The start of the Formula 1 World Championship is just around the cornera championship that in Spain will have the novelty of a change of television operator.
And following several years in the hands of Movistar+, From this year the rights become in the hands of DAZNwith whom it shared a signal until now although the management and staff in charge of retransmissions belonged to the telephone company.
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That change opened the debate regarding the future of Antonio Lobato as a narrator of the races, since there was speculation that DAZN might look for new faces for this stage that is beginning. Well, it won’t be like that.
According to what ‘El Confidencial Digital’ published this Wednesday, the journalist would have decided to accept the OTT proposal. to continue being the voice of Formula 1 in Spain, culminating negotiations that had begun weeks before.
Citing sources familiar with the negotiations, the portal assures that “If you have not already signed the contract with DAZN, you still have to solve a couple of procedures”, but that the predisposition to accept the offer is total.
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The future of the rest of the team that accompanied Lobato is still up in the air since, Apparently, both Pedro Martínez de la Rosa and Toni Cuquerella would have rejected the last offer made by the platform.
In parallel, DAZN is working on incorporating new facesamong which might be the streamer Cristinini. Who will not continue is sure Victor Abadwho presented the program ‘Codigo F1’, and who this Wednesday announced his goodbye through a message on his Twitter account.
“After two fantastic years as part of the great DAZN F1 team, I have decided to stop working with the company and leave Madrid. I’m leaving, but I’m taking with me great friends and great memories of the experience. “Very grateful for the trust” were his words.
We remember that DAZN announced on October 30 that it would exclusively broadcast the Formula 1 World Championship in Spain until 2026 following acquiring the rights to the top competition in world motorsport.
However, At the end of December, DAZN and Movistar Plus+ announced the continuity of their alliancesharing the dissemination of certain sports content, including F1 and the MotoGP World Championship.
