The popular club of Portuguese soccer already has, finally, his television channel following like that the steps of other European clubs, which it has like pioneer to the Manchester United

The Manchester United was the first club of soccer to have a proper television in the whole world. On September 10, 1998 there was initiating his emission the channel MUTV across the satellites Astra (28,2nd East). After the Manchester United many other clubs, especially Europeans, have continued the same way. This is the case of TV Chelsea, Real Madrid TV, Barca TV and TV Inter, in addition to MUTV.

It is the initial forecasts that Benfica TV was expressing only for the platform Zon TV End (earlier TV End) but the agreement reached finally by the club from Lisbon only alludes to the operators Meo on TV and Ar Telecom.

What if it is true is that Channel Benfica will not be able to offer initially the transmissions of the football matches of the first team. It will have to renegotiate, earlier, the contract that there ties with the sports channel Sport TV, which has in possession the rights of the parties of the flesh-colored team · until the year 2012.

The legendary Portuguese club, which has more qualifications that any other Portuguese team, affirms to possess five million fans in the whole world.

The Benfica had his most glorious epoch in the decade of 1960, and champion been crowned again in the period spent after 11 years.


(SatCesc, 26/11/08)