On May 14th the Spanish Parliament passed a new law concerning the sale of television rights in Spanish football. It establishes a collective distribution of the income from TV rights to reduce the current imbalances between how much La Liga’s small and large clubs receive. 92% of the rights will be allocated to professional football clubs: of that, 90% will go to first division clubs and 10% to second division clubs. The remaining 8% will be distributed as follows: 3.5% for teams which drop down a category, 2% for the RFEF, 1% for the Liga and 1.5% to help amateur football and top level athletes. Until now each club has negotiated these rights individually, unlike other European leagues which have a centralized sale.
Sources: europe1.fr, francetvsport.fr, tempsreel.nouvelobs.com, leprogres.fr, lemonde.fr, et l’equipe.fr
