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Mediapro’s Telefoot plays on; reports 600K subs

Football pay-TV channel Telefoot is to continue in business and is already claiming 600,000 subscribers. Jaume Roures, CEO of Chinese-Spanish group Mediapro, says he has no intention of exiting the deal it has to cover top flight football in France and has confirmed that conciliation talks with the French football league LFP are taking place. “We […]

October 21, 2020From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Mediapro wants to cut French football bill

Spanish TV group Mediapro wants to renegotiate down the price for France’s pay-TV football rights. In an interview with L’Equipe, Jaume Roures, CEO of Mediapro, explains that the company has urged a renegotiation of the contract signed two years ago as “it is clear that Covid-19 is affecting many aspects of the exploitation of the […]

October 8, 2020From David Del Valle in Madrid

Samanes appointed head of Mediapro Peru

Alejandro Samanes Prat has joined the Mediapro Group as head of Mediapro Peru. Samanes was the CEO in Latin America of the Secuoya Group, before which he managed Murcia regional television network; He was also the founder and CEO of Trece (13 TV) and General Director of the Spanish national network Popular TV. The incorporation […]

September 3, 2020

Free to distribute Téléfoot

Spanish TV group Mediapro has reached an agreement with French operator Free to distribute its new football TV channel Téléfoot. The deal comes following the group’s recent agreement swith SFR, Netflix and Bouygues. The four year deal will allow subscribers to Freebox ADSL and Fiber to watch Téléfoot. This is the latest step in Mediapro’s […]

August 27, 2020From David Del Valle in Madrid

Mediapro hosts Champions League final stages

UEFA has selected Mediapro Group as the host broadcaster for the production and distribution of the host signal for the final phases of the Champions League which, after the stoppage due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will bring together for the first time in its history the quarter-final and semi-final matches, in a single-match format, and […]

August 13, 2020

Mediapro teams up with TF1 for Telefoot

As of August 2020, for the long-awaited return of France’s premier football championship, La Ligue, French football will have a new home; the Telefoot channel. Content producer and rightsholder Mediapro Group and French commercial  broadcaster TF1 Group have signed what they say is an “unprecedented” agreement. This four-year, renewable partnership is based on three fundamental […]

June 2, 2020By Colin Mann