FC Barcelona closes Barça TV on June 30 after 27 years on the air

FC Barcelona will shut its tv channel Barça TV on June 30, when the contract it maintains with its supplier TBSC Telefónica ends.

The reference chain for Barcelona followers will put an finish to greater than 20 years of broadcasting, because it started in September 1996, with Josep Lluís Núñez as president of the Catalan membership.

The drastic measure impacts some 150 staff, together with contracted personnel and collaborators, who’ve been knowledgeable of the non-renewal of the contract for the availability of providers. A choice conditioned by financial causes. Mainly due to the monetary honest play of LaLiga.

The channel, which broadcasts 24 hours a day open on DTT, and can be built-in into the Movistar+ and Orange platform, already has the expiration date marked on the calendar, placing an finish to a Barça house that through the In the final 12 months, it has skilled totally different calls for from the canal staff.

In reality, the employees carried out strikes throughout match days to demand higher working situations and in February they reached an settlement, guaranteeing a minimal with the Telefónica affiliate.

As of June 30, as soon as Barça TV disappears from the tv grid, the membership will search for new formulation to proceed broadcasting its personal content material, making the most of the membership’s sturdy implementation in social networks, in accordance with the newspaper ‘Sport’.

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