Football TV Rights: New Commentators & Journalists

El País Editorial.
After the bidding for the rights to Uruguayan football, a new television scene was launched after 25 years of the Tenfield era. In the intense negotiations that are taking place at this time with the cable operators, the new holders of the cable rights, DirecTV and Torneos, define their teams of journalists for the broadcasts, with some names confirmed and others to be finalized.

This Sunday, with the premiere of the Copa League UPthe television consortium showed its first journalistic letters in the broadcasts of the matches Wanderers – Youth y Defender – Progress.

The early meeting included the stories of Fabian Bertolini and the comments of Diego Munoz from Saroldi Park. At the field level they worked Gonzalo Ronchi and Alfonso Irrazábal. In the second hour duel, the narrator was Mario Martinez y Fernando Corchs was in charge of the comments. He worked on the playing field Iñaki Goicoechea.

When it’s time to debut Peñarol or National In the AUF League, TV Show confirmed that the main team of DirecTV broadcasts will take to the field: Rodrigo Romano in the stories and Federico Buysan in the comments, as has happened in recent years with the Uruguayan team, for example.

Relatives confirmed that the duo will be in charge of the main matches of this summer tournament organized by AUF and whose rights are exclusively held by the DirecTV – Tournaments consortium. However, the narrator and commentator will provide voice and analysis (a priori) only to these summer games and within the framework of the contract they already have in force with DirecTV for the program. They talk about football like this. That is to say, their participation in the AUF League does not imply that Romano – Buysan will form the definitive official duo of the cable, once the official championship begins in February.

Although DirecTV wants them as main figures, the informants commented that negotiations remain. It happens that Rodrigo Romano and Federico Buysan have commitments in stories and comments for the radio The Sports Spectatorwhich opens a period of definitions. In neither case is it proposed that they leave their radio programs, but their participation in the broadcasts could be renegotiated. It is still early for a definition.

Romano has been especially active on social networks at the beginning of the new era of broadcasts. He posted the opening of the DirecTV channels that will feature Uruguayan soccer and urged his followers to check with their cable operators if they will feature them. This Sunday he named his colleagues for the broadcasts of the first games. According to Romano, for the moment football will be in DirecTV, Flow, Cableplus (Coast City) and 12 other cable operators in the country. There is currently no agreement with the companies in Montevideo and others in the Interior.

What is certain is that DirecTV seeks to form the transmission teams among the journalists who are already part of the signal. In addition to those already mentioned, there are added Mauro Mas, Darío Alberti, Santiago Rodríguezamong others.