Spanish media group Mediapro, which owns a sizable chunk of soccer broadcasting rights, has been acquired by Chinese private equity firm Orient Hontai for €900 million ($1.1 billion). Orient will hold a 53.5% stake. Google and UK game studio Preloaded have helped develop the BBC’s new virtual reality service BBC Earth: Life in VR, which will allow Google Daydream headset users to explore natural environments inspired by the broadcaster’s hit programs Blue Planet and Planet Earth. Liberty Global’s UPC lost 51,000 TV subscribers in Switzerland in 2017 to end the year with 1.2 million TV subs, while its internet subscriber base remained flat at 749,000. Revenue grew 0.4% year on year to $1.46 billion. In the mobile segment, UPC grew…