José Pablo López has been appointed as the president of Spain public broadcaster RTVE. His inauguration will take place on December 2nd. Until March 2024 he served as Director of General Content at the public broadcaster, but the controversial recruitment of comedian David Broncano to lead the late night talk show La Recuelta led to […]

Mediapro has been responsible for the live production of the Karate World Cup – National Teams Championship organised by the Spanish Karate Federation and the World Karate Federation and held November 22nd-24th in Pamplona. Throughout the three days of the championship, Mediapro BMS (Broadcast Media Services), the group division specialising in audiovisual production for events, […]

RTVE Play, the OTT service from Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, was the most widely watched OTT platform in the country in October 2024 with 10.5 million unique viewers, representing 27 per cent of its TV consumption, according to Barlovento Comunicacion. RTVE Play leads Movistar Plus+ and other national OTT platforms, bit still remains behind the […]

Samsung’s free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) service, Samsung TV Plus, has announced a suite of new Spanish channels and content to further expand its offering in the region. According to MIPCOM, Spain is second only to the UK in scripted TV commissions in Europe from global streaming platforms, and its TV sector has surged by […]

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has launched its OTT platform, rtveplay+ in Asia and Oceania – two new continents in its international expansion. Viewers in Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, India and Australia are now able to watch a wide selection of content including TV series, cinema, documentaries, newscasts, entertainment programmes and also linear channels including […]

RTVE, the Spanish public broadcaster, has allocated a €4.6 million budget to reshape and personalise its OTT service RTVE Play. The broadcaster says it will rely on original productions to expand the service, improve its free registration wall and search engine, and deploy a new CDP – software that stores customers data – to analyse […]

Off-road electric race series, Extreme E, has announced that Spanish broadcaster RTVE (Radiotelevisión Española) has renewed its agreement with the championship and will televise all ten of the upoming season’s races on its free-to-air linear channel.Race highlights, review and magazine shows – which will all be broadcast in Spanish – will join the line-up of […]

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has switched off the SD transmission of its six channels (La 1, La 2, Canal 24 horas, Clan, Teledeporte and TVE Internacional), migrating them to HD, a week before the February 14th deadline. Meanwhile, it is launching the first UHD channel in Spain with regular transmissions, La 1 UHD, which will […]

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE and Telefónica Audiovisual Digital have signed a three year agreement to distribute all RTVE channels (La 1, La 2, Canal 24 Horas, Clan and Teledeporte) on Movistar Plus for the next three years. The deal also brings regional news programmes from all around Spain to the platform. The deal includes all […]

Spain’s UHD Association held a briefing at the headquarters of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE) in Madrid, on the pioneering test of UHD-HDR broadcasting and next-generation audio (NGA), using 5G technology at different points of the chain, carried out in October 2023. The Association says that the event was “a milestone that opens […]