The general manager of The Sixth, Antonio García Ferreras, moved forward today that his chain will close an agreement during this week with another chain so that both express simultaneously the parties of general interest that are disputed during the World cup of Soccer of Germany. Ferreras made sure that the chain has channel TVE offers, four, one it combines of Telecinco and Antenna 3, and autonomic several, and that it would not have to re-open a public sale contest, but it would be the proper chain the one that chooses an offer "looking for the interests of his shareholders".

García Ferreras made sure that the chain will have before the beginning of the competition, June 9, a coverage of 80 per cent of the population in analogical system, but that in any case "they expire with the legality" to possess the rights and to express the tournament. "Nevertheless, we are conscious of that there can be problems, and that's why we want to offer an alternative because we do not want that anybody remains without seeing the parties of Spain", made sure Ferreras.

For it, he made sure that before it concludes the week they will have an agreement with another television, only for the ambience in which the coverage is insufficient, and only for the parties of general interest, this is, the opening, the final, and those that the Spanish selection disputes. "The one that wants to see playing to Brazil only will be able to do it for The Sixth one", aimed the general manager of the chain.

This operation, he added, would consist of "sharing" the meetings, so that in some areas both The Sixth one and another chain re-transmit the parties, something that, according to Ferreras, allows the contract of acquisition of rights that has signed the chain with his original, Telephone proprietress Contained. Asked about the declarations of the manager of Telecinco, who made sure that it would be illegal to sublicense the acquired rights, García Ferreras ironizó with that the same chain "has presented an offer to acquire them".

The director of the chain neither was necessary how many concrete offers have come nor spoke about quantities, but he remembered that The Sixth one did a "brutal effort" to acquire the rights, with a payment for 90 million euros, and that will be she itself the one that chooses offer "looking for the interests of his shareholders".

García Ferreras insisted that the chain "only worries in improving his coverage", and remembered that The Sixth one has put all the possible means so that the World cup is seen by all the technologies. "During the World cup of 2002, three million Spanish they did not see to the selection because the Antenna coverage 3 is hundred for hundred of the territory either", it pointed.

The chain presented this morning the commentators' payroll that they will realize the coverage of the tournament, between that there are Julio Salinas, Rafael Gordillo, Gica Craioveanu and Joaquín Caparrós, between others. During the act, the musician Manuel Jesus Martínez 'The Koala' interpreted the anthem that The Sixth one will express to promote the torne, with the title 'Opá, vamo for the mundiá'.


(22/05/06)