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.