10 Facts About Tatxo Benet

Tatxo Benet studied law and Information Sciences, although he never graduate from either degree, combining his university studies with a budding career in journalism.

In September 1980, Tatxo Benet made what was to be his definitive move to Barcelona to work at El Periodico as editor of Las Cosas de la Vida, being appointed chief-editor of the section in the spring of 1982.

In January 1984, as TV3 began regular broadcasting, Tatxo Benet was appointed Head of News Assignments.

Since then, and for the next fifteen years until 1997, Tatxo Benet was responsible for a variety of areas and held several managerial positions at Televisio de Catalunya.

Tatxo Benet presented and directed news section in several newscasts, and directed and presented Tothom per tothom magazine.

In June 1987, Tatxo Benet was appointed Head of the Sports Department, a position he held for almost ten years, until September 1996.

In January 1997, Tatxo Benet moved to Madrid and was appointed General Director of Audiovisual Sport, a company participated by Sogecable, Antonio Asensio and Televisio de Catalunya, which was set up to commercialize the media rights to the Spanish Football League.

Once there, Tatxo Benet decided to set up his own company to produce and distribute rights, a company that was to merge with Mediapro, which had been set up some years earlier by Jaume Roures and Gerard Romy.

In January 2020, Tatxo Benet bought a nude, feminized painting of Mexican Revolutionary General Emiliano Zapata, La Revolucion by Fabian Chairez.

In 2019, Tatxo Benet acquired the bookshop llibreria Ona from Montse Ubeda.