The Sixth one presented all his ambitious coverage of the World cup of Soccer of Germany, in which he foresees to report for 24 hours on the event. It did it giving "guarantees" of which the process of antenización that must follow to be able to visualize the chain will not get into troubles. José Miguel Contreras, manager of The Sixth one, the chain that will share the emission of the parties of the World cup with Sogecable (Channel + and Digitalis +), he committed himself to that "80 % of the population will be able to see the soccer World cup", the day of the opening, June 9.

"Now we are in a tuning phase, but shortly we will have covered the coverage of 80 % of the territory, so that the World cup could turn in The Sixth one", showed Contreras, who stressed the "extraordinary effort" that the chain and Abertis - the company hired to give coverage - realize to be able to fulfill the commitments adopted in the contest.

The Sixth, private channel informed by Televisa (40 %) and the Audio-visual Group of Means of Produccióna (60 %) (consortium formed by the producers Globomedia, Mediapro, Drive, The Terrat and Bainet), was done by the rights of 64 parties of the World cup of Soccer in Spain, after paying 100 million euros to Phone companhy Contained. Some of these meetings, those of general interest, - those of Spain and those of opening and closing - it will express them directly, and the rest, will share them with Sogecable, expressing the live some (up to a whole of 35, of which 27 are of the first phase, included all those of Spain and Brazil), and the rest, in deferred.

In addition to the analogical route, The Sixth one it is possible to syntonize across the terrestrial digital television (TDT), and of the digital satellite channel. Contreras guaranteed that The Sixth one "will expire with the law of general interest", but he recommended to the citizens to get in touch with the chain to settle any problem.

"The citizens have the World cup in the roof of his house, they have only to look for it", added the manager of the chain. It clarified also that the decision to share the rights with Digitalis + has "an economic justification for the investment that we have had to do".

The Sixth one will do a continuous pursuit of the World cup, with two neuralgic centers of emission: the IBC, in Munich, and Kamen Center, to continue to the Spanish selection.


(16/05/06)