Sports news in Spain

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• In Spain, usually, primetime television news starts at 9pm and ends at 10:30pm.

• From 10pm to 10:30pm it’s all about sports, particularly FCB and Real Madrid.

Sports news in Spain

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• Unlike any other country in Europe, in Spain there’s a great tradition of sports print newspapers, with 4 different big outlets sharing the market

Sports newspapers in Spain during Franco’s time

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Sports newspapers in Spain during Franco’s time

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La Vanguardia, October 1973

Marca El País As El Mundo La Vanguardia El Mundo Deportivo

La Voz de Galicia

El Periódico de Catalunya

Sport Abc

2.6

1.68

1.34

1.03

0.690.6 0.59 0.56 0.55 0.51

Audience of Spanish Newspapers May 2014 (daily readers in millions, in red sports media outlets)

Barcelona Madrid

Sports news in Spain

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• Sports newspapers focus on gossip about future transfers and manufacture grotesque scenes like ouija games to summon a departed player.

Spanish sporting celebrities

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• Bullfighters were the most popular “sportsmen” in Spain in the last decades of the 20th Century.

The funeral of Paquirri Marca section on bullfighting

Most popular sports in Spain

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• Soccer

• Basketball

• Cycling:Alberto Contador, 2-time tour de france winner

• Tennis: Rafa Nadal. 14 grand slam titles, same as Pete Sampras.

• Motorbikes: Marc Márquez, 2 times Moto GP world champion

• Formula 1: Fernando Alonso, 2 times F1 champion

• Handball

Spanish traditional sports

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• Basque traditional sports:

Basque pelota or jai alai

Harrijasotzaile (stone lifters)

Spanish traditional sports

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• Catalan sports:

Roller hockeyKilian Jornet