Spanish rights broker, Mediapro, is launching a new football channel, Gol TV, via France Telecom's IPTV platform Orange TV, Variety reports. Click to continue reading...

He's been called President Pinocchio, Tourettes and Motormouth (that last one's mine), but if there has been one person on Ramón Calderón's case since he became Real Madrid president, that is José Antonio Abellán, a journalist and presenter of the popular late-night radio sports programme El Tirachinas. Click to continue reading...

As we've been blogging here all week, the legal spat between Mediapro and Sogecable broadcast rights has begun to heat up even further and threatens the rest of the season. 58 million euros is said to already be owed by Mediapro to Sogecable for last year's matches and now a further claim of 200 million is being disputed because of a breach of contract during last week's matches where 3 games were "pirated" to free-over-air television by Mediapro on their channel La Sexta, to which Sogecable is stating that they did not have the rights to air(1). Click to continue reading...

Due to "The Television Wars" in Spain, Sunday's match between Racing Santander and Barcelona was another casualty of the fight between Audiovisual Sport and Mediapro causing the big game to be blacked out around the world.

Closer to home, the match wasn't shown on GolTV either. Neither was the Saturday game between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. Click to continue reading...

Viewers in the United States and around the world were upset this weekend after the scheduled clash between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid was not shown on TV. In the United States, GolTV showed the Bayern Munich against Hannover match instead of the Madrid derby.

The reason the Madrid derby wasn't shown worldwide was due to a dispute between Audiovisual Sport and Mediapro in Spain. Click to continue reading...