Spanish media company Mediapro, operator of Gol TV, has "beaten media group Prisa in their long-running dispute over football TV rights in the country," according to David Del Valle of ADVANCED TELEVISION. Spain's Supreme Court has exonerated Mediapro from paying €105M ($119M) to Prisa after "overruling a previous decision taken by a lower Court which had ordered it to pay that amount for breach of the contracts" signed in '06 between both parties. Now the Supreme Court has accepted Mediapro's appeal on the grounds that the agreement between both companies is "null and void." The war "broke out when Prisa cut the signal to Mediapro clients" in '07. Mediapro will only have to pay Prisa €32M ($36M) for the '06-07 season (ADVANCED TELEVISION, 2/6). In Madrid, Raúl Piña reported it is "the final whistle in the football war." It was ruled that the original agreement signed in '06 "infringed on free competition laws." Despite this ruling, "the last word in this war has not been spoken." In the upcoming weeks, the Int'l Chamber of Commerce in Paris "will resolve the controversy over the costs of the acquisition" of Spanish Football League (LFP) rights from the '12-13, '13-14 and '14-15 seasons. This is "the agreement Canal+ and Mediapro reached in July '13" (EL MUNDO, 2/5).
