Earlier this April, La Liga, Spain’s top flight football league, announced that it had awarded its production contracts to HBS (Host Broadcast Services) and TSA (Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales) – ending a decades-long production partnership with Mediapro. In response, Mediapro blasted La Liga’s “unprecedented” decision, claiming that it had tabled a superior bid that “exceeded the […]
On April 14th, Spain’s top flight football league La Liga announced that it had awarded its production contracts to HBS (Host Broadcast Services) and TSA (Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales) – ending a decades-long production partnership with Mediapro. Mediapro, the Spanish multimedia group, has now issued a heated respond to La Liga’s “unprecedented” decision, claiming that it […]
The Management Control Body for Audiovisual Rights at La Liga has ratified the decision made by executives from the various departments involved in the selection process for the companies that will manage the audiovisual production of LALIGA EA SPORTS, LALIGA HYPERMOTION, and related competition content for the next five seasons. The process, which began in […]
MotoGP has extended its long-term partnership with Sportian, the sports division of Globant. As the collective fightback against sports piracy continues, the partnership has achieved breakthrough results in removing illegal content. Since beginning its anti-piracy partnership with La Liga, co-founder of Sportian, over five years ago, MotoGP has been successful in tracking and removing illegal […]
A criminal family group in Malaga, in the south of Spain, dedicated to TV piracy, has been dismantled with the arrest of nine people who have defrauded an estimated €5 million+ in illegally distributing pay-TV signals. The group operated a chain of companies that was receiving and managing illegal payments from users to gain heavily-discounted […]
PEAK Sport Media, the agency, advisor and investor for the world of sports content, has made three key international hires across its sales and insights teams. Ed Fleet, formerly VP Football at sports technology and betting company Stats Perform, joins as Head of Sales, based at PEAK’s London office. Fleet brings with him seven-and-a-half years’ […]
La Liga’s crackdown on pirate streaming platforms is an unwanted impact on Movistar Plus+ and several Spanish football teams’ websites that are facing outages preventing fans from accessing services and buying game tickets. The websites of both Valencia and Girona football club experienced outages for several hours that in the latter case made it impossible […]
Google could be made to compensate La Liga, Telefónica and Mediapro as a result of La Liga football matches broadcast via illegal app, New Play, which sells advertising. Representatives of Google Ireland and Google Commerce Limited have been summoned to testify in court as Google is alleged to make a share of the ad revenue […]
As part of its ongoing commitment to protecting intellectual property rights, Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga has successfully blocked illegal broadcasts from the DazcFutbolios and RBTV77 platforms. These illegal platforms, which allowed the unauthorised broadcasting of football matches, operated via both website and app, utilising Cloudflare’s infrastructure to conceal their criminal activities alongside legitimate […]
Roja Directa, an illegal sports content website, has been sentenced to pay damages amounting to €31.6 million to Grup Mediapro for piracy of football content owned by the group. Commercial Court No. 2 in A Coruña has set the compensation Puerto 80 and its administrator, Igor Seoane, are required to pay Grup Mediapro for the […]