A new judicial front has been opened between two of the most important audiovisual groups in Spain, Mediaset and Radio Televisión Española. According to El Independiente, Reti Televisive Italiane, an Italian company belonging to the Mediaset group, had sued the public entity, considering that it had breached the commitments contained in a contract that was still in force between both parties.
As revealed by the aforementioned media, Italian television assures that RTVE breached one of the contracts they signed for the transfer of the broadcasting rights of the daily series Six Sisters, produced by Bambú Producciones and which was broadcast in Spain on La 1 de RTVE between 2015 and 2017.
”In October-November 2021, RTI began relations with CRTVE for the acquisition of 260 episodes of the series ‘Six Sisters’ for exclusive broadcast on the Canale 5 network in Italy starting in September 2022,” they state in the demand.
The origin of the problem arose when the Italian company considered that the public audiovisual group had breached the agreement between the parties and went to court to remedy the damage. The amount claimed by the transalpine party does not appear in the documentation published on the State Contracting Platform and RTVE has refused to give more details on this judicial front.
In order to face this demand, RTVE has had to launch a tender, for an amount of between 80,000 and 120,000 euros, in which they are looking for a law firm to be in charge of legal representation in this judicial process, which began with a complaint for damages.
In the tender that has been made public, the public corporation expressly requests that the team in charge of legal defense must have on its payroll a lawyer specializing in television law with an “academic qualification that accredits the practice of law in Italy and with a minimum of 4 years of experience.”
