The group is also responsible for MAKUSI and PRIMERAN, streaming services in Basque
GRUP MEDIAPRO was responsible for the technology development of GUAU - Gure Audioa, the new EITB audio streaming service for the public broadcast service in the region. The platform sets out to promote and broadcast content in Basque in an accessible and attractive way.
GRUP MEDIAPRO has created a platform which optimizes the user experience and has included audio transcription features. GUAU has been designed so that users can create and subscribe to playlists download content to listen to even offline and turn on notifications so as not to miss the latest episode of their favorite podcast. The user interface has been de make it as easy as possible to manage content, offering users an intuitive and bespoke experience.
The new service, which was launched on February 6th, included all the audio content on EITB as well as an extensive back catalogue which will continue to be expanded. On the GUAU platform there are more than 100 à la carte radio shows, 150 podcasts, 18 video podcasts and users can listen to 6 EITB radio stations live. The new platform is free and is available via guau.eus, downloading the app on Play Store, App Store and will soon be available on HHBTV (Smart TV), on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
GRUP MEDIAPRO, a market leader in the audiovisual sector in Europe unique in its ability to integrate content production and audiovisual production and distribution, has got a business area specializing exclusively in the development of OTTs. With the addition of GUAU, they’ve now created three content platforms in Basque. GRUP MEDIAPRO is also responsible for the technology behind MAKUSI, the EITB kids content streaming service and PRIMERAN, the biggest digital content platform in Basque.
GRUP MEDIAPRO has also developed other content platforms with huge success for Gol Mundial, Bar TV, CaixaForum+ and Liceu+, among others.
Orts has worked on productions by Almodóvar, Amenábar and Bayona and won 7 Goya, 8 Gaudí and 2 Platino awards, as well as 1 Golden Reel
Telson, GRUP MEDIAPRO's image and post-production sound facility, has just incorporated into its team award-winning sound mixer Marc Orts, one of Spain’s leading figures in audio post-production. Orts joins Telson as head of sound for the fiction department.
As well as earning 17 Goya nominations, Orts is a 7-time Goya winner, for 'Society of the Snow’, 'The Orphanage', 'Buried', 'The Impossible', 'El niño’, 'A Monster Calls' and ‘Out of Sync’. He has also been honored with a Golden Reel Award, and in the Gaudí Awards been nominated 22 times and won 8 awards, as well as picking up 3 nominations and 2 prizes in the Platino Awards. These and other accolades have solidified his standing as a leading professional in his field.
Orts has worked with directors of the stature of Pedro Almodóvar, in films such as 'Broken Embraces', 'Pain and Glory', 'I'm So Excited’, 'Julieta', 'The Room Next Door', 'The Skin I Live In' and 'Parallel Mothers'; José Antonio Bayona in 'The Orphanage', 'The Impossible', 'The Society of Snow' and 'A Monster Calls’; and with Alejandro Amenábar, Daniel Monzon, Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza and Dani de la Orden, among others. Orts was responsible for the sound mixing on the film 'Enemy' by Canadian director Denis Villeneuve ('Dune', 'Blade Runner 2049'), and has worked in the sound department on major productions such as 'The Machinist' and 'Transsiberian' by American director Brad Anderson.
Orts is a member of the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which presents the Oscars, and has made important contributions to the development of sound technology including the creation of IMM-Sound, the immersive sound tool Dolby acquired to create its prestigious and popular Atmos system; the Full Immersive system for audiovisual experiences, and the One Sound automated sound and mixing tool. With this addition to its team, GRUP MEDIAPRO gains a new top-tier talent.
Telson, which recently picked up both a Goya and a Gaudí award for Best Visual Effects in 'El 47', has extensive experience and provides services for leading national and international companies in the realms of advertising, film and TV, including series. In coming weeks, the group will open a post-production sound studio at its production center in Barcelona.
The Fox Sports, Fox Sports 2 and Fox Sports 3 channels have also undergone an image upgrade
With 1,860 live hours and covering a wide range of different sports, the channels in Argentina continue to expand their content offering with some of the very best live national and international competitions. This month Fox Sports Argentina has presented its program schedule for 2025, as well as upgrading its channel image of the three stations (Fox Sports, Fox Sports 2, Fox Sports 3).
Highlights include:
Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores: From the first match, the draw for the group phase until the adrenaline of the final. The most important regional competition will be covered by Fox Sports. With broadcasts and up close coverage of the matches, teams, and players from start-to-finish.
UEFA Champions League: the final of the Champions League is one of most important regional sporting events in the world with an estimated audience of between 350 and 400 million viewers. In Argentina it can be seen on Fox Sports. A top level show with pre and post-match shows to complement the action.
Fórmula 1: In 2024 Fox Sports closely followed the debut season of Franco Colapinto, multiplying the audience by a factor of 6 and notching up a reach of more than 14.2M digitally. In 2025 the action is back with all the races covered in this top tier sporting event. The target is to develop a specialist audience through the analysis and work of an excellent team of pundits and experts with long track records in the sport: Adrián Puente, Andrés Agulla and Florencia Andersen.
UFC: With ever increasing fights covered each year the UFC coverage is expanding year on year, UFC went from being a phenomenon to an unstoppable force. A place where the most daring and ambitious and dangerous martial arts experts can put themselves to the test and redefine the concept of what it means to be a fighter.
The Liga ACB from Spain: The European basketball elite with a strong Argentinian presence. The Spanish ACB League isn’t just recognised as one of the most prestigious competitions in Europe but it has also consolidated itself as a key platform for the development and consolidation of Argentine players internationally. Their presence not only provides quality but also generates a lot of interest from the Argentine fans.
