The Sixth one will offer from June a dedicated programming 24 hours a day to the World cup of Soccer of Germany, from which it will offer all the parties, be already live or in deferred, as told this morning in Saragossa, in the course of a press conference, the director of the chain, Antonio García Ferreras.

The spectators of the Sixth one will be able to see 64 parties of the World cup, with a wide human and technical deployment that includes the creation of a 'Sport Center' in Madrid, center of emission and connections of the whole World cup; in addition to another two neuralgic centers of emission, since there are International Broadcasting Center (IBC) of Munich, where from there will be sent all the signs of the different places of concentration and stadiums of Germany where the parties will be disputed; and Kamen Center, where from a punctual pursuit will be done to the Spanish Selection, which will concentrate in this German city.

Antonio García Ferreras affirmed that "it is the first time in the history that an analogical channel expresses openly and free all the parties of the World cup", also, it aimed that the attention is going to "to center on the Spanish Selection and on the Brazilian, who is the favorite". The director of the Sixth one indicated that "the world cup of a different way is going to be seen to as one has seen earlier", since it pointed out that "in this television the soccer is more than a sport, it is a passion, it is the religion of the XXIst century".

The Sixth one will be provided with a team of more than 200 professionals, between whom there are Patxi Alonso, Andrés Montes, Cristina Villanueva, Antonio Esteva and Oscar Rincón, and other commentators linked to the world of the soccer.

"Emotion, passion and information are the essential keys of this chain of entertainment", indicated Antonio García Ferreras, "with the brutal challenge of doing a hollow to him between the Spanish spectators with the advantage of which we have the very young people with many passion and some persons of those who more know of television of this country".

Between the new faces of the Sixth one there is Cristina Villanueva, who will be in Kamen with the Spanish Selection. This journalist, who has joined to the Informative Services of the Sixth one, presents from the last April 24 the daily sports space 'To The World cup with The Sixth one', it is known for having presented 2 News about channel TVE, and it has a wide professional experience linked to the area of informative and sports, in the channel Teledeporte and Estadio-2.

Cristina Villanueva aimed that he decided to leave channel TVE for The Sixth one because "a soccer World cup is at the level of a few Olympic Games and it was a challenge that could not get lost". Also, although Antonio García Ferreras aimed that "during this month it is a channel for those who love the soccer", for Cristina "there are the people the one that does not like the soccer and there do not lose a World cup, enclosed one the people who is not accustomed to following the League, it continues to the Selection".

For his part, Andrés Montes will be the teacher of ceremonies of this Cup of the World, it has been for 11 years the voice of the NBA in Channel +, and the Radio program Marks 'you do not know how I love you'. Andrés Montes affirmed that "it was a challenge to change to a completely different movie", and stressed that he is "an atypical professional" therefore it does not go "to do a typical and local World cup" but it will continue his "line of last years of silly thing and heterogenia", because for this professional "we have not come to this world to suffer but to spend it well".

Every day three parties will be re-transmitted, at 15:00, 18,00 hours and 21,00 hours, the live parties being alternated and in deferred. The first one of the emission will take place on Friday, the 9th of June at 18:00 with the party between Germany and Costa Rica.

As soon as the World cup of Soccer was finished, Juan Ramón Lucas or Eva Arguiñano will count the chain with two informative newspapers and two of weekend, in addition to serials and programs of entertainment, with the presence of well-known faces of the television like Emilio Aragón, Florentino Fernández, Olga Viza, Patricia Conde, the Big Wyoming, between others.


(EP, 08/05/06)