return to collective selling would help La Liga to eventually match or exceed the media-rights income of Italy’s Serie A, but that it would require the country’s pay-television industry to be much stronger.
Tebas outlines Liga channel plan
The Spanish football league outlined plans to launch its own channel in 2016 at a panel discussion chaired by TV Sports Markets this month at Sportel in Monaco.
Ligue 1’s Ficot: The market has spoken, but our momentum is positive
The LFP believes the outcome of last week’s auction for the media rights to Ligue 1 was a moderate success, and that it could not have done much better given market conditions
Rights blitz gives Prisa a dilemma
Telefónica piles more pressure on Prisa with exclusive deals for Formula One and MotoGP in Spain
Sony Six’s January spending spree
In the increasingly competitive Indian pay-television market, Sony Six has begun 2014 on the front foot, snapping up prestigious properties in cricket, football, tennis and rugby...
Infront’s Bogarelli: Serie A will improve for TV ‘out of necessity’
Infront guarantees the future income of Serie A but rights-fee growth is in the hands of clubs
Liga fills the football gap for RCTI
La Liga fills the gap for RCTI in Indonesia
Pitch facing own channel dilemma as Al Jazeera stays away
Pitch International is exploring launching a premium football channel in Italy
Bundesliga changes tack to ‘follow the money’
Bundesliga says it will “follow the money” in its international TV rights sales