The English Premier League (EPL) is by far the most lucrative league globally. According to a Safebettingsites data presentation, the EPL generated €3.5 billion in broadcasting revenue in the 2021/22 season. This is more than Germany’s Bundesliga (€1.46 billion) and Spain’s La Liga (€2.04 billion) combined. Safebettingsite’s Edith Reads commented: “The English Premier League is […]
The European football market as a whole saw revenues grow by 10 per cent to €27.6 billion in 2020/21 (€25.2bn in 2019/20) despite an almost complete absence of fans from stadia during the season, according to the 31st Annual Review of Football Finance from Deloitte’s Sports Business Group. The strong recovery in revenue terms of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]