GRUP MEDIAPRO will be responsible for producing and distributing the international feed for some 700 matches a year, plus the on-site production of every match played in Bolivia
CONMEBOL has renewed its trust in GRUP MEDIAPRO, which will continue at the helm of the CONMEBOL Hub’s end-to-end operation through 2030. The renewal cements a strategic partnership that has helped transform the production, distribution and management of audiovisual content for South American football’s leading competitions.
As part of this new phase, GRUP MEDIAPRO, which will become IMAGINA on January 1, will also continue to produce CONMEBOL competition matches played in Bolivia, deploying up to 20 cameras at venues made especially demanding by altitude, such as La Paz or El Alto.
Since it went live in 2019, the CONMEBOL Hub has become key infrastructure for guaranteeing the highest quality standards in the coverage and distribution of flagship tournaments such as the CONMEBOL Libertadores, CONMEBOL Sudamericana and CONMEBOL Recopa, as well as the national team tournaments organized by the Confederation. In that time, GRUP MEDIAPRO has produced more than 3,500 matches through this production infrastructure, based mainly in Buenos Aires, with support from Miami, Barcelona and Montevideo.
The renewal of the agreement reaffirms CONMEBOL’s confidence in GRUP MEDIAPRO’s technological, operational and innovative capabilities. The group will keep delivering cutting-edge solutions to ensure an outstanding audiovisual experience for broadcasters, digital platforms, sponsors and millions of fans around the world.
“We thank CONMEBOL for this recognition of the work our teams have done. Continuing to work together strengthens our commitment to operational excellence and technological innovation in the service of South American football,” said Santiago Vila, Country Manager of Mediapro Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. “We will keep working alongside CONMEBOL to support the growth of its competitions and deliver the highest standards of audiovisual production and distribution. Producing the matches in Bolivia is also an opportunity to keep strengthening our regional presence and bring our experience to new strategic markets for South American football.”
Two for ‘Yakarta’ (100 Balas), one for Berto Romero’s ‘El Consultorio de Berto’ (El Terrat) and a special mention for the ‘El Intermedio’ (Globomedia) report on Maricarmen’s eviction
Productions from IMAGINA, the new name of GRUP MEDIAPRO from January 1, have been recognized with four Ondas Awards (three prizes and a special mention) at the 73rd edition. Leading the list are two prizes for the series ‘Yakarta,’ the Ondas for Best Communicator for Berto Romero for ‘El Consultorio de Berto’ and the special mention for ‘El Intermedio.’ The awards ceremony will take place on November 26 at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu.
‘Yakarta,’ the Movistar Plus original series co-produced by 100 Balas and Buendía Estudios Canarias, created by Diego San José and directed by Elena Trapé, adds two Ondas to its brilliant track record. The Ondas named it Best Television Series “for the brilliance of its scripts and its ability to delve into problems of the human condition and take on dark themes in a tone that avoids sensationalism, telling the tragedy of losers and portraying a Spain that rarely appears in fiction, without condescension or clichés.” The awards also named Javier Cámara joint winner of Best Performance “for creating an unforgettable character full of nuance and complexity, imbuing him with an unquestionable truth without hiding his darkness or his cracks, while making the viewer connect deeply with a loser full of tenderness.”
With these two new awards, ‘Yakarta’ keeps collecting honors a year after its premiere. The series had already triumphed at the Feroz Awards with three prizes (Best Drama Series, Best Screenplay and Best Actor), and Javier Cámara also won the Forqué Award and the FICAL Award for Best Actor. It has drawn numerous nominations for both the series and its leads, including Cámara’s International Emmy nomination.
In ‘Yakarta,’ Javier Cámara plays Joserra, a down-on-his-luck former Olympic badminton player who thinks he has found the solution to all his problems at a sports center in Fuenlabrada. His salvation has a name: Mar (Carla Quílez), a 15-year-old player with as many problems as he has. Cámara himself and Fernando Delgado-Hierro directed two of the series’ six episodes. Delgado-Hierro also co-wrote the scripts with Diego San José and Daniel Castro.
For his part, Berto Romero took the Ondas for Best Communicator for ‘El Consultorio de Berto,’ the Movistar Plus original produced in collaboration with El Terrat, in which he answers the audience’s most outlandish questions with his trademark wit, irony and gift for improvisation. The jury gave him the prize “for demonstrating a unique personality on television, with a dynamic tone in a different format. Romero shows speed in presenting and brilliance in building rapport out of the most absurd things, always on a very solid intellectual footing.”
