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The League ball started rolling last week, but there were people who missed something and it was not the signing of Mbappé.

"What about

Stadium Studio

?".

The legendary RTVE program dedicated to the football day, which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary, was not broadcast.

Instead, women's rugby was scheduled.

Sources from the public network confirm that the program will return, but not immediately, but on

September 16

.

It will do so after an unprecedented revolution.

Paco Caro will replace

Juan Carlos Rivero

as host , his visible face for a decade, and his content will be more informative.

There will be less opinion and most of the collaborators of the previous stage will not repeat.

The analyzes will be carried out by the professionals of the Sports section of the house.

It includes a total change of format:

Estudio Estadio

will no longer be an all-round football space on Teledeporte and will have more multi-sport content.

Of course, the name of the header will not change.

"It is a very serious mistake by Spanish Television that this great program loses its spirit, the one that made it a sports reference in our country for decades," says

Roberto Gómez

, its longest-serving collaborator, with a career on TVE that began in 1980 and the usual reference of the fiery debates between journalists who analyzed what happened on the day of the First and Second Division.

"It is the fever of novelty," continues Gómez, who does not hesitate to wish luck to the colleagues who work in this new

Stadium Studio

, but who believes that the change in format is a mistake: "I think it is a mistake to think that new is always good.

We live in the times of

novolatry

, with a contempt does the old.

It is a trend that harms the viewer who wants to follow the League ».

'Studio Stadium' celebrates its 50th anniversary

Another of the most surprising decisions is the late date of the return.

When it is broadcast, five days of the tournament will have elapsed and two months later there will be a break for the World Cup in Qatar, which will be held from November 20 to December 18.

The partial de-

footballing

of the program is even more curious if one takes into account that the public corporation has bought the broadcasting rights for the World Cup in what is supposed to be its big bet of the season.

"It's been many years, different stages, it doesn't matter, at

Estudio Estadio

," Juan Carlos Rivero wrote on Twitter last July when the first data on the revolution were made public.

«A road is never closed and no stage is eternal.

I continue with what I like.

I am privileged and I can only give thanks for everything I have traveled, for me now, unbeatable, and for what is yet to come.

The changeover in

Estudio Estadio

represents a radical change in the historical grid of television in Spain, since it is the most lasting reference, together with

Informe Semanal

, in the ever-changing programming of public channels, since it was released in 1972 with

Pedro Ruiz

as presenter.

Then his technological bet with the mythical

Moviola

, a slow-motion repetition of the controversial plays, caused a furor.

That was the beginning of a piece of the sentimental memory of television in Spain.


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