The Argentine Volleyball League: For the first time ever, all the game from the Argentine Volleyball League will be shown live on Fox Sports, bringing the excitement of Argentina volleyball to homes around the country.
Fans will be able to complete coverage of the LVA, which includes close to 150 games as well as the Supercopa and the two phases of the ACLAV Cup, the Regular Phase and the LVA playoffs.
Red Bull Content: Content from Red Bull which sets out to fascinate and inspire with sports, culture and entertainment which goes beyond. Documentaries, films, series and live events from around the world including the Red Bull Buenos Aires Conquest, Red Bull Cliff Diving and Downhill urban ride. Events full of adrenaline with the Red Bull stamp of quality.
In addition to these rights, there will also be original live programming from Monday to Friday from one in the afternoon until midnight which will be covering all the latest sports news, the pre-match preview shows, interviews with Adrián Puente, Luli Trujillo, Rama Pantorotto, Cata Bonadeo, Fernando Carlos, Martin Reich, MIguel Osovi, Romina Calora, Alejandro Vall, Agustina Vidal and Wally Primosich will all be part of the team bringing all the news to the viewers.
Weekly shows and specials complete the lineup. With highlights including ‘Telemétrico’, with analysis and FI race broadcast; ‘Manos Arriba’, with all the volleyball news and action; ‘Fox Sports Radio’, bringing listeners all the football action and ‘Charlas Fox’, interviews with all the top Argentine sportsmen and women.
The fourth season of the show produced by Globomedia (THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO) can be seen every Monday from the 24th February
The Leo Harlem demotivational talks are back on Movistar Plus+ with the premiere of the new season of 'Leo Talks' on Monday 24th February. Eight new episodes which will turning how we see things upside down.
With is particular way of seeing life, how to enjoy it, with the help of the news, stats and Chari, his bad-mannered virtual assistant, Leo Harlem will be offering in the new season of 'Leo Talks', every Monday from February 24th, the following chats: 'Lethal childhood', 'Spaniards against the world', 'Not with you, boy', 'Anatomy failed subject', ‘Naturally bad', 'Rural trap', 'General knowledge' and 'Success, no thanks'.
'Leo Talks' is a parody of the popular TED talks, given by the comic Leo Harlem, with the complete opposite goal of adopting a positive and motivational take of the original talks. It’s a show which provides a different take on the classic stand-up formula. On stage, in front of a live audience and a big screen, Leo sets out his brave thesis on life and lays siege to the established wisdom on multiple topics and concepts that invaded our lives.
A Eumóvil production with the support of Mediatem, Overon, Videoreport and Adisar
For yet another edition, that makes 23, GRUP MEDIAPRO has been producing the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid (MBFWMadrid) strengthening its partnership with IFEMA MADRID as the supplier of audiovisual services for the fashion event which is taking place from 19th to the 23rd February. The event is a Eumóvil production in which companies from the group are also taking part: Mediatem, Overon, Videoreport and Adisar.
Services provided for IFEMA MADRID include the recording and audiovisual production of the fashion shows as well as the production of highlights packages of the shows; satellite services for the live broadcast of the shows streamed live via the official event website and mobile devices, with a varied program schedule of over 10 hours every day from the official MBFWMadrid TV channel with live connections from points of interest from inside Pavilion 14.1, as well as producing content for social media.
MBFWMadrid is Spain’s largest fashion show organized by IFEMA MADRID, which is held twice a year, in February and September. In its 81st edition, more than 30 collections are set to be presented from more than 30 of the best designers in the country, from household names in the general program as well as up- and-coming talent on the EGO catwalk.
The team, which was taking part in its first season of the Rising MediaMarkt organized by LVP (GRUP MEDIAPRO), beat DNSTY 3-1 in the final
The Rising MediaMakrt, the official VALORANT league in Spain organized by LVP (GRUP MEDIAPRO), recently crowned HGE Esports winter champions. The Italian team, making its debut in the competition, along with their rival in the final, beat DNSTY in an even final which went to a fourth map. HGE Esports won the first map in overtime (15-13) but then lost the second map (11-13), as DNSTY got into gear. In the third map, the most one-sided of the final with the Finnish player Ramses “Famsii” Koivukangas, the MVP of the final, on fire, HGE Esports took the map 13-5.
DNSTY pulled out all the stops in the fourth and final map and came very close to taking it and twice they climbed to within two points of the eventual winner (10-8 and 12-10), in key moments of the map but HGE Esports were able to hold them off and the omnipresent Famsii, won the point which gave them the victory.
The Rising MediaMarkt saw both Spanish teams knocked out at the semifinal stage with HGE Esports beating Movistar KOI Fénix in an even game which was decided in the fifth map (3-2), and DNSTY winning by the same scoreline against UCAM Esports, the team that had finished second across the regular season.
The competition launched its new format at the start of 2025 with three seasons across the year which will lead to a final four. The four teams with most points from the three seasons will reach the grand final and crown the Rising MediaMarkt 2025 champion.
Another of the new features for the season is that both HGE Esports and DNSTY will be representing the Rising MediaMarkt in the VALORANT Challengers 2025 EMEA: Stage 1, the European competition which brings together the regional leagues in Europe and which will be played ‘online’ from the 3rd to the 9th March.
The Rising is sponsored by MedaMarkt, Domino’s, Acer Nitro and Intel.
