Football TV rights

Eurosport France wins rights to televise Italy’s Coppa Italia football competition in France.

The Discovery-owned pay-TV broadcaster will show action from the knockout competition for at least the remainder of the current season, after making a deal with the B4Capital agency. 

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Eleven Sports Network has announced a strategic partnership with Belgian broadcaster RTL, who will cover Live Serie A football. In addition to the Live Serie A TIM action on Club RTL, Belgian football fans will be able to watch Eleven's weekly European football review programme, Eleven United.

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Football satellite TV schedule

Portuguese football giant FC Porto has signed the huge TV broadcasting and advertising deal, breaking the previous record held by S.L. Benfica. 

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Football satellite TV schedule

After mega deal with S.L. Benfica, Portuguese media corporation NOS Audiovisuais have also signed a huge broadcast and sponsorship deal with Sporting Club de Portugal.

Under the deal, NOS will become the main sponsor of Sporting CP for the next 12 and a half sport seasons, beginning from Jan. 1. 2016, and the official broadcaster of the club's home games starting from 1st July 2018, for ten years, until the end of the 2027/28 soccer season.

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The deal covers broadcasting rights to Benfica’s home games in the Primeira Liga, as well as the rights to broadcast and distribute Benfica TV, the club’s official subscription channel. 

La Liga satellite TV coverage in Spain

Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica and the Liga de Fútbol Profesional (LFP), have announced a landmark €600 million broadcast rights deal and they will have ability to show every teams matches in the spanish top two divisions.

La Liga satellite TV schedule

For the first time broadcasting rights in Spain have been negotiated collectively. Previously, clubs were free to market their own rights, which presented a significant imbalance between the top two – Real Madrid and Barcelona – and the rest of La Liga and the Segunda División. Collective rights negotiations are standard across most of Europe, but had previously been blocked in Spain by those two clubs.

The deal covers the 2015/16 season only, but amount of €600 million is even not significant comparing it with the recent TV rights deal for the English Premier League.

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Football club FC Bayern Munich has agreed up with Yahoo Sports on a comprehensive global partnership. It is the fourth such partneship for the German football club since it opened its office in U.S. FC Bayern has previously identified the U.S. and China as core markets for its globalization efforts.