The National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has once again asked LaLiga to impose limits. The possibility of bidding for football audio-visual rights in Spain for three seasons, After this requirement was ignored in the previous competition.
CNMC has now decided Bidding for an open match in Division One and a match in Division Two; also all rights to the Second Division and play-offs; broadcast in hotels, restaurants and cafes; as reported this Thursday, in addition to summaries.
The regulator warned that the proposal to commercialize football rights does not meet legal requirements. the requirements of the royal decree governing the process requests that the possibility of bidding for four and/or five seasons be eliminated.
Additionally, from LaLiga, among others objective criteria for assessing requirements when issuing lots and remove the restriction that only pay television operators can participate in some.
Not a new request
CNMC’s request to limit the process in LaLiga to three years is not new, as it was also requested when it was published last fall. a report on broadcast rights competition football, that the regulator wants to change the duration of contracts and limit them to three years. Finally, LaLiga decided to reward him for five years.
Recently, CNMC president Cani Fernández, In a public intervention, demanding that the Commission be relieved of the obligation to report each time a tender for the export of football rights is made, taking into account that they “did not pay any attention” and that these are very troublesome reports.
Conditions in Asia and the Pacific
Along with this report, the CNMC also endorsed another report it analyzed. Conditions recommended by LaLiga Marketing the audio-visual rights to the First Division and play-offs in certain countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
In it, the CNMC recommends preservation principles of promotion, transparency, competitiveness and non-discrimination, It does not include reservations, faculty or ownership of non-attributed rights, clarifies the terms of linear or non-linear broadcasting and does not distinguish between operators.
Likewise, the agency believes it is necessary to review Mediaduccion’s role as it is responsible for marketing and to consider the duration of contracts as “competitively in line”.