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Broadcasting in Peru

ATV (Peruvian Network) share the rights to host the games. They will both broadcast them in Peru.

Broadcasting in Spain

The public Spanish network TVE has a High Definition channel TVE-HD which can be tuned in the Digital+ pay package. I can't edit the broadcaster box. Please somebody add this.

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