Mega is a Spanish

television channel A television channel is a terrestrial frequency or virtual number over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the terrestrial or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with ...

owned by

Atresmedia Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación, S.A., previously Grupo Antena 3, is a Spanish media group, present in the television, radio and filmmaking industries. Significant shareholders include Grupo Planeta and Bertelsmann. On 6 Mar ...

. Its programming is aimed towards a male audience. The network is available on digital terrestrial television (TDT as it is known in Spain) as well as cable and satellite.

History

On May 6, 2014,

was forced to close Nitro,

Xplora Xplora was a Spanish TV channel owned by Atresmedia. The channel started broadcasting on 1 May 2012, replacing laSexta2 due its low ratings. On 5 May 2014, the channel ceased broadcasting. Most of its programming were documentaries and reality ...

and

la Sexta 3 laSexta 3 was a Spanish television channel, owned and operated by Atresmedia. It was founded and started to broadcast on 2010. La Sexta 3 currently broadcasts in Spanish language, Spanish. Since 2012 it only broadcast cinema. History The channel ...

channels due to a supreme court ruling, so the programming aimed at the male audience had to be placed on other group channels such as Neox or

LaSexta La Sexta (; "The Sixth"; stylized as laSexta) is a Spanish free-to-air television channel. It is privately owned and was originally founded on 18 March 2001 as Beca TV that began broadcasting on 1 April 2001, that same year. By 21 July 2003, the ...

. After this event, Atresmedia sought to recover the license that was leased to Gol Televisión, setting the end of 2015 as a limit. In May 2015, Atresmedia and Mediapro signed the rescission of the frequency rental agreement, since Mediapro would launch a new channel in association with BeIn Sports, so Gol Televisión would stop broadcasting. During June 2015, Gol Televisión broadcast free-to-air for a few hours to promote the new channel, ending its broadcasts on June 30, which also meant the end of pay DTT in Spain. After recovering the frequency, Atresmedia announced that the new channel would be called Mega, finally the channel began broadcasting on July 1, 2015.

Programming

Mega's programming is aimed at a male audience, including series, action movies, documentaries and

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, as well as sports talk shows such as '' El Chiringuito de Jugones'' and the retransmission of programs that had been broadcast on Antena 3 and

La Sexta La Sexta (; "The Sixth"; stylized as laSexta) is a Spanish free-to-air television channel. It is privately owned and was originally founded on 18 March 2001 as Beca TV that began broadcasting on 1 April 2001, that same year. By 21 July 2003, the ...

. Most of the documentaries and reality shows broadcast on Mega are produced by

The History Channel History (formerly The History Channel from January 1, 1995 to February 15, 2008, stylized as HISTORY) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and the Disney ...

References

External links

Official website
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