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ESPN Enters Deal With GolTV To Cover Spain’s Football League “La Liga”

ESPN has reached an agreement with GolTV to broadcast Spain’s La Liga in the USA. The television network dedicated fully to soccer games, 24/7 in the United States, GolTV has exclusive Spanish and English-language multimedia rights to broadcast Spain’s La Liga. ESPN and GolTV will share coverage of Spain’s La Liga football leagues.

This agreement between ESPN and GolTV will allow ESPN to carry many La Liga games. GolTV will deliver 120 live soccer games in English and Spanish and ESPN Deportes will deliver live and exclusive Spanish-language coverage of more than 95 La Liga regular-season matches.

ESPN’s live sports broadband network, ESPN360.com will stream 114 matches, including simulcast of all 95 ESPN Deportes matches live in English. ESPN Deportes and ESPN360.com also to provide coverage of Spain’s domestic cup tournament Copa del Rey.

Rodrigo Lombello, COO, GolTV said “There is so much La Liga, and so much demand, we felt that for our fans and video distribution partners, the right answer was not to launch yet another exclusive channel, but to extend our programming rights across multiple networks – and there is no better partner for this endeavor than ESPN, No other European football league can match La Liga in attracting large audiences on Spanish-language television.”

Lino Garcia, general manager, ESPN Deportes said “La Liga is arguably the most prestigious European soccer league in the world, we’re thrilled to work with GolTV to showcase La Liga on ESPN for the first time to soccer fans in the U.S. With the pending addition of Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka, the timing is great to include this great property to the ESPN Deportes line-up, as it is the most exciting soccer league in the world today. “

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