Ciro Lopez will broadcast the Paralympic Games on Twitch, and RTVE continues to fight for rights | Relief

This was sensational news on Saturday. And all because of the tweet he published, in which he confirmed that The Paris 2024 Paralympics will be broadcast on their Twitch channel.. Journalist Ciro Lopez was the first to obtain the rights to broadcast this quote. which until now has always been broadcast on RTVE. And given this, all attention was turned to the state organization. Will national television really miss this Paralympic event? The issue quickly began to be discussed on social networks. And the truth is that although I have no rights at the moment, RTVE continues to negotiate on their behalf.

“I’m glad to have the opportunity to cover such an important and successful event for our country”Ciro Lopez said on Twitter. And this announcement represents a giant leap forward streamingwhere some channels have already broadcast sporting events in some cases – an example would be La Liga matches that were broadcast through well-known streamers such as Ibay Llanos, but at least in Spain, the Paralympics have not received as much coverage as they could have. Actually, Ciro Lopez will also join the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) ahead of the Paris 2024 Games.where he will be responsible for the COE YouTube channel, which will summarize each day of the Olympic Games.

As the Popular, the rights to use this event in Spain belong to Enjoy Televisión, a company with which Ciro Lopez has already entered into an agreement. And that’s exactly what RTVE needs to do. The government agency assured Relevo that “RTVE’s intention is always to offer the Paralympic Games and we continue to do so”. Although at the moment there is no agreement.

As the media learned, discrepancies found regarding the financial amount requested by Enjoy Television for the transfer of rights to issue. The figure it paid for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, which will take place in 2021, was €68,421.05, a far cry from what it costs to broadcast the Olympics, for example (€55.5 million).

And, according to a statement from the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), they would “disproportionately” raise rights fees: “An offensive and disproportionate proposal put on the table by the company that owns the rights to broadcast the Paralympic Games in Spain. An offer for an amount that several thousand percent higher than what RTVE paid for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.“, CPE assured.

Thus We’ll have to wait to see if RTVE finally acquires the rights. and the Paralympic Games can be seen in full on the channels or platform of a government organization. Of course, the Spanish Paralympic Committee guarantees that, together with the public body and the Supreme Sports Council, “will continue to work together to reach a solution that will allow the Paris Paralympic Games to be broadcast on public television, since “this has been happening since the Sydney Games in 2000, with excellent audience results and broadcast quality.”