By year end, Spain will launch the last 5G licence auction on the 26 GHz frequency with an overall reserve price of €105 million. In the auction, 12 licences will be awarded on a national level (2,400 MHz) and 38 licences on a regional scale (400 MHz) in 200 MHz blocks for a 20-year period, […]

Illegal DTT channels are proliferating in Andalusia, a Spanish region in the south of country, with 55 stations broadcasting prohibited content. The Andalusian Audiovisual Council (CAA) has warned of the danger of these television services that, besides the unfair competition to the 65 legal TV channels, broadcast content breaking TV legislation. The CAA notes that […]

Spain’s largest telcos – Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone – have thrown themselves into another price fight, this time over FTTH 1Gbps. Telefónica is offering 1Gbps fibre for €29.90 a month for nine months, including installation, router, phone-line fee and with unlimited calls. After that period, the price will be €50 a month. Vodafone is pitching […]

Spain’s TV ad revenues amounted to €1.54 billion in 2021, a little better than 2020’s €1.42 billion, but 8 per cent less than €1.67 billion in 2019 – before the pandemic – according to the latest data from the CNMC. The figure is a similar to 2014’s €1.51 billion. But forecasts are now gloomy as […]

Gol Play, the Spanish sports TV network, is set to show one free-to-air match from the Women’s Professional League each match day, as well as highlights packages.Mediapro has acquired the broadcast rights which will allow Gol Playviewers to watch the Women’s Primera División, the top flight women’s football league in Spain, with all the action […]

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has warned of the risk of DTT disappearing in its free distribution model, and has joined the lobby group for FTA DTT: Call To Europe Project, formed by over 40 organisations, to lobby for the maintenance of the radio spectrum to guarantee DTT frequencies beyond 2030. RTVE director of Audiovisual Policies, […]

RUNTIME, an independent cinema and TV series FAST platform, has gone live in Spain with 10 linear channels and over 1,000 VoD titles. Seven linear channels will be specifically dedicated to cinema (action, comedy, horror, romance, classic cinema, among different categories) and three to TV series, including RTVE titles such as Ana y los 7 […]

Channel 4 has recommissioned crime-comedy caper The Curse for a second season. Written by the combined multi-BAFTA award-winning partnership of Tom Davis and director James De Frond (Murder in Successville, King Gary), along with Steve Stamp, Allan Mustafa, Hugo Chegwin (People Just Do Nothing) and Emer Kenny (Pramface). The series is produced by Shiny Button, […]

GOL has rebranded as GOL PLAY. The free-to-air sports channel in Spain is also strengthening its programming schedule by adding new fiction and entertainment content such as series, films and documentaries. The new content will be aired in the slots where there is no live content. GOL PLAY will continue to offer free-to-air sports coverage […]

Spain has approved a public fund of €116 million to boost 5G advanced and 6G under the framework of Unico I + D. This year, the Administration will award €86 million to those projects that rely on 5G+ and 6G to implement services. The remaining €30 million will be granted in 2023. This is the […]