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They assure that Chivas is very close to leaving TUDN as a television station for its broadcasts

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By Edgardo Avelar

Apr 19, 2024, 10:24 PM EDT

Chivas de Guadalajara are one step away from making a historic decision according to unofficial versions with the change of television company for the transmission of its Liga MX matches from the TUDN company to Amazon, which would imply the spearhead of an opening of the negotiation on the transmission rights of the Liga MX teams. Liga MX, where for decades the companies Televisa and TV Azteca were divided, with some intervention in some Fox Sports and ESPN teams.

Chivas currently has a contract with the Telemundo company. which they signed last year for their broadcasts in the United States, but Amazon’s intention is to become the company that owns all the rights to the Guadalajara team, both men’s and women’s, in order to also have the rights in the American Union.

As the end of the term for contract renewal with TUDN approaches, rumors of a change of company to Amazon by Chivas with the aim of expanding the coverage of its image to the United States, South America and Spain, it was learned that the change of television station is more than a simple possibility, especially because The Chivas do not agree at the time of the contract they had with the television company part of the Televisa corporate.

The contract of Televisa with Chivas concludes at the end of the Clausura 2024 tournament and according to all the versions known to them on the subject, Amazon has made several offers to exceed the 20 million dollars that the Chapultepec 18 company is unofficially known to pay and which the North American corporation would be willing to exceed the offer and put on the table. a much more attractive offer to the Guadalajara board.

Amazon’s intention is to enter the Mexican market after having reached a multimillion-dollar agreement with Major League Soccer (MLS) and it is an object of desire for its commercial intentions, offering the attractive amount of money, but above all putting all its platforms at the command of Chivas to enhance the image of Chivas to other markets to which the current company that owns their transmission rights.

Faced with Chivas’ intentions to change television companies The version arose that the Mexican Football Federation, through its high commissioner Juan Carlos Rodríguez, had the intention of destroying this agreement with a new collective offer for the entire Liga MX, which would give the option to the Chapultepec television station 18 being able to negotiate with the teams in the first instance.

Chivas would be about to sign a broadcasting contract with the North American company Amazon, leaving aside a historic relationship with Televisa. Photo: Imago7.

It will be in the next few days when the course of the negotiations will be known. and if Chivas will actually make the change of television company a reality, which will be a historic decision among the Liga MX teams:

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