La Liga TV is an English

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channel that broadcasts live

La Liga The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaLiga, is the men's ...

football games and content in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is the United Kingdom’s first channel dedicated to showing content from an overseas football league. As well as being a

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, La Liga TV operates as an online streaming service. The channel is part of La Liga president Javier Tebas' aim to move the league from an organiser of games to a global content provider. La Liga is the world's first football league to run its own television channel.

History

La Liga TV was launched on 13 January 2020 through

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's television platform. Lasting for three seasons, the deal made Premier Sports the league's exclusive broadcast partner in the UK and Ireland. Sky customers were given free access to the channel for its first two weeks. It was launched through Sky in the Republic of Ireland on 29 January 2020. Pundits and analysts featured on the channel include

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, Graham Hunter, Terry Gibson,

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, Albert Ferrer,

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Gus Poyet Gustavo Augusto Poyet Domínguez (; born 15 November 1967) is a Uruguayan professional football manager and former footballer. He is currently the head coach of the Greece national football team. Poyet played as a midfielder and began his car ...

Andrea Orlandi Andrea Orlandi Stabilin (born 3 August 1984) is a Spanish former footballer and who played as a winger or an attacking midfielder. He currently works as a scout as well as a pundit for LaLiga+ and Spanish outlet La Media Inglesa, specialize ...

, Toni Padilla,

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Guillem Balagué Guillem Balagué (born 2 November 1968) is a Spanish football journalist, author, and pundit. He was a regular pundit on Sky Sports' show ''Revista de la Liga'' and has also written for some of Britain's newspapers as well as several Spanish new ...

, Duncan McMath, Manu Vieyra and Victor Sanchez del Amo. When La Liga returned in June 2020, after a break enforced by the

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, Sky customers were again given free access to the channel.

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