LaLiga Experience is back for another year. The project, designed to support LaLiga’s international broadcast rights holders, will begin on Matchday 9 of the LaLiga EA Sports season for the fixture between Granada CF and FC Barcelona. The initiative celebrates its eighth campaign, and provides TV partners with unique content and prizes for their viewers, […]
Rakuten TV has opened its new headquarters in Barcelona, which it calls “an important project for the company that has been created with its team in mind and with an environmental commitment”. The new Rakuten TV headquarters are located in the 22 district, an area where many technology companies are based. The project, designed alongside […]
Blu Digital Group, a specialist in media and entertainment digital media services and software, has announced the opening of a facility in Barcelona, Spain. Nestled within Rambla de Catalunya, the facility will extend the reach of Blu’s range of content distribution, localisation, post-production, and media management services. In addition, Ramon Martos Calvo has been recruited […]
Barça TV, the official channel of the Barcelona football team, will cease its transmissions on June 30th following its contract with Telefónica not being renewed. The channel is said to be hitting losses of €14 million every year, and will thus close down dismissing all of its 150 workers. The channel has been operating since […]
As the tech world gears up for Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona, industry experts predict that this marquee event will set the stage for the telecoms industry in 2023. The focus will be on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), 5G mobile, and Augmented Reality (AR), observes GlobalData, a data and analytics company. Emma […]
Movistar, Spain’s largest pay-TV platform Movistar, has acquired TV rights to the Supercopa (Super Cup) and Copa del Rey football tournamnets until 2025. Movistar will air the Supercopa from January 11th to 15th with matches played in South Arabia featuring Real Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Real Betis. Every season Movistar will also air 55 matches […]
Bars and restaurants in Spain with a Samsung Smart TV (from 2018 onwards) can now access the Bar TV app OTT with a live and VoD sports package. The app offers coverage of competitions such as La Liga Santander, La Liga SmartBank, UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, as well as including the DAZN […]
Gol Play will be offering a 24-hour stream on Twitch for this weekend’s first El Clásico of the season between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. The live stream can be followed from the afternoon of October 15th until 4 minutes before the October 16th kick-off.The streaming will feature the participation of popular streamers in Spain […]
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 […]
DAZN Group, the sports streaming platform, has secured rights to broadcast the Soccer Champions Tour 2022 in Japan, Italy and Canada, taking place from now until July 30th. Rights are exclusive in Japan and Italy, and non-exclusive in Canada. Matches taking place in Las Vegas, Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles streamed will be live […]