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Spain: Mediapro launches BarTV

Spanish TV group Mediapro has launched OTT platform BarTV that will enable bars and restaurants to offer their customers La Liga matches, the European football competitions and other sports like Formula One and Moto GP. With the support of Mahou-San Miguel, the new sponsor for La Liga, BarTV allows hospitality businesses to reduce their pay-TV […]

August 17, 2022From David Del Valle in Madrid

Spain: Outage as DAZN debuts on Movistar

Technical failures at DAZN prevented many Movistar Plus subscribers in Spain from having access to the La Liga match on August 13th between Barcelona and Rayo Vallecano, one of the five matches broadcast by the streaming platform over the weekend. Subscribers could not connect to DAZN via Movistar Plus throughout the first half as a […]

August 15, 2022From David Del Valle in Madrid

ITV scores La Liga deal

ITV will broadcast La Liga football in a new three season deal. Games from the top-flight Spanish league will be broadcast live and exclusively free to air across ITV, ITV4 and ITV Hub. From this current season up to and including 2024/25, ITV has secured the UK rights to 10 matches per season, with either […]

August 15, 2022By Nik Roseveare

La Liga signs highlights deal with WSC Sports

WSC Sports, a global player in AI sports video technology, has announced an agreement with La Liga, the top flight Spanish football league, to innovate the league’s global digital strategy with automatically created and distributed real-time video highlights of all first and second division matches during the 2022/23 football season. Utilising advanced AI and Machine […]

August 11, 2022

Vodafone Spain back with tier 2 football

Three years after it had given up on offering La Liga football, Vodafone Spain will this season broadcast all matches from La Liga Smartbank – the La Liga’s second division. It will distribute the content with its sports package (Pack Deportes) at €5 a month including all second division matches. Subscribers will be able to […]

August 8, 2022From David Del Valle in Madrid

Spain: 79 pirate sites face takedown

Following La Liga and Movistar’s obtaining of a court order requiring the takedown of pirate TV websites 79 have been identified across different technologies (IPTV, Streaming) that are likely to be blocked. Among them are Acestream.org, Arenavision.site, rojadirectatvenvivo, ovostreams.com, iptvparatodos.app, and Torrent. There are pirate IPTV services that have M3U computer file lists to have […]

August 5, 2022From David Del Valle in Madrid

Spain: 3hr limit for pirate site takedown

Spanish telco Telefónica and the country’s top flight football league La Liga have won two legal battles, with courts ruling that websites pirating TV content will have to be blocked within three hours of the operator reporting them as being illegal. This will be carried out on a weekly basis and will come into force […]

August 4, 2022From David Del Valle in Madrid

Spain: Football price war intensifies

Multiplay telcos Telefónica and Orange Spain have become embroiled in a new TV football price war, with discounts of up to 25 per cent from the former or €15 a month from the latter. Both are fighting for premium subscribers who usually spend over €90 a month for convergent packages, including football. Telefónica is offering […]

August 1, 2022From David Del Valle in Madrid

Viaplay acquires Premier Sports

In a move that accelerates its entry into UK, ahead of the launch of the Viaplay streaming service in the country this autumn, streaming platform operator Viaplay Group is to acquire UK sports streamer and TV channel operator Premier Sports. The transaction values Premier Sports at £30 million (€35.2m) on a cash and debt-free basis. […]

July 21, 2022By Colin Mann

Spain: Orange nets all La Liga in Movistar/DAZN deal

Orange Spain has reached an agreement with Movistar and DAZN to offer all La Liga matches, and the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europe Conference League tournaments. Orange subscribers will be able to watch 10 football matches from La Liga every week (38 weeks) and all matches from the European competitions. The deal means  Movistar […]

July 12, 2022From David Del Valle in Madrid