diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/mitele.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/mitele.py
index 55fa83b51f..0dded38c65 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/mitele.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/mitele.py
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 from .telecinco import TelecincoBaseIE
-from ..networking.exceptions import HTTPError
 from ..utils import (
-    ExtractorError,
     int_or_none,
     parse_iso8601,
 )
@@ -81,17 +79,7 @@ class MiTeleIE(TelecincoBaseIE):
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         display_id = self._match_id(url)
-
-        try:  # yt-dlp's default user-agents are too old and blocked by akamai
-            webpage = self._download_webpage(url, display_id, headers={
-                'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0',
-            })
-        except ExtractorError as e:
-            if not isinstance(e.cause, HTTPError) or e.cause.status != 403:
-                raise
-            # Retry with impersonation if hardcoded UA is insufficient to bypass akamai
-            webpage = self._download_webpage(url, display_id, impersonate=True)
-
+        webpage = self._download_akamai_webpage(url, display_id)
         pre_player = self._search_json(
             r'window\.\$REACTBASE_STATE\.prePlayer_mtweb\s*=',
             webpage, 'Pre Player', display_id)['prePlayer']
diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/telecinco.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/telecinco.py
index a34f2afd4a..2dbe2a7768 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/telecinco.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/telecinco.py
@@ -63,6 +63,17 @@ class TelecincoBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
             'http_headers': headers,
         }
 
+    def _download_akamai_webpage(self, url, display_id):
+        try:  # yt-dlp's default user-agents are too old and blocked by akamai
+            return self._download_webpage(url, display_id, headers={
+                'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0',
+            })
+        except ExtractorError as e:
+            if not isinstance(e.cause, HTTPError) or e.cause.status != 403:
+                raise
+            # Retry with impersonation if hardcoded UA is insufficient to bypass akamai
+            return self._download_webpage(url, display_id, impersonate=True)
+
 
 class TelecincoIE(TelecincoBaseIE):
     IE_DESC = 'telecinco.es, cuatro.com and mediaset.es'
@@ -140,7 +151,7 @@ class TelecincoIE(TelecincoBaseIE):
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         display_id = self._match_id(url)
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, display_id)
+        webpage = self._download_akamai_webpage(url, display_id)
         article = self._search_json(
             r'window\.\$REACTBASE_STATE\.article(?:_multisite)?\s*=',
             webpage, 'article', display_id)['article']