RTP and Sport TV are “in the process of negotiating” for the broadcast of a 2022/23 I Football League match on international channels, an official source from the public broadcaster told Lusa on Wednesday.
AI Football League 2022/23 started last fridayon August 5, without a match being broadcast on international RTP channels, as has happened in previous years.
Contacted by Lusa, the official RTP source said that negotiations are underway with Sport TV.
Having terminated the previous contract, RTP made a proposal to Sport TV, taking into account the financial situation of the public radio and television company, with the negotiation process underway,” said an official source from the public broadcaster.
In an interview with Lusa in early July, the president of RTP said that the directors had been asked to a 5% cut from your budgettaking into account the increase in costs.
At the beginning of June, Nicolau Santos, who took office a little over a year ago, had said that RTP would probably have losses this year, taking into account the increase in costs, namely energy, coverage of the war in Ukraine, to which is added the charge of 12 million euros for the Qatar Soccer World Cup, contracted in 2011, but which will only now be counted.
RTP will probably have losses this year, says Nicolau Santos
Then, on the income side, RTP is “very” limitedrecalled, at the time, the president of the RTP Board of Directors, who defended that “it is necessary to make a deep reflection on the RTP financing model and on what is wanted from RTP”.
The negotiations with Sport TV are, as in previous years, for the transmission of a match of the First Football League on international channels.
Source: Observadora
