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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

Mediapro “regrets and retracts” La Liga attack

Earlier this April, La Liga, Spain’s top flight football league, announced that it had awarded its production contracts to HBS (Host Broadcast Services) and TSA (Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales) – ending a decades-long production partnership with Mediapro. In response, Mediapro blasted La Liga’s “unprecedented” decision, claiming that it had tabled a superior bid that “exceeded the […]

April 28, 2025

Mediapro blasts La Liga snub

On April 14th, Spain’s top flight football league La Liga announced that it had awarded its production contracts to HBS (Host Broadcast Services) and TSA (Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales) – ending a decades-long production partnership with Mediapro. Mediapro, the Spanish multimedia group, has now issued a heated respond to La Liga’s “unprecedented” decision, claiming that it […]

April 15, 2025

La Liga completes selection process for AV production providers

The Management Control Body for Audiovisual Rights at La Liga has ratified the decision made by executives from the various departments involved in the selection process for the companies that will manage the audiovisual production of LALIGA EA SPORTS, LALIGA HYPERMOTION, and related competition content for the next five seasons. The process, which began in […]

April 14, 2025

MotoGP extends Sportian partnership

MotoGP has extended its long-term partnership with Sportian, the sports division of Globant. As the collective fightback against sports piracy continues, the partnership has achieved breakthrough results in removing illegal content. Since beginning its anti-piracy partnership with La Liga, co-founder of Sportian, over five years ago, MotoGP has been successful in tracking and removing illegal […]

March 21, 2025By Colin Mann

Spain: Police bust major TV piracy group in Malaga

A criminal family group in Malaga, in the south of Spain, dedicated to TV piracy, has been dismantled with the arrest of nine people who have defrauded an estimated €5 million+ in illegally distributing pay-TV signals. The group operated a chain of companies that was receiving and managing illegal payments from users to gain heavily-discounted […]

March 17, 2025From David Del Valle in Madrid