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Movistar Plus grows TV subs by 6.4%

Movistar Plus ended H1 2025 with 3.67 million television subscribers, marking a 6.4 per cent year-on-year increase and 224,000 new customers. The platform’s all-time record was set in June 2019, according to The Objective, with 4.11 million subscribers, closing that year with 4.07 million. Numbers then declined to 3.93 million in 2020 (–3.4 per cent), […]

August 5, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid

La Liga strengthens Asia expansion

La Liga has signed an exclusive deal with Begin, the OTT service in Southeast Asia, to broadcast all first and second division matches through 2030 in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The agreement takes effect immediately in Pakistan and Bangladesh, while coverage in Sri Lanka will begin with the 2026–2027 season. The deal will run […]

July 25, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid

Arrests in Argentina La Liga piracy case

In a new key step in the fight against audiovisual fraud, Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga and ALIANZA Against Piracy have announced a decisive legal action in Argentina, involving five simultaneous raids and multiple arrest warrants issued by the courts in the framework of a major case against the illegal platform MagisTV — one […]

July 25, 2025By Colin Mann

Spain: All football for €9.99 on DAZN

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, is making an aggressive assault on the Spanish pay-TV football market with the launch of its promotional Football Plan offer for €9.99 per month. DAZN’s new Football Plan will include: Five La Liga matches per matchday (across 35 of the 38 matchdays) One free-to-air La Liga match every matchday Every […]

July 18, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid

Spain: Record-breaking pay-TV audiences

Pay-TV in Spain ended the 2024/2025 season (September 20th 2024 to June 30th 2025) with record-setting numbers. According to the latest GECA report, pay thematic channels have reached an all-time high audience share of 11.3 per cent – the best figure ever recorded in a regular season. It represents a 70 per cent increase compared […]

July 8, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid

Movistar Plus+ expands Spanish Football Super Cup rights

Movistar Plus+ will continue to be the home of the Spanish Football Super Cup in Spain after extending its exclusive agreement with the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for the next three years (2025-28). This renewal reinforces the collaboration between the RFEF and Movistar Plus+ in this competition that, since 2020, has been held under […]

June 27, 2025

La Liga CEO: “We’ve reduced piracy by 60% in Spain”

LALIGA Extratime, La Liga’s own annual sports industry event, took place at The Meliá Kuala Lumpur hotel last week. La Liga CEO, Javier Tebas, opened the event with a speech that emphasised the importance of the fight against audiovisual fraud. Piracy causes global losses in terms of new revenues of more than 28 billion dollars […]

June 24, 2025

Mediapro cutting jobs following La Liga TV loss

Spanish TV company Mediapro is set to cut up to 169 jobs due to production-related reasons following the loss of its La Liga TV production rights, now held by the Swiss company HSB. The job redundancy plan will affect employees mainly involved in match coverage, commentary, highlights and other related services which will no longer […]

June 18, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid

La Liga, SFBT launch LALIGA Club in China

La Liga has formalised an agreement with SFBT (Spanish Football Blockchain Technology) to roll out technological project LALIGA Club in China for the new season. LALIGA Club community is a Web3-based Fan Engagement Platform, integrating both online and offline infrastructures to create a community-driven fan experience. This platform enables fans to connect, interact and grow […]

May 30, 2025

Mediapro strike puts La Liga TV matches at risk

Around 800 workers from Mediapro – the Spanish production group responsible for broadcasting La Liga and La Liga 2 – have been called to strike during the final match days of the season, putting TV transmissions at risk. Trade Unions have warned of the fact that the Swiss company HBS, the new producer of La […]

May 9, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid