Mediapro

The Spanish division of Vodafone has confirmed it will not offer the full package of football content held by rival telco Telefónica stating the continuous rise in the cost of these rights makes it impossible …

Spanish telco Telefónica has sealed an agreement with the Mediapro agency to acquire rights for the Uefa Champions League and Europa League club football tournaments.

Chinese private equity firm Orient Hontai Capital has concluded its deal to acquire a majority stake in Spanish media group Imagina, parent company of the Mediapro agency.

LaLiga, the organising body of the top two divisions of Spanish club football, has reported revenue rises of 15 per cent and 30 per cent, respectively, for the sale of domestic and international rights packages to telco Telefónica and the Mediapro agency.

Ligue 1 sells domestic rights for €1.1

Italy’s Lega Serie A moved into private negotiations with broadcasters this week for rights to the next three seasons, from 2018-19 to 2020-21, having cancelled its contract with Mediapro.

Interview with Didier Quillot, chief executive of the Ligue de Football Professionnel, about the league’s new domestic media-rights deals for Ligue 1, from 2020-21 to 2023-24.

The Mediapro agency has been unveiled as the host broadcaster for the 2019 Pan American and Parapan American Games multi-sport event in Lima, Peru.

Lega Serie A and its media-rights adviser Infront are on a collision course with the Mediapro agency, which was appointed intermediary for the league’s domestic live rights, after the Spanish agency failed to meet this week’s deadline to pay its guarantee. 

Eleven Sports’ surprise entrance into the UK sports-rights market will have been welcomed by rights-holders around the world.

LaLiga has increased the value of its rights in 13 European and Asian markets by about 20 per cent in a single deal with the Advisers Media International agency.

Digital media specialists Perform this month agreed to pay an increase of about 30 per cent to retain Spanish LaLiga media rights across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Spain’s three major telcos have refused to match the Mediapro agency’s minimum asking price to carry coverage of the Uefa Champions League and Europa League, according to daily newspaper El País.

Imagina, parent company of the Mediapro agency, and Orient Hontai Capital have formally sealed a deal through which the Chinese private equity firm will acquire a majority stake in the Spanish media group.

Competition between sports-rights agencies has helped Spain’s LaLiga grow the value of its media rights in several new deals across Europe.

Spanish agency Mediapro said this week it wanted to create and distribute a Serie A league channel on the same model as the LaLiga channel it distributes in Spain. But Italian law may make this impossible.