Mega is a Spanish television channel owned by

Atresmedia Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación, S.A., previously Grupo Antena 3, is a Spanish media group, present in the television, radio and filmmaking industries. Significant shareholders include Grupo Planeta and Bertelsmann. On 6 Marc ...

. Its programming is aimed towards a male audience. The network is available on digital terrestrial television (TDT as it is known in Spain) as well as cable and satellite.

History

On May 6, 2014,

was forced to close

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and la Sexta 3 channels due to a supreme court ruling, so the programming aimed at the male audience had to be placed on other group channels such as Neox or

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. After this event, Atresmedia sought to recover the license that was leased to Gol Televisión, setting the end of 2015 as a limit. In May 2015, Atresmedia and Mediapro signed the rescission of the frequency rental agreement, since Mediapro would launch a new channel in association with BeIn Sports, so Gol Televisión would stop broadcasting. During June 2015, Gol Televisión broadcast free-to-air for a few hours to promote the new channel, ending its broadcasts on June 30, which also meant the end of pay DTT in Spain. After recovering the frequency, Atresmedia announced that the new channel would be called Mega, finally, the channel began broadcasting on July 1, 2015.

Programming

Mega's programming is aimed at a male audience, including series, action movies, factuals, documentaries and

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, as well as sports talk shows such as ''

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'' and the retransmission of programs that had been broadcast on Antena 3 and

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. Most of the documentaries, factuals and reality shows broadcast on Mega are produced by

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References

External links

Official website
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