Gol TV Makes Weekend Debut In Europe

The net­work will make its debut in Span­ish tele­vi­sion screen this week­end when they trans­mit weekend’s matches from Europe and through­out South Amer­ica.  Span­ish net­work Medi­apro joined forces with the all-soccer net­work and they were able to agree with regional net­works like Euskaltel, Orange, and Tele­ca­ble. Gol, along­side Medi­apro, will become the biggest play­ers in the Span­ish mar­ket, tak­ing the thun­der away from rivals Soge­ca­ble and their oper­a­tor, Dig­i­tal+.   Medi­apro now owns the wold­wide rights to La Liga as well as rights to var­i­ous Euro­pean and inter­na­tional leagues in Spain.

Accord­ing to La Razón, Medi­apro was able to come to terms with the three big cable com­pa­nies in Spain and have them place Gol TV in their basic cable pack­age in an effort to give soc­cer fans in Spain more access to  La Liga (they have world­wide rights) as well as live and tape delay matches from Ger­many, Eng­land, Italy, France, Scot­land, Por­tu­gal, Hol­land, Argentina, Colom­bia, Ecuador, and even Morocco. Soge­ca­ble at one pointhad the Span­ish rights to many of these leagues.

Coin­ci­den­tally, the US-network sur­name hap­pens to have the rights to sev­eral of the afor­men­tioned leagues both in the United States as well as in Latin Amer­ica and Canada.   Their week­end pro­gram­ming will con­sist of Bay­ern Munich-Werder Bre­men, Sun­der­land– Mid­dles­brough, Le Havre-Olympique Lyon, Sport­ing Lisbon-Os Bele­nenses, Feyenoord-Ajax, Man­ches­ter City-Portsmouth and Marseille-Mónaco