Spain: one game per week of Liga ASOBAL (handball) broadcast on GOL, free-TV channel of Mediapro

One game per week of Liga ASOBAL will be broadcast on GOL, the free-TV channel of the Chinese-Spanish audiovisual group Mediapro, indicated the organizing body of this championship on 20/08/2018. Abanca Ademar León-BM - Logroño La Rioja will be the first game broadcast on GOL on Sunday 09/09/2018 (16:00 CET).

Mediapro, the broadcaster of LaLiga Santander's one free-TV game per matching on GOL in 2018-19, has reached an agreement with LaLiga, which has acquired the rights to broadcast Liga ASOBAL in Spain for several seasons, starting in the 2018-19 season, on 26/07/2018. The games will be broadcast on LaLiga's free OTT platform to be launched in August 2018. A total of 130 games (championship, Cups, Spanish Super Cup) will be broadcast over the season.

• The Liga ASOBAL was broadcast, over the 2015-2018 cycle, via Movistar, pay television subsidiary of the Spanish telecommunications group Telefonica.
• Telefonica paid €700,000 euros per season for these rights.
• The new contract with LaLiga "is superior in quantity, duration and conditions" to that of Telefonica, said Adolfo…