04. Education, information and entertainment in transformation Annual Report 2013 75 Spanish productions and released films including La piel que habito, No habrá paz para los malvados, Eva, Chico y Rita, Mientras duermes, Torrente 4 and Blackthorn (Sin destino). With regards to TV series, HBO continued to supply Canal+ with high-quality titles such as Game of Thrones (the second season), Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom and Golden Globes winners Girls and Game Change. In addition, Canal+ viewers remained hooked on Boardwalk Empire (season three), Mad Men (season five) and Boss (seasons one and two).There were also original productions from Canal+, with the widely anticipated Falcon, which follows on from the success of Crematorio and ¿Qué fue de Jorge Sanz?. Falcon is an international co-production which sees Canal+ teaming up with the German ZDF and Sky Atlantic HD. The series, set in Seville, follows the investigations of inspector Javier Falcon, a complex, ambiguous and dark character, at home in a dark and brutal Seville. Falcon is a four-part series based on the books The Blind Man of Seville and The Silent and the Damned by British writer Robert Wilson.There was plenty more on offer on Canal+. In sports, the NBA, exclusive Wimbledon coverage, tennis Masters 1000 in HD, the best of world golf, plus a memorable Ryder Cup in Medina, the Six Nations Rugby and the Super Bowl, to name but a few. In the documentary genre, Canal+ broadcast Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, America in Primetime -which reviews some of the most compelling shows on television today- further episodes from #canalplusestademoda and BBC’s extraordinary production Frozen Planet. All this plus interviews on Iñaki and the absurd humor of Ilustres ignorantes. Informe Robinson consolidated its following and its reputation for quality sports journalism in its fifth season. Also successful were the weekly magazine-format show Tentaciones and the new Reportajes Canal+ with Jon Sistiaga, which won the 2012 Ondas Award in the category of “best special news coverage.”. More content, more services, more High Definition Canal+’s multichannel platform has continued to incorporate new content from different genres and remains committed to high definition, in order bring our subscribers the most complete and varied programming on the market. Since 2012, Canal+ viewers have been able to enjoy a new channel dedicated to the Champions League (Canal+ Liga de Campeones) that serves up all the matches from the league, live and simultaneously thanks to our Multiscreen service. There are two new channels covering the world of motor sport (El Garage TV and Motors TV), a channel devoted entirely to fashion (Fashion TV) and four new HD versions of channels that provide greater detail, maximum sharpness and better sound ( (Canal+ Golf HD, Canal+ 2 HD, FOX CRIME HD, and TAQUILLA2 HD). Canal+ customers rate highly our commitment to high definition, allowing them as it does, to enjoy all the action on a large screen without losing picture quality. All this is made possible through the iPlus terminal, the advanced decoder used by more than 30 % of the customer base. Services that provide added value to content are also being expanded. Thus, for example, Canal+ has started to add English subtitles to their series, allowing the viewer to follow them in their original version with subtitles. Meanwhile, FOX has created a specific Original Version slot allowing us to broadcast series closer in time to their premieres in the United States. YOMVI: Canal+ content wherever and whenever the user wants 2012 was a year of consolidation for YOMVI, Canal+’s solution for the online environment, which offers live TV and video on demand (VOD). The brand was created last year in order to bring premium Canal+ programming to the connected world. It will continue to grow and adapt to current and future demand as part of the digital transformation strategy to which PRISA TV is firmly committed. Canal+’s YOMVI, which brought subscribers a new way of enjoying television, has grown to reach any audience even if they are not a client of the platform. A new, very competitive package enables any user to access the contents of Canal+ in one of two ways:
PRISA Annual Report 2013
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