Telefónica

Football

The Spanish division of telco Orange will not bid for domestic rights to Spain's LaLiga in order to avoid price inflation, the company's chief executive Jean-François Fallacher has said.
Football

Domestic broadcast deals of just three years in length restrict LaLiga from increasing competition for the rights, according to league president Javier Tebas, who is looking to match the value of the current…
Formula 1
Media

Telecoms operator Telefónica is set to appeal against a ruling from Spain’s competition watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), after being ordered to alter the terms of …
Motorsport

Spain’s competition watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), has ordered Telefónica to alter the terms of its agreement with OTT subscription broadcaster DAZN so that it …
Football

Orange has renewed its agreement with Telefónica in Spain for carriage of the latter's Movistar LaLiga and Movistar Liga de Campeones channels, ensuring that LaLiga and Uefa club competitions remain available …
Football

LaLigaSportsTV, the OTT streaming platform of LaLiga, has signed a carriage deal with pay-television broadcaster Movistar Plus
Multi-sport

Spanish telco Telefónica has failed with a renewed application to Spanish competition watchdog, the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), to lift an obligation it has to share rights t…
Multi-sport

The ‘carriage’ agreement between OTT subscription platform DAZN and telco Telefónica has deepened broadcaster power in Spain, creating an effective duopoly with the widest subscriber base and deepest pockets in Spain.
Motorsport

DAZN, the OTT subscription platform, and telco Telefónica have signed a sprawling alliance that could change the face of Spain’s sports broadcasting landscape, beginning with an exclusive sublicensing de…
Multi-sport

Spanish telco Telefónica has reported a small fall in Spanish pay-television subscribers but has expressed confidence in its future financial stability thanks to reductions in recent premium sports rights …
Formula 1

Spanish telco Telefónica will hold steady its per-year outlay on Formula One rights in its renewal for the 2021-23 cycle, SportBusiness Media understands.
Basketball

Spanish telco Telefónica has agreed to pay a modest per-season uplift to renew its exclusive NBA rights in Spain for the 2020-23 cycle, SportBusiness Media understands.
Motorsport

Spanish telco Telefónica has renewed its exclusive rights to Formula 1 in Spain for a further three years.
Basketball

Spanish telco Telefónica will pay an unchanged fee to renew its rights to the nation’s top tier of domestic basketball after agreeing a three-season extension with the Liga ACB.
Basketball

Telecoms operator Telefónica has renewed its NBA broadcast rights in Spain for a further three-season cycle, taking the pair’s relationship to 25 years.
Basketball

Spanish telecoms operator Telefónica has renewed its exclusive domestic broadcast rights agreement with Liga ACB, the top tier of Spanish basketball, for another three seasons.
Multi-sport

The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia’s (CNMC) decision to extend telco Telefónica’s content-sharing requirement until at least 2023 will limit the extent of the telco’s Spanish market dominance. But many of its rivals are still calling for a comprehensive review into the telco’s position.
Multi-sport

Spanish telco Telefónica will have to make its premium sports channels available to competitors for three more years after Spain’s competition watchdog extended the requirement until at least 2023.