The Spanish Administration is set to block Vocento’s sale of its two DTT licences to Squirrel Capital and put them up for auction, according to Spanish daily The Objective. The Spanish government will reportedly refuse to give its go-ahead to the sale on the grounds that the licences are public with the strategy preventing operators […]
Netflix’s Spanish series Money Heist led the Whip Watch Report of streaming originals among Spanish viewers for the week of November 29th – December 5th. The fifth and final season of the global hit debuted on December 3rd and also ranked #1 on the Whip Watch Reports for Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, and UK. The […]
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 […]
Squirrel Media has acquired two nationwide DTT licences, currently used by Disney and Paramount, from media group Vocento for €18 million. With the move, Squirrel Media will control 55 per cent of Vocento’s Net TV and 100 per cent of Veralia Distribución. Squirrel Media has also proposed The Walt Disney Company Iberia to take part […]
Netcracker Technology has announced that Vodafone Spain will upgrade to Netcracker Digital BSS as part of an overall IT transformation project. The telecommunications company requires a more advanced and real-time solution to support its B2C and B2B customers across both fixed and wireless lines of business. Vodafone Spain will upgrade from a previous version of […]
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 […]
HBO Max has reached a 4.9 per cent penetration rate in Spain since launching in October, becoming the third most widely watched SVoD service in the country, according to Smartme Analytics cited by online publication Marketing Digital. HBO Max has tripled the number of subscribers that HBO España (the service it effectively replaces) had in […]
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 […]
beIN Sports, the international distribution partner of the LFP (Ligue de Football Professionnel) has announced a number of new international broadcast partners have come on-board since the arrival of Lionel Messi to the French top flight. The arrival of the six-time Ballon d’Or winner to Paris Saint-Germain has already shown a growth in viewing numbers […]