With three seasons already released, the most recent alongside Andrés Fajngold and featuring prominent guest comedians such as Miguel Maldonado, Victoria Martín, Carolina Iglesias, Eva Hache, Joaquín Reyes, Sílvia Abril, Ernesto Sevilla, Laura Márquez, Tomàs Fuentes and Ignasi Taltavull, Berto Romero turns everyday situations and surreal questions into conversations full of humor. That formula has established the show as one of the most distinctive entertainment formats on Spanish television.
‘El Intermedio,’ the laSexta program produced by Globomedia, also received a special mention in the category of Best Current Affairs or News Coverage Program for its report on the eviction of Maricarmen Abascal, “for showing on television, directly and journalistically, a historic moment of social change, from the closest possible vantage point to Maricarmen Abascal.”
With this special mention, the Ondas jury recognizes the work of the program and of Andrea Ropero, the only journalist who documented the entire eviction process from inside the home.
The group deployed 18 cameras at the soccer tournament held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Mediapro Argentina handled the broadcast of all 48 Messi Cup matches for ESPN. The youth soccer tournament ran October 25 to November 1 at Inter Miami CF Stadium in Fort Lauderdale.
GRUP MEDIAPRO, which will be known as IMAGINA from January 1, deployed a remote production system with 18 cameras in total. The tournament was spread across three fields, one with 10 cameras and two with four each, making it Mediapro Argentina’s first 10-feed remote production outside Argentina.
Much of the operation was coordinated from the Mediacenter in Buenos Aires, with directing, sound, tape and graphics integrated remotely and resources optimized without sacrificing quality.
Over two episodes, the series investigates the dark legend of the Palacio de Linares, one of the most popular unsolved mysteries in recent Spanish history
On Friday, November 27, HBO Max opens ‘Expediente Linares’ to uncover the truth behind one of Spain’s most famous alleged poltergeist cases. The documentary, an HBO Max original produced by 100 Balas, probes one of the most publicized mysteries in the history of Spanish parapsychology: the alleged ghostly apparitions at the Palacio de Linares in the early 1990s.
Written and directed by Israel del Santo (‘El Palmar de Troya,’ ‘Lola’), the two-episode series reconstructs the events from their origin to unravel the secrets hidden behind the walls of this emblematic building on Madrid’s Plaza de Cibeles. Using archival footage, carefully crafted fiction of exceptional quality and the accounts of investigators and journalists closely tied to the case (some of whom gained access to the palace at the time), ‘Expediente Linares’ enters one of the most unsettling chapters in Spain’s paranormal annals to establish how much truth lies behind the alleged curse. Some of the experiences recounted also come to light here for the first time.
Synopsis
In the early 1990s, a series of alleged poltergeist phenomena, terrifying apparitions and the recording of inexplicable psychophonies put an abandoned palace in the heart of Madrid in everyone’s sights. Experts want to study it, the media talk about nothing else, and hundreds of curious onlookers throng its doors every night hoping to experience it up close. A cursed place where only secrets and taboos dwell, and a legend that must be told in a whisper so as not to wake the ghost of a girl everyone calls Raimundita.
To piece together what happened, ‘Expediente Linares’ features, among others, testimony from journalists and writers close to the events, such as David Cuevas, Álvaro Martín, Josep Guijarro, Clara Tahoces, Alberto Ávila and Nieves Herrero; popularizers and historians such as David Botello, Sonia Taravilla and Santiago Vázquez; and researchers who are experts in parapsychology, including Sol Blanco-Soler, Aldo Linares, Enrique de Vicente and Pedro Amorós.
The mystery of Raimundita’s ghost
A forbidden love story that turned into true crime in the late 19th century is the seed of the dark legend surrounding Madrid’s Palacio de Linares, which for decades has obsessed poltergeist enthusiasts in Spain. Alleged sightings of the ghost of an enigmatic girl, said to have been christened Raimundita, were described by various witnesses and sparked, in the early 1990s, a sudden interest in what was going on in a building many called “cursed.”
Spain’s craze at the time for psychophonies, Ouija boards and paranormal events, amplified by alleged mediums and parapsychologists appearing on TV shows, stoked curiosity about mysteries like the Palacio de Linares even further. The palace became the main topic of conversation, and a group of people tied to these practices became public figures.
