TVE

Football

Telcos Orange and Vodafone have become the first two operators in the Spanish market to sublicense LaLiga content in the 2015-16 season from rival firm Telefónica, while public-service broadcaster TVE has agreed a deal for highlights rights.

Tennis

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has extended a rights deal for the Madrid Open tennis tournament for four years, from 2016 to 2019
Cycling

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has acquired rights for the Giro d’Italia and a number of other cycling races.

Football

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews the most-watched events of 2014 in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Handball

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE and UK pay-television broadcaster Sky have acquired rights for the 2015 men’s World Handball Championships in Qatar.

Basketball

José Antonio Sánchez, president of Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE, has outlined plans to strengthen sports channel Teledeporte after admitting the company was taken aback by public reaction to initial proposals to close the service.

José Antonio Sánchez, the new president of Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE, has halted a plan to close sports channel Teledeporte at the end of this year.

Basketball

The top basketball league in Spain, Liga ACB, earned a decent domestic rights fee increase in its renewal with public-service broadcaster TVE.

Basketball

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has renewed a rights deal for coverage of the ACB’s leading basketball competitions in the country.

Athletics

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in key European markets for last month’s European Athletics Championships

José Ramón Diez, the director of Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE, has confirmed that there is a plan in place to close sports channel Teledeporte at the end of this year.

Football

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has agreed a two-year rights deal with the country’s National Futsal League (LNFS).

Cycling

Mike Kiernan, Analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, looks at audiences in key European markets for the 2014 Tour de France

Basketball

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has acquired rights for the Spain national basketball team’s warm-up games ahead of the 2014 Fiba Basketball World Cup in the country.

Football

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE will not bid for the next cycle of media rights for football’s Uefa Champions League, according to daily newspaper El Mundo.

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE has announced that it will take its sports channel Teledeporte off digital-terrestrial television as part of cost-cutting plans.

Football

There were mixed results for broadcasters of the 2013-14 Uefa Champions League in Europe's big five markets, as Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence explains

Hockey

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV and Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE have acquired rights for the International Hockey Federation’s (FIH) 2014 Hockey World Cup national team tournament.