Radiotelevisión del Principado de Asturias (RTPA; Asturian: ''Radiotelevisión del Principáu d'Asturies'') is a public broadcasting company within the

Asturias Asturias (; ; ) officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwest Spain. It is coextensive with the provinces of Spain, province of Asturias and contains some of the territory t ...

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 is a Spanish professional association football, football club from Gijón, Principality of Asturias. Founded on 1 July 1905, it plays in the ...

and

Racing de Ferrol Racing Club de Ferrol, commonly known as Racing 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 , holding home games at '' E ...

, although the match was provided by

Televisión de Galicia Televisión de Galicia (; "Television of Galicia"; abbreviated as TVG), commonly known as A Galega ("The Galician ne), is a Spanish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Televisión de Galicia S.A., the television subsidiary of ...

. 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 ...

between

Marino de Luanco Club Marino de Luanco is a Spanish football team based in Luanco, in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded in 1931 it plays in , holding home games at '' Estadio Miramar'', with a capacity of 3,500 seats. History Marino Luanco was founde ...

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

and

Real Oviedo Real Oviedo ( Asturian: Real Uviéu) is a Spanish professional football club based in Oviedo, Asturias. Founded on 26 March 1926, the club plays in the Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish football league system. The club plays at ...

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 Hispasat is the operating company for a number of Spanish communications satellites that cover the Americas, Europe and North Africa from orbital positions 30.0° West and 61.0° West. It was formed in 1989 and its activities include provision ...

. The

Radio del Principado de Asturias Radio del Principado de Asturias ( Asturian: ''Radio del Principáu d'Asturies'') is RTPA's principal radio station broadcasting generalist programs. RPA started broadcasting in 2006, and regularly on 21 December 2007. Programs Nowadays RPA b ...

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: **Spani ...

References

External links

RTPA.es
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