Spain media giant Prisa announces TV merger plan
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- Spain media giant Prisa announces TV merger plan
- Mare Nostrum Barcelona: Plenty More Meet Records Fall in Spain
- Spain’s Queen Sofia not amused by Ryanair
- Spain proposes 9 bln euro bank fund -minister
- US Judge Recommends Spain Should Get Treasure
Spain media giant Prisa announces TV merger plan
AFP
The government in February passed a law that eliminated a 5. 0 percent limit on cross shareholdings at television broadcasters. The law is intended to ease sector mergers at a time when Spain’s media is being hammered by the country’s worst recession in over five decades with advertising revenues dropping sharply. Prisa and Imagina’s parent company Mediapro also announced that they had reached a deal on sharing broadcasting rights of top Spanish football matches for the next three seasons ending a bitter dispute. La Sexta and Prisa’s pay-TV unit Digital+ have shared the broadcast rights for the first division and Spanish Cup but have clashed over which matches should be shown on which channel and at what time. Aside from El Pais Prisa also owns business paper Cinco Dias sports daily AS as well as several radio stations in Spain and extensive interests in Latin America. Last year the group invited offers for Digital+ but has failed to find a buyer.
Mare Nostrum Barcelona: Plenty More Meet Records Fall in Spain
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asp –>Mare Nostrum Barcelona: Plenty More Meet Records Fall in Spain — June 7 2009BARCELNA Spain June 7. THE final day of long course meter swimming at the Mare Nostrum Barcelona stop featured several more meet standards taking a tumble. Anastasia Zueva clipped the meet record in the women's 50 back with a time of 27. That performance beat Sophie Edington's 27.
Spain’s Queen Sofia not amused by Ryanair
Times nline
Ryanair used a photograph of the Spanish royal in advertisements after she took a £13 flight from Santander in northern Spain to see her brother in London. La Zarzuela the Spanish equivalent of Buckingham Palace was not amused and the Queen became the latest passenger to be alienated by the airline. It said that the Spanish Royal Family were displeased and surprised by the use of Queen Sofia’s image without her permission. The Queen took the Ryanair flight last week to see her brother Constantine who was recovering from heart surgery at a London hospital. The former King Constantine II has lived in London with his wife since the Greek monarchy was abolished in 1973.
Spain proposes 9 bln euro bank fund -minister
guardian.co.uk
8 billion) bank restructuring fund and hopesto pass the measure through Congress in June Economy MinisterElena Salgado said. Asked in an interview with newspaper ABC if the governmentwas seeking a 9 billion fund as press have reported Salgadosaid: “That is our proposal. Details of the fund which would be run by the Bank ofSpain follow comments by Prime Minister Jose Luis RodriguezZapatero on Friday that some Spanish savings banks face problemsafter the collapse of the housing boom. He said the governmentwould help them get through the next two to three difficultyears.
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US Judge Recommends Spain Should Get Treasure
NPR
Judge Recommends Spain Should Get Treasure : NPR. dyssey Marine Exploration hauled up riches from a shipwreck in the Atlantic. Spain claims the treasure came from a Spanish naval vessel sunk by the British in 1804 and thus part of its national heritage.
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