Radiotelevisión del Principado de Asturias (RTPA) is a public broadcasting company within the

Asturias Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensiv ...

created in 2005. Since 2011, its general director is Antonio Virgili.

History

Televisión del Principado de Asturias Televisión del Principado de Asturias (Asturian language, Asturian: ''Televisión del Principáu d'Asturies'', English language, English: ''Television of the Principality of Asturias'') is the first channel from Radiotelevisión del Principado de ...

made its first test broadcast on 20 December 2005 at 21:00. On 7 January 2006, TPA broadcast its first sports coverage with a football match between

Sporting de Gijón Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D. (), commonly known as Real Sporting, Sporting Gijón, or simply Sporting (although in an international context this can lead to confusion with Sporting Clube de Portugal) is a Spanish football club from Gijón, ...

and

Racing de Ferrol Racing Club de Ferrol is a Spanish football team based in Ferrol, Province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia. Founded in 1919, the club currently plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 1, holding home games at '' Estadio ...

, although the match was provided by Televisión de Galicia. The next day, another football game was broadcast, this time at

Gozón Gozón is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. Its capital is the town of Luanco (also called Lluanco). The Cantabrian Sea lies on its northern edge, and it is bordered to the south by Corvera de As ...

between Marino de Luanco and Cultural de Durango, but this time produced by themselves.La TV regional, aún en pruebas, emite hoy su primer partido de fútbol
ABC, 8 January 2006 During the first months, all the weekend games of

, Marino de Luanco and Real Oviedo were broadcast. On 6 June 2006, TPA started regular broadcasts with news broadcasting. On September that year, RTPA started radio service tests and broadcasts via satellite through Hispasat. The Radio del Principado de Asturias started regular broadcastings on 21 December 2007.

Divisions

Televisión del Principado de Asturias 2 Televisión del Principado de Asturias 8 is a Spanish television channel, launched in 2010. It was founded and started to broadcast in 2010. TPA8 currently broadcasts in Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards ...

* Radio del Principado de Asturias

References

External links

RTPA.es
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