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Who did Tatxo Benet work for from 2000 to 2001?
Tatxo Benet Josep Maria Benet Ferran ( born June 14 , 1957 ) , better known as Tatxo Benet , is a journalist and Catalan businessman . Biography . He studied Law ( University of Barcelona in Lleida ) and Information Sciences ( Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ) , although he never graduate from either degree , combining his university studies with a budding career in journalism . Benet began his professional career in 1975 in El Diario de Lérida as a staff writer for local news and sports . In December 1976 , he moved to Barcelona to participate in the launch of the newspaper Catalunya Express as a reporter for the Sports section . In June 1977 he returned to Lleida as a correspondent for the national daily El País and from November 1978 , working as a delegate for El Periódico de Catalunya . In September 1980 , Tatxo made what was to be his definitive move to Barcelona to work at El Periódico as editor of Las Cosas de la Vida , being appointed chief-editor of the section in the spring of 1982 . In September 1983 , he joined the founding team of TV3-Televisió de Catalunya with the position of head of the News Department’s Catalonia section . It was here that Tatxo first met Jaume Roures and Gerard Romy . In January 1984 , as TV3 began regular broadcasting , Tatxo 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 Televisió de Catalunya . He presented and directed news section in several newscasts , and directed and presented Tothom per tothom magazine . In June 1987 , Tatxo was appointed Head of the Sports Department , a position he held for almost ten years , until September 1996 . During the period he was Head of Sports , and along with Jaume Roures , TV3 acquired the rights and exclusive broadcasting in Catalonia for the Spanish La Liga and the Copa del Rey , UEFA Champions League , Wimbledon and US Open tennis tournaments , the four Grand Slam golf tournaments : British Open , US Open , Augusta Masters and USPGA , as well as many other top-level Spanish and international competitions , breaking the monopoly held by Spanish Televisión Española up to this point . During this period , the appearance and content of sports programming underwent significant modernization , as well as the way networks utilized different sporting footage and images . In fact , TV3’s Channel 33 was soon transformed into a sports channel given the quality and volume of broadcasts and sports programs the channel featured , especially at weekends . During the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games Tatxo was appointed director and Head of Canal Olímpic , broadcasting the games in Catalan 24 hours a day . With the creation of FORTA , the Federación de Organismos de Radio y Televisión Autonómica , which brings together all the regional autonomous TV and radio networks in Spain , Tatxo was appointed Coordinator and Head of the Sports Division . In January 1997 , Tatxo moved to Madrid and was appointed General Director of Audiovisual Sport , a company participated by Sogecable ( 40% ) , Antonio Asensio ( 40% ) and Televisió de Catalunya ( 20% ) , which was set up to commercialize the media rights to the Spanish Football League . In the summer of 1997 , Antonio Asensio sold their stake in Audiovisual Sport to Telefónica , who had just launched its Via Digital platform . This operation brought about a standoff in the company , given that the two majority shareholders ( Sogecable and Telefonica ) held conflicting positions . Faced with this situation , in September 1997 , Tatxo resigned from his position and returned to Barcelona . Once there , 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 . Contemporary art collection and patronage . In February 2018 he started his contemporary art collection , which he has titled Censored . It consists of more than seventy artworks that were censored at some point in history . The collection includes works by Abel Azcona , Ai Weiwei , Francisco de Goya , Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano . In February 2018 , shortly before it was withdrawn from Arco , Tatxo Benet acquired the piece Presos Políticos en la España contemporánea ( Political Prisoners in Modern-day Spain ) by Santiago Sierra . Outraged by what he considers “an act of intolerable censorship,” he made the piece available to anyone who wishes to exhibit it , with the Museum in Lleida being its first destination , and from where the works of the Sixena Monastery had recently been removed . The work has been shown in more than thirty cities in Catalonia and Spain , and in several European countries . One of the most important pieces in Tatxo Benets Contemporary Art collection is Amen or The Pederasty by Abel Azcona , which was censored and persecuted by the Catholic Church , as well as Piss Christ by Andres Serrano and photographs by Ai Weiwei , which are considered to be some of the most recognized censored artworks in art history . In January 2020 , Benet bought a nude , feminized painting of Mexican Revolutionary General Emiliano Zapata , La Revolución by Fabián Chairez . Descendents of Zapata sued Cháirez for defamation after the painting was exhibited at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City . The painting will be taken to Cataluña to be exhibited alongside 25 other controversial paintings in Benets collection . In 2019 , Tatxo acquired the bookshop llibreria Ona from Montse Úbeda . The bookstore had dedicated over half a century to literature in Catalan and is scheduled to reopen its doors to customers in the center of Barcelona in time for Sant Jordi 2020 .