2014 in Spanish television

This is a list of Spanish television related events from 2014.

Events

• 1 January – Animax stops broadcasting.
• 7 February – MTV España becomes a Pay television service under satellite broadcasting platform Canal+.
• 13 February – Intereconomía TV, owned by Intereconomía Corporation, becomes a Pay television, excluding Madrid and Valencia where it keeps broadcasting free-to-air.
• 23 February – La Sexta broadcast the Pseudo-documentary Operación Palace, directed by Jordi Évole, about the 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt, and becomes the most viewed non-sport show in the channel history, with 5,2 million views and 23.9% of share.
• 2 March – La 1 broadcasts a documentary about rares diseases hosted by Isabel Gemio, with Crowdfunding aims, getting 1,2 Million euros.
• 6 May – Spanish TV Channels Xplora, Nitro, La Sexta 3, LaSiete and Nueve close down after a Supreme Court of Spain warrant.
• 25 September – Leopoldo González-Echenique resigns as Chairman of RTVE.
• 2 October - TV channel A&E starts broadcasting, replacing The Biography Channel.
• 23 October – José Antonio Sánchez Domínguez is appointed Chairman of RTVE.
• 29 October –
• Julio Somoano is replaced by José Antonio Álvarez Gundín as Head of the News Department in Televisión Española.
• Television channel ETB 4 starts broadcasting.
• 24 December – First Royal Christmas Message of the new King of Spain Felipe VI with 8,2 million views and 73.4% of share.

Debuts

Television shows

Ending this year

Changes of network affiliation

Deaths

• 22 January – Manu Leguineche, writer and journalist, 72.
• 6 February – Tatiana Sisquella, journalist, 35.
• 24 February – Juan José Plans, writer and journalist, 70.
• 28 February – Dunia Ayaso, director and writer, 53.
• 2 April – Alfonso Bayard, actor, 47.
• 3 April – Pere Ventura, actor, 54.
• 21 April – Ramón Pons, actor, 73.
• 6 June – Darío Barrio, chef and host, 42.
• 4 July – Carmen Hornillos, hostess and journalist, 52.
• 20 July – Álex Angulo, actor, 61.
• 29 July – María Antonia Iglesias, journalist, 69.
• 28 August – Roberto Cairo, actor, 51.
• 2 September – Daniel Dicenta, actor, 76.
• 3 September – Miguel Alcobendas, director, 74.
• 2 October – Pedro Peña, actor, 88.
• 4 October – Joan Molina, actor, 73.
• 15 November – Emiliano Redondo, actor, 77.
• 16 November – Josep Maria Bachs, host, 70.
• 19 November – Koldo Losada, actor, 54.

See also

• 2014 in Spain
• List of Spanish films of 2014

References