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Liga BBVA: Telefónica acquires the 2015-16 domestic audiovisual rights to FC Barcelona for €140m

FC Barcelona have sold the domestic audiovisual rights to their home games for the 2015-16 Liga BBVA, to Telefónica de Contenidos, a public limited company, which runs the pay-TV activities of the Spanish telecom group Telefónica, announced the Catalan club on 16/02/2015. The agreement also covers…
Domain(s): Media, Sponsors & Partners
• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs, Finance, …
• Article # 34330
• Published on 17/02/15 at 19:10
©  D.R.
Canada: beIN Sports channels are now available on the Shaw Direct satellite package

The pay-TV channel beIN Sports (in English) and beIN Sports ñ (in Spanish) were made available in Canada on the satellite TV platform Shaw Direct on 10/02/2015. Shaw Direct subscribers can watch these channels for free until 15/03/2015. Besides Shaw Direct, the Qatari beIN Media Group's channels…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies
• Article # 34255
• Published on 17/02/15 at 16:55
Germany: Eurosport acquires the rights to the FA Cup until the end of the 2017-18 season

The pay-TV group Eurosport acquired the exclusive audiovisual rights to the FA Cup for broadcast in Germany until the end of the 2017-18 season on 13/02/2015. These rights cover the broadcast on television and digital media (Internet, mobile), both live and delayed matches, highlights of these…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Rights Acquisitions
• Article # 34253
• Published on 17/02/15 at 11:07
©  FIFA
2026 World Cup: FIFA assigns the rights in the US (Fox / Telemundo) and Canada (Bell Media)

Domestic audiovisual rights to the 2026 World Cup were awarded by FIFA (Fédération international de football association) in the United States to the television groups Fox (for English) and Telemundo (NBCUniversal Group, Spanish) and In Canada, to the Bell Media group (English TV networks CTV and…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Finance, Rights Acquisitions, …
• Article # 34207
• Published on 16/02/15 at 17:44
©  LFP
Spain: 40 clubs and the League ask the government to accept the collective sale of TV rights

40 clubs and SADs (public limited sports companies) have signed the Spanish LFP's petition asking the Spanish government to ensure the quick adoption of the royal decree allowing collective marketing of domestic and international TV rights to Spanish professional competitions (Liga BBVA, Liga…
Domain(s): Media, Public Authorities & Regulations
• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs, Finance, …
• Article # 33915
• Published on 16/02/15 at 16:18
©  D.R.
Snapchat: a Sky News and Sky Sports channel has been launched on the application's Discover service

Snapchat, the photo and video sharing application, has partnered with the British pay-TV group Sky to launch a channel dedicated to Sky News (news channel) and Sky Sports (sports channel) on its Discover service which was launched on 27/01/2015, announced Sky on 11/02/2015. Sky News and Sky Sports…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Digital, Marketing - Communication
• Article # 34125
• Published on 16/02/15 at 10:27
Twitter: a turnover of €1.24bn in 2014, but a net loss of €510.8m

The social network Twitter achieved a 2014 turnover of €1.24bn, an increase of 111% compared to 2013, according to a report released by the company on 05/02/2015. This strong increase in revenues is mainly due to higher advertising revenues, which reached €1.1bn in 2014, an increase of 109.6…
Domain(s): Media, Sponsors & Partners
• Category(ies): Agencies, Digital, Finance
• Article # 33918
• Published on 13/02/15 at 16:30
YouTube: Liga BBVA is the most active major European league on Youtube with 3.5 million subscribers

The Liga BBVA is by far the most active league of the 5 major European leagues (Barclays Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A TIM, Liga BBVA and Ligue 1) on YouTube, the video hosting website, with 589,400,000 video views and 3.5 million subscribers, an average of 184,000 fans per club, according…
Domain(s): Clubs, Media
• Category(ies): Digital
• Article # 33643
• Published on 12/02/15 at 15:10
©  London Stock Exchange
2016-2019 TV rights to the Premier League: Sky shares fall (-4.6%) and BT's are up (+1.8%)

Sky plc.'s stock, listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), closed down 4.6% (at £9.10 or €12.26) on 10/02/2015, hours after the British pay-TV group announced it had acquired the domestic audiovisual rights, 126 Premier League games per season over the 2016-2019 period to £1.392bn / €1.88bn per…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs, Finance, …
• Article # 33889
• Published on 12/02/15 at 13:30
Premier League: details of the 2016-2019 domestic audiovisual rights lots acquired by Sky and BT

The British pay-TV group Sky plc. and BT Sport shared the seven lots (detailed below) of the main tender for domestic audiovisual rights to the 2016-2019 cycle of the Premier League, launched by the league on 12/12/2014 and 10/02/2015.Sky plc., owner of Sky Sports in the UK, acquired five of the…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies, Essentials Media
• Article # 33871
• Published on 12/02/15 at 12:46