Canal Toros, a benchmark for innovation and quality, cuts its ponytail and leaves the fans orphaned and disoriented

The definitive closure of Canal Toros is one of the most discouraging news that modern bullfighting has starred in a long time.

A television platform that dealt with the dissemination, promotion and defense of the bullfighting festival in all its fields disappears.

And he will surely be missed.

Definitely.

In the first place, because when a means of communication dies, something falls apart in the soul of all those who follow it, and a space of freedom is broken.

Today, bullfighting fans all have a small wound in the depths of their being, because who more, who less, has been delighted with the brilliant images of the Canal, has been moved by the innovative realization of bullfighting festivities, He has gotten to know bullfighters and ranchers in depth, and has been trained with numerous programs that have shown the history and, often, the little-known corners of the complex world of bullfighting.

Canal Toros has been a fundamental piece for the maintenance of modern bullfighting since its inception.

And not a few fans harbor the suspicion that the long and brilliant stage covered by this company, with its successes and errors,

will not return

And his absence will be noted, for sure.

And, secondly, because the professionals at Canal Toros did it very well.

It is true that a more journalistic, independent and critical criterion was missed in the comments of the live bullfights, but that excessively triumphalist judgment only deceived its authors.

Despite this blur, it was noticeable that behind each celebration there was extraordinary work before, during and after each broadcast.

And how many good informative, debate, social gathering, analysis and broadcast programs have forged the history of a channel that was once a banner of absolute innovation, and that has been able to maintain a level of quality that is difficult to surpass.

Bulls have never been seen as shown by that channel and never has an amateur been so close to the pitons of a bull or the heart of a bullfighter.

Canal Toros was a valuable gift for all fans.

Canal Toros has been since its inception a fundamental piece for the maintenance of modern bullfighting

And the question arises: Why has Movistar decided to put an end to this project?

Who will know the answer?

Anyone knows... The most likely thing is that it will never be known and the permanent doubt will remain whether it was not possible to reach an agreement with the bullfighting companies, if with the number of current subscribers its maintenance was unfeasible, or is it that Movistar has believed that this was the time to move away from a show reviled by politics and that does not enjoy the social perks of political correctness.

The truth is up in the air, but it is possible to make conjectures.

The fact that Canal Toros did not broadcast the 2022 Autumn Fair was a revealing indication that something was wrong.

Nothing is known, either, of those negotiations between the platform and the Las Ventas company.

Started 2023, the rumor mill begins and there is the impression that Canal Toros does not have much interest in taking over the image rights of the season in the Madrid plaza.

And, suddenly, a name appears, OneToro, and on February 1, during the San Isidro gala, a foreign man who claims to be the CEO of the company and who has just signed with Madrid businessmen a television agreement for three years.

Does anyone know if Movistar really negotiated with Plaza 1 or Canal Toros gave way to OneToro before sitting down at the table?

From left to right, Eduardo Dávila Miura, Germán Estela and Maxi Pérez, who have been part of the Canal Toros commentary team.

Other questions: why businessmen like the one from La Maestranza or those from Las Ventas have never spoken with affection about Movistar?

Why have they never publicly valued the enormous work of this channel in favor of the party and have limited their words to the merely commercial field?

Why has Rafael García Garrido, a businessman from Madrid, always referred to Movistar with undisguised disdain?

Why this lack of empathy between negotiators who needed each other?

Nothing is known about the causes that could justify this business attitude, or if Movistar is to blame for the growing detachment.

The bullfighting businessmen evade the answers, but the directors of Canal Toros is that they do not even pick up the phone.

And more questions remain: what has the sector done over the years to retain Movistar?

Do not forget, for example, that the so-called Reconstruction Tour, which kept the party alive during the pandemic, was paid for by Movistar.

Anoet, the bullfighting association, has limited itself to publishing a brief note in which it thanks "the important support that this platform has provided to the world of bullfighting", and makes itself available to the medium "in case it ever decides to undertake new projects related to to bullfighting”.

There is no room for greater coldness in the four lines of businessmen.

On the other hand, does anyone know today what OneToro is?

(By the way, this company has called a press conference for March 2 just a few hours ago, and it is to be assumed that then the mystery will be revealed).

Has the bullfighting sector been concerned to find out if this new company will equal Canal Toros in promoting the festival?

Hopefully it is an error, but the conjectures point to the fact that the bullfighting festival has just received an accurate punch

Because if it is not like that, the closure of Canal Toros will only be a step forward in the disappearance of the party.

So hard and clear.

Be that as it may, it is very bad news that Canal Toros closes on March 23;

cutting a figure's ponytail is always a goodbye filled with nostalgia, and Canal Toros has been a fundamental medium in modern bullfighting.

At the moment, the fans have been orphaned, disoriented and very worried about the future.

It is a great shame that, for whatever reasons, the Canal Toros screen fades to black.

And once again the entire sector will have to be blamed — bullfighters, ranchers and businessmen — (oh, Mr. García Garrido, Mr. Casas and Mr. Valencia!) for not having turned the world upside down so that this platform could continue to live.

Hopefully it is an error, but the conjectures suggest that the bullfighting festival has just received an accurate punch.

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