http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-10/real-madrid-barcelona-will-have-tv-revenue-limited-by-law.html
Real Madrid and Barcelonas television revenue, which helps make them the worlds richest soccer clubs, will be limited under a new Spanish law.
The teams, with combined annual sales of 1 billion euros ($1.36 billion), wont be able to receive more than four times as much broadcast income as the smallest of the 20 clubs in Spains La Liga under the legislation, league president Javier Tebas said in an e-mail today.
Real Madrid and Barcelona wont be happy if their television income is frozen, Catherine Davies, who covers Spanish soccer rights for London-based consultancy Sportcal, said by telephone. The league is working to placate them by increasing total broadcast sales, she added.
Amid falling pay-per-view subscriptions because of Spains economic slump, the league aims to boost TV rights income to 1 billion euros from 752 million by 2017 by combating piracy, increasing sales abroad and pushing the government to remove a weekly match on free-to-air television, Davies said.