The Champions League runs danger in the Spanish televisions. The skilled portal adslzone.tv has informed that after the second round of open offers by the UEFA, that closed this Wednesday in the afternoon, Mediapro would have remained with the television rights of the competition to the detriment of Telefónica.
The company that directs Jaume Roures has participated in the bidding with two offers, a mixed, accompanied by Atresmedia and TV3, and another in solitary, the which would have been accepted. In the first case would keep the current format, with a party in opened the Tuesdays and the rest of payment by beIN Sports -a system that will be still in the next campaign 2017-18-, but in the second, all the parties would be of payment, to equalise the approach that had followed the own Telefónica.
The offer, that engloba the trienio that goes of the season 2018-19 to the 2020-21, would have closed near of the 200 million euros, since the trienio current, that finalises the next year, rondaría the 165 millions.
A change to European level
The broadcast of the Champions League in opened no only is in danger in Spain, but the triumph of the operators of payment is a fact to European level. In England, BT Sport keeps the scoop of the rights of 2018 to 2021; in France, SFR surpassed to Channel and beIN Sports; in Italy, Sky Italy will leave to Mediaset without parties in open; and in Germany, also Sky Deutschland has remained with the rights of the next trienio, undressing to the ZDF of his option in open.