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| Mediapro Grup | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Media rights management |
| Founded | April 1994; 30 years ago (1994-04) |
| Founder | Jaume Roures Tatxo Benet Gerard Romy |
| Headquarters | , Spain |
Area served | Spain,Portugal |
Key people | Tatxo Benet (CEO) |
| Revenue |  1.967 billion € (2018) |
| 91 million € (2013) | |
| 122 million € (2013) | |
Number of employees | 8,219 |
| Parent | Imagina Media Audiovisual, S.L. |
| Website | www.mediapro.tv |
Mediaproducción, S.L.U., better known asMediapro, is a multimedia communications group inSpain founded in April 1994[1] inBarcelona. The company is well involved in movie and television production.[2]
The company holds branch offices inMadrid,Seville,Girona,Lisbon,Madeira,Rabat,Budapest,Miami,Buenos Aires,Santa Cruz de la Sierra,Rio de Janeiro,Porto,Qatar,Amsterdam, andTenerife.
Southwind, that maintains different teams and operation entities across Hong Kong, North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom is the majority shareholder. Minority stakes held by WPP and the founding partner.[3][4]
On 21 February 2019, Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) announced that Mediapro would serve as the exclusive media rightsholder ofCanada Soccer, including rights to theCanadian Premier League, theCanadian Championship, and national team matches.[5] In April, Mediapro announcedOneSoccer, a subscription service that would carry this content.[6][7]
On 25 January 2024, CSB withdrew media and broadcast rights from Mediapro and initiated legal action against the group, citing missed rights payments and insufficiently reach of sub-licensing agreements withlinear television networks to broaden the reach of its content. Mediapro countered with arguments that CSB did not meet its own obligations, including expansion of the Canadian Premier League.[8] CSB and Mediapro later reached a settlement, in which Mediapro would be allowed to back out of its contract with CSB at the end of 2024, and OneSoccer would be divested to a company controlled by one of CSB's chairmen.[9][10]
On 29 May 2018,Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) announced that Mediapro had acquired four of the five main lots for media rights toLigue 1 andLigue 2 for2020–21 through2023–24 seasons.[11][12][13] Mediapro partnered withTF1 Group to form a new channel known asTéléfoot to hold these rights.[14][15] In December 2020, after missing two rights payments early in its first season (citing a desire to renegotiate the contract due to the financial impact of theCOVID-19 pandemic), Mediapro and the LFP agreed to exit the contract.[16]
On January 20, 2022, CNDC orderedThe Walt Disney Company to divest theFox Sports television network from theacquisition of 21st Century Fox in order to get an approval from the government of Argentina.[17] On February 15, 2022, Mediapro announced it would acquire Fox Sports Argentina from Disney.[18] The sale was approved by the CNDC on April 27, 2022.[19]
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