"Audio-visual Sport (AVS controlled by Sogecable) denies that no beginning exists in accordance with Mediapro", said Sogecable in a bulletin to the CNMV.

On Tuesday evening, Mediapro communicated that he was accepting an AVS proposal to exploit jointly and of immediate form the rights of the soccer as they made the companies last year - Mediapro was expressing across his television channel openly The Sixth one a League party every Saturday-.

Sogecable denied this information and repeated that 58 million will return to the situation of the past period if Mediapro pays 70 million euros - earlier - by way of hanging sums. Also, the Catalan producer should contribute papers regarding agreements with several clubs. Sogecable is the current proprietor of the rights of soccer of most of the Spanish teams while Mediapro controls the rights of six teams.

The conflict between both arose this summer, when Mediapro announced that it was going to be done in the next periods with the rights of 38 of 40 clubs of the First and Second Division.

Sogecable reacted demanding Mediapro for breach of contract and suspended the delivery of audio-visual sign to The Sixth, channel openly informed by Mediapro.

The war of the soccer is spending invoice to Sogecable in bag, where it accumulates an annual fall superior to 7,5 %.


(19/09/07)