Note: Up-to-the-minute
news is also available from Usenet groups,
particularly alt.culture.bullfight.
EFE | This Spanish news agency (wire service) provides the most up-to-the-minute taurine news on the net, often -- during the height of the Iberian temporada anyway -- posting dozens of news items each day, often very shortly after the events occur. The news is available in two separate groupings:
Domestic (i.e., Spanish)
taurine news items The site is, of course, 100% Spanish-language, but hey, here's a little motivation to get out your dictionary. |
Toros |
It is now possible to use your computer to listen to live, broadcast radio, including this Spanish-language taurine program, conducted by Mariví Romero, an highly-thought-of Spanish taurine commentator.
The program is broadcast in Spain every Monday at 1:30 AM (that is 23:30, Sunday, GMT) by Onda Cero. To receive the broadcast, you must have installed the program, RealAudio -- available free-of-charge to non-commercial users -- and you must, of course, have multimedia capability in your computer (sound card, speakers, etc.). |
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A short-wave radio broadcast by Radio Exterior de España (REE) --
0210 GMT on Monday for 50 minutes; 0210 GMT on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday for 5 minutes; and 0215 GMT on Sunday for 20 minutes.
REE's frequencies are: North America - 6.055 KHz, Band 49, 302 degrees; 9.540 KHz, Band 31, 290 degrees; 9.630 KHz, Band 31; South America - 11.815 KHz, Band 25. REE is also available via satellite transmission on the 7.56 MHz sub-carriers on channel TVE Internacional on the Eutelsat II F2 and Hispasat satellites. (Information provided by Tim Hardman in the alt.culture.bullfight FAQ.) |
Tendido Siete | This one-hour program from Colombia is broadcast every Sunday at 7:30PM local time (GMT - 5 hrs). The signal can be captured at the following short-wave frequencies: 5.075 Mhz in the internacional band at 49 mts. Also, during the bullfight season, in December and January, the corridas de toros of the Ferias of Cali, Manizales, Cartagena de Indias, Medellín and Bogotá are transmitted. These transmisions begin one hour before the corridas, at 2:00 p.m.
Also during the season there are daily programs summarizing the corridas, at 7:30PM local time.
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y Sombra |
30 minute, Spanish-language broadcast TV program (XEWT, Tijuana -- Cox
Cable in border areas -- both 19:00 PST, Monday evenings), including film
clips of the most recent Mexican bullfights, interviews with the participating
matadors, man-on-the-street interviews recorded at the corridas, etc. |
Tendido Cero | Live bullfights from Spain (sometimes from France and South America) on Spanish channel TVE Internacional which is available in Europe on the Hot Bird satellite at 13 degrees East on 11.220 Ghz (H), audio 6.60 Mhz and in the Americas on the Hispasat satellite at 30 degrees West on 12.078 GHz (V), audio 6.80 Mhz. It is also available in Europe via cable. Fifteen-minute review programs are also shown from the ferias of the Fallas (Valencia), April Fair (Seville) and San Isidro (Madrid). The encierros of Pamplona are also shown live. TVE Internacional is based around national television station TVE1 and schedules are available on Teletext on page 401. "Tendido Cero" the weekly review programme is shown in Spain on TVE2 therefore is not available at present.
(Information provided by Tim Hardman in the alt.culture.bullfight FAQ.) |
Toros y Deportes |
A weekly review shown on Monday evenings around 2100 GMT on the Mexican network, "Galavision" (in Europe on the Astra satellite). (Information provided by Tim Hardman in the alt.culture.bullfight FAQ.) |
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anywhere they are available -- please send them to
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