Turning point on Pasapalabra. The Antena 3 contest will experience a historic and not particularly happy night this Thursday: it will definitively say goodbye to the rosco, the popular final test that allows contestants to access the large cash prize. The elimination is due to the ruling from late May by the Supreme Court which confirmed that the test is part of a work protected by intellectual property and that its ownership belongs to the Dutch company MC&F and not ITV, the production company that licenses the broadcast rights of the contest to Antena 3. The judicial decision implies that the channel cannot broadcast the rosco. Furthermore, to comply with the ruling, Antena 3 has also had to remove from its online platform, Atresplayer, the episodes of the contest in which the test appears, a total of 1,540 episodes.

The serial for the rights to the program Pasapalabra adds a new chapter. The media group Mediaset must pay 45 million euros to the ITV Studios group, owner of the intellectual property rights to the contest, for the profits obtained during the broadcast of the program between 2010 and 2019. This is what the commercial court number 6 of Madrid has decided, which considers that Mediaset must restore the group formed without having the rights.