2019-2022 LaLiga TV rights: Telefonica acquires LaLiga 1|2|3; online summaries to Mediapro

The telecom operator Telefonica has acquired the broadcasting rights, in Spain and Andorra, exclusively for pay-TV to all 462 games per season of the LaLiga 1|2|3, as well as the six promotion play-off games per season (without exclusivity) to this second division, for the 2019-2022 period, on 21/12/2018. The amount for this lot would be €15m per year according to Spanish press.

The audiovisual group Mediapro has acquired the rights for 90-second mini-summaries of each match of the first and second divisions, exclusively for internet broadcast.

On 11/12/2018, LaLiga awarded four unallocated lots of its tender for the domestic (Spain and Andorra) audiovisual rights to the LaLiga Santander and LaLiga 1|2|3 for the 2019-2022 period. This tender was initially launched on 28/05/2018, with four lots awarded to Telefonica and Mediapro for €1.14bn per season, on 25/06/2018 (see lot details below). The two lots exclusively for free-to-air broadcast (Lots 1 and 3) have still not been awarded because "none of the offers approached the floor price," stated LaLiga on 21/12/2018.

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