Barça TV, the official channel of the Barcelona football team, will cease its transmissions on June 30th following its contract with Telefónica not being renewed. The channel is said to be hitting losses of €14 million every year, and will thus close down dismissing all of its 150 workers. The channel has been operating since […]
BBC Studios has announced its first international format license of STV Studios popular gameshow format, Bridge of Lies, to Spanish public broadcaster Televisión Española’s free to-air television channel, La 1. The high-stakes game show created by STV Studios will be produced in Spain by Boxfish. Television presenter Paula Vázquez will front the local version. Bridge […]
A proposed OTT ‘Netflix style’ service in Catalonian, backed by public broadcaster TV3, is attracting the interest of four TV groups, according to Vozpopuli: Spanish TV company Mediapro; Lavinia, along with Netxtre and Adsmurai; Euskaltel and Tyris; and Agile Content along with Optiva Media and Hiberus are the interested parties. The four groups are vying […]
Sports streaming platform DAZN has hired Spanish entrepreneur David Hatchwell to strengthen the position of the company in the highly competitive Spanish market. Hatchwell will work closely with DAZN management to identify expansion and new business opportunities in Spain. He will work as a strategic advisor to the CEO of DAZN, Shay Segev, working alongside […]
Vodafone Spain saw its revenues fall by 3.7 per cent to €875 million in the fourth fiscal quarter (January to March), which was still an improvement on the previous quarter when there was an 8.7 per cent decline. For the whole year, Vodafone posted a 5.7 per cent drop in revenues on the previosu year […]
The gap in the Spanish TV market between the country’s largest OTT services, Prime Video and Netflix, is getting smaller, with the former stepping on Netflix’s heels. Data from Barlovento Comunicación reveals that Netflix is the market leader with a penetration rate of 52.6 per cent, despite the 1 million subscribers lost through the anti-sharing […]
A study by Broadband Genie has explored the affordability of high-speed broadband around the globe. The study looked at 132 countries and compared the average salary to the average cost of high-speed internet, finding that access to affordable high-speed broadband is not universally available. The study took survey responses to determine the average salary and […]
Spanish telco Telefónica saw its profit fall by 57 per cent to €298 million even though revenues grew by 6.7 per cent to €10.04 billion in the first quarter of the year – with Brazil, Germany and UK being the best performing markets in terms of revenues with a growth of 17.5 per cent, 8 […]
Spanish telco provider, Cellnex Telecom, will have to pay a €13.7 million fine imposed by regulator CNMC for the abuse of its dominant position in the distribution of DTT signals. The Spanish court Audiencia Nacional has ratified the sanction after Cellnex’s appeal before the Supreme Court that obliged a recalculation of the fine amount. A […]
Tougher competition in the market had a negative impact on MásMóvil in the first quarter. The Spanish telco reported €57 million losses versus €40 million in the same period last year. Competition from local and regional operators such as Digi, Avatel and Finetwork affected MásMóvil, whose revenues only grew by 1 per cent to €740 […]