Who was Carmen Sánchez de Castro, and why did she devote her life to trying to prove the building was haunted? Could the HEPTA Group, Spain’s leading parapsychology research team, prove that a poltergeist existed in the building? Why did the security guards and the construction workers at the palace refuse to go there at night?
‘Expediente Linares’ is a 100 Balas production for HBO Max. Written and directed by Israel del Santo, the series has Alejandro Flórez and Marisa Jiménez as executive producers for 100 Balas. Bibiana González is Head of Non-Fiction Content at HBO Max, and María Rubio and Zaida Serrano-Piedecasas are the executive producers for HBO Max.
The LNH’s new graphics package is already in use on beIN SPORTS and HandballTV broadcasts, with adaptations for digital highlights and vertical content
The Ligue Nationale de Handball (LNH) is refreshing the look of French handball with a visual identity created by wTVision for the league’s 2026–2031 broadcast cycle. The project spans live match graphics, competition branding, and digital animations, with designs tailored to the decisive stages of the playoffs.
This is wTVision’s first direct collaboration with the LNH, within the league’s broadcast cycle with beIN SPORTS. The graphics debuted at the Trophée des Champions in August and then at the Chambéry–Paris match on September 4 and can now be seen on beIN SPORTS and HandballTV.
The LNH wanted a consistent visual identity across live broadcasts, replays, and social media content. wTVision developed the graphics for these different uses, paying particular attention to clear, legible information on small screens and adapting digital sequences for both horizontal and vertical formats.
Visual continuity for the playoffs
One of the main creative challenges was to give the playoffs greater visual intensity without cutting them off from the league’s overall identity. For the playoffs and finals, the existing graphics package stays, with Playoffs and Finals logos worked into the layouts. That marks out the decisive stages of the season without losing visual coherence with regular-season broadcasts.
Graphics that serve the game
The broadcast graphics cover player statistics, referee sanctions, timeouts, and match updates. Full-screen layouts show team lineups, standings, playoff brackets, and player comparisons, giving production teams a choice of formats for presenting the information from every match.
Competition intros, transitions, backgrounds, and split-screen replay layouts complete the television package. The animated sequences were also developed in tune with the league’s new sound identity.
For digital content, wTVision created animations for formats including ‘Le Débrief,’ ‘Top Goals / Top Saves,’ and ‘Le Zapping,’ with titles and transitions adapted to both the horizontal 16:9 and vertical 9:16 aspect ratios. That way, the visual language of the broadcasts carries over into the content fans consume beyond the live broadcast.
The design project adds to the work wTVision already does on French handball broadcasts. For beIN SPORTS France, the company handles real-time graphics implementation, data integration, and live graphics operation for three matches every weekend.
The LNH project brings together two sides of wTVision’s work in sports: defining how a competition looks and understanding what it takes to deliver it live. The result is a visual identity that answers to the league’s brand, to production needs, and to the different ways of following the game.
The new spot stays true to the project’s creative essence as it closes out the four-ad campaign
Mediapro Brands has capped ‘Ahorra y descansa’ (literally, “Save and Rest”; no official English title has been announced), its campaign for Factory Colchón, with a new spot showing that a versatile creative concept with staying power is ideal for connecting with a range of current topics.
After working alongside the brand through several key moments of the year, Mediapro Brands is rounding off the campaign with a fourth and final spot tied to Black Friday. The latest piece keeps the project’s creative essence and shows how a strong idea can evolve and stay relevant across very different conversations and contexts.
From the start, the campaign has been built on a simple, universal premise: the peace of mind of having made a good purchase is part of resting well, too. Drawing on that insight, Mediapro Brands developed a narrative that adapts to situations as varied as the tension of the league’s final stretch, the anticipation of a World Cup, the worries of house hunting and, now, one of the most important commercial milestones on the calendar for brands and consumers.
The new spot taps into Black Friday’s prominence and relevance to strengthen Factory Colchón’s positioning without giving up the narrative coherence that has run through the entire campaign. This brand-building work underscores the importance of combining strategy, creativity and flexibility to keep a concept alive over time.
With this final launch, Mediapro Brands reaffirms its ability to develop integrated campaigns that connect with audiences across multiple touchpoints, delivering consistency, recognition and value for brands.
Watch the spot: https://vimeo.com/1239815582/18b421f5ec
