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Basketball

Euroleague Ventures – the joint venture between Euroleague Basketball and the IMG agency –secured a robust price from sports streaming service DAZN for the 2019-20 to 2022-23 rights cycle in Spain despite an initially unpromising market outlook, SportBusiness Media understands.
Football

Spain’s Mediapro agency and public broadcaster TVE will likely try again to acquire LaLiga’s two unsold domestic free-to-air rights packages for the 2019-20 to 2021-22 cycle, SportBusiness Media understands.
Football

Spanish football club Real Madrid has reportedly opted not to renew its long-running partnership with the Mediapro agency for its in-house television channel
Motorsport

Spanish telco Telefónica’s Movistar Plus platform has announced the acquisition of exclusive rights in the country to US motor-racing series IndyCar.
Football

Spanish telco Vodafone has called for the country’s competition authority to reform content-sharing regulations, which force Telefónica to share 50 per cent of its premium content.
Football

LaLiga, which operates the top two divisions of Spanish football, has completed two media-rights deals following a second round of sales for the 2019-20 to 2021-22 cycle.
Golf

US media group Discovery has announced its latest wide-ranging golf partnership with the European Tour, commencing in 2019, acquiring rights in selected markets to all European Tour events and the next…

DAZN’s willingness to pay an increased rights fee – and its low price point for consumers – were the crucial factors in its successful bid for MotoGP rights in Spain this month. DAZN
Football

Streaming platform DAZN’s impending launch in Spain helped the English Premier League to another great result for its media rights in the country. DAZN will pay about €23m ($27.2m)
Football

Spanish telco Telefónica added 101,000 television customers in the quarter leading to September on the back of its acquisition of a number of football rights.

Spanish telco Telefónica has launched an OTT service in Argentina.

Movistar Plus, the pay-television platform of Spanish telco Telefónica, has acquired rights to the Segunda Division, the second tier of domestic football, and has also added France’s Ligue 1 to its li…
Football

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 …
Football

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.

Motorsport

Increased exclusivity encouraged telco Telefónica to maintain its fee to renew Formula One media rights in Spain this month despite a dearth of competition.

Football

Telecommunications company Telefónica is to add mobile football content to its service offering in Brazil and Chile.
Motorsport

Mike Kiernan reviews television audiences across the big five markets for the recently concluded Formula One World Championship
Motorsport

Will Partington, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences for motorcycling’s MotoGP World Championship in selected European markets.