Type Daily sports newspaper Owner(s) PRISA Publisher Ignacio Díez | Format Tabloid Founder(s) Luis Montiel Balanzat Editor Alfredo Relaño | |
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Diario AS is a Spanish daily sports newspaper, concentrating particularly on football.
Profile
Diario AS is part of PRISA which also owns El Pais and Cinco Días. The paper particularly covers news of the Madrid football teams: Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid and Rayo Vallecano. It competes directly with MARCA.
In addition to Madrid, the newspaper also has satellite bureaus in Barcelona, Bilbao, A Coruña, Seville, Valencia and Zaragoza.
In May 2012 the newspaper launched an English language sub-site, AS English, offering articles translated from the original Spanish by a dedicated team of native English-language speakers.
The circulation of Diario AS was 181,172 copies in 2001 and 176,892 copies in 2002. It rose to 214,654 copies in 2006.
References
Diario AS Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA