Mansha Daswani

Telefónica has won the battle for the bulk of the broadcast rights to La Liga football in Spain.

Actor and producer Will Smith has teamed up with director Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, World War Z) to buy the German distribution outfit Telepool, the parent company of Global Screen.

ProSiebenSat.1 Media and Discovery have announced plans to combine their streaming assets in Germany to create a new platform, bringing together 7TV, maxdome and Eurosport Player and inviting other local broadcasters to participate.

BT has become the first U.K. pay-TV provider to incorporate Amazon Prime Video in its set-top boxes.

Entertainment, factual and kids led U.K. exports in 2016/17, according to Pact, with total revenues from U.K. content sales reaching £902 million.

Endemol Shine Group has reportedly hired Deutsche Bank and Liontree to find a buyer for 21st Century Fox's and Apollo Global Management's stakes in the company.

Wattpad, the social network for readers and writers, has tapped Bavaria Fiction as its production partner for German-speaking markets.

SPI International's Kino Polska TV is now the majority shareholder of the Polish DTT movie channel Stopklatka, acquiring Agora's 41-percent interest for a total stake of 82.6 percent.

MTG's Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) has picked up the remaining 4 percent it didn't already own of digital video network and online media house Splay and is merging the company with its branded-content outfit, Nice One.

The Premier League has wrapped the sales process for live rights in the U.K. from 2019 to 2022, with the remaining two packages going to Amazon and BT Sport.