Orange has reached an agreement with Movistar that will allow the French operator to broadcast Spain’s Supercopa matches. Orange will add the Movistar Supercopa TV channel to its line-up and will broadcast three Supercopa matches between January 12th and 16th at no extra cost for football subscribers.  The matches will be also available to bars […]

Some 32.2 million Spaniards have a pay-TV service, representing 82.8 per cent of the country’s population, with 59.8 per cent subscribing to at least two different platforms. The latest figures from consultancy Barlovento Comunicacion reveal that each Spaniard has access to an average of 2.7 platforms. Netflix is the leading service with an average share […]

Orange Spain is to negotiate with Movistar and DAZN, successful bidders of La Liga rights for the next five years, in order to continue offering pay-TV football to its customers. “Football is very important for our TV offer,” declared Jean François Fallacher, CEO of Orange. “We will negotiate with both companies.” Orange Spain has been […]

Spain’s premier football league La Liga has concluded the tender for the national market broadcast rights of La Liga Santander in Spain and Andorra for the period between 2022/2023 and 2026/2027. For a total of €4.95 billion over the coming five-season period, Movistar will broadcast a total of five matches per matchday plus three full […]

Streaming platforms in Spain will be exempted from paying the 0.9 per cent RTVE tax until 2023 as the Administration has put the amendment on hold for one year. Instead, traditional pay-TV players – such as Movistar, Vodafone and Orange – will have to pay up to €128 million in 2022 to finance the public […]

Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO and other global streaming platforms will not have to meet the 6 per cent previously reported regional language obligation as they are not domiciled in Spain. The Spanish cabinet approved a new TV law stating that pay-TV platforms will have to dedicate a minimum 6 per cent of their […]

SVoD services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and HBO Max, among others, will have to produce 6 per cent of their TV content in Spain in other co-official languages in the country – Catalonian, Galician or Basque language. The measure has been agreed by the Central Administration and the Catalonian party ERC to approve the […]

Spain’s three largest telcos – Movistar, Orange and Vodafone – control 74.5 per cent of the total revenues in the market, albeit three points below last year. Between April and June, the Spanish telco market reported €5;74 billion in revenues, according to the CNMC, with the largest operators taking 74.5 per cent. Mobile services made […]

Vodafone Spain has seen its revenues grow by 2.1 per cent in the first fiscal half of 2021 to €2.09 billion, largely driven by the the sale of phones and devices as revenues per service fell by 0.6 per cent to €1.86 billion. Low cost offers and promotions caused revenues per service to fall and […]

Some 83.1 per cent of Spaniards have access to pay-TV, up 2.2 per cent in the last quarter, with 58.3 per cent watching at least two different pay-TV platforms, according to a report from consultancy firm Barlovento Comunicación. On average, every Spanish household has access to 2.6 platforms. Netflix leads the market with a 59.9 […]