Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2023
Culpable insolvency rulings
Courts found the insolvencies of Intereconomía Televisión and Intereconomía Corporación culpable and ordered former administrator Julio Ariza to cover separate deficits totaling more than €15 million.
2012
FC Barcelona press-access dispute
FC Barcelona temporarily barred Punto Pelota journalists from club facilities, citing alleged breaches of journalistic ethics related to an interview technique. The club sought a public apology before the restriction was lifted.
2010
García Serrano comments about Marina Geli
Commentator Eduardo García Serrano made misogynistic and insulting remarks about Catalan health minister Marina Geli during El gato al agua. He later apologized, and a Madrid court in 2014 convicted him and the channel of serious public defamation, awarding Geli €18,000.
2010
Advertising discrimination fine
The Spanish Ministry of Industry fined Intereconomía €100,000 over an advertisement that distinguished between supposedly normal people and gay people. The Audiencia Nacional later annulled the fine on appeal.
2009
Staged El Gran Wyoming video
Intereconomía broadcast covert footage purporting to show El Intermedio presenter El Gran Wyoming mistreating an intern. La Sexta later disclosed that the footage had been staged as a sting intended to criticize Intereconomía’s verification and journalistic practices.