In partnership with Munich-based sports media advisory SN1, the Spanish Basketball Clubs Association (ACB) has awarded to Sportdigital the broadcasting rights for ACB competitions (Supercopa, Liga Endesa and Copa del Rey) in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein for the remaining 2024-25 season and the full 2025-26 season. The agreement covers the broadcast rights for live […]
Five per cent of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) saw a 0.2 Mbps increase, 70 per cent remained the same, and 25 per cent experienced a decrease of 0.2 to 0.6 Mbps this month on the Netflix ISP Speed Index – a monthly update on which ISPs provide the best prime-time Netflix streaming experience. Three countries […]
A new nationwide TV channel, Squirrel, has launched on Spain’s DTT, replacing Disney Channel which closed down on January 6th. Owned by Squirrel Media Group, Squirrel is a cinema and TV series channel offering classic and just released movies with at least ten film titles airing every day. Squirrel Media Group also operates BOM Cine […]
Spanish TV group Atresmedia and TelevisaUnivision have partnered to launch bring the latter’s ViX streaming service to Spain. From January, ViX will be available via Atresmedia’s streaming platform Atresplayer under subscription and with no advertising. Subscribers will gain access to 15,000 hours of premium content including original TV series, cinema, live sports, and soup operas […]
OneGate Media has announced the launch of its Spanish Crime AVoD YouTube channel, Crime Para Mí. Expanding OneGate Media’s multichannel network which features over 50 AVOD channels, Crime Para Mí features a library of true crime series in Spanish, including the multi-season crime series Asesinato en el Norte. OneGate Media will continue to expand the […]
SkyShowtime, the European streaming service, has announced a partnership with Spanish telco MasOrange. The deal, which commences immediately, is SkyShowtime’s latest distribution deal with a TV provider in Spain and will make SkyShowtime the most widely distributed streaming service within the MasOrange portfolio. MasOrange customers will be able to access a seamless entertainment experience across […]
Nearly three-quarters (73.2 per cent) of young adults (ie those aged 18-24 years old) in Spain watch pirate SVoD content, according to a report from consultancy firm GECA. The report reveals that piracy is a common practice in the country, with 45.4 per cent of people having access to illegal content. Movies (32.4 per cent), […]
Romanian telco operator DIGI has launched its pay-TV service in Spain offering over 100 TV channels for €7 a month. Combined fibre optic broadband and pay-TV will cost €17 a month, or current FTTH subscribers can just pay an additional €7 for the TV service. DIGI TV will offer cinema, TV series, sports, documentariesm music […]
Audiovisual fraud is a criminal activity that results in significant losses in value for sporting competitions around the world, with a specific value loss between €600 million and €700 million in the case of Spanish football, an industry which employs more than 190,000 people and which contributes around €8,400 million to the Spanish economy, the […]
José Pablo López has been appointed as the president of Spain public broadcaster RTVE. His inauguration will take place on December 2nd. Until March 2024 he served as Director of General Content at the public broadcaster, but the controversial recruitment of comedian David Broncano to lead the late night talk show La Recuelta led to […]