FC Barcelona will create its own audiovisual production company
After a meeting held at the club, Josep Vives (spokesman for the Catalan club's board of directors) announced that they decided to drop everything corresponding to the audiovisual themes of the institution with the creation of their own production company, Barca Studios. With the aim of creating a new business area, FC Barcelona will not renew the contract with Movistar that binds it until June 30, 2019 in terms of exploitation of audiovisual content. According to the spokesman, "the goal of the entity is to have a Blaugrana platform that, in an orderly manner, can develop content in a powerful and worldwide."
In spite of being in the elaboration phase, it is a new strategic project of production, creation and distribution of all the audiovisual related to the club, including Barca TV. "On the TV channel blaugrana, in fact, will make a firm commitment to him and will have a much larger set and a renewed image" confirmed Josep Vives. Only the Youtube channel comprises 6 million subscribers and Barca TV is one of the most consulted channels by the main media in the world.
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