Spain

[ES] Code of Listed Sport Events

IRIS 1998-8:1/18

Alberto Pérez Gómez

Entidad publica empresarial RED.ES

The Plenary Meeting of the recently founded Committee for the Broadcasting of Sport Events ( Consejo para las emisiones y retransmisiones deportivas) (see Iris 1998-7:11) has published the Code of Listed Sport Events for the season 1998/1999. These events shall not be broadcast on pay-TV. The sports affected are football, cycling, basketball, track & field, handball, motorcycle racing and tennis. The Code indicates the number of events in each of these sports that must be broadcasted in free-access TV. The most controversial aspect is the broadcasting of the Spanish football league. It has been decided that one match will be broadcast on free-access TV on each competition day. Each team will be broadcast at home at least once, and no team can have a share of more than 25% of the matches broadcast in one season.


References

  • Resolución de 31 de Julio de 1998, de la Presidencia del Consejo para las Emisiones y Reptransmisiones Deportivas, por la que se ordena la publicación del Acuerdo del Consejo para las Emisiones y Retransmisiones Deportivas por el que se aprueba Catálogo de Competiciones o Acontecimientos Deportivos de Interés General.
  • Resolution of 31 July 1998, of the Committee for the Broadcasting of Sport Events, on the publication of the Code of Listed Events, BOE n. 203 of 25 August 1998, p. 29012.

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This article has been published in IRIS Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory.