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SPAIN / First green light for the bill setting up the new RTVV

The creation of Valencia’s new regional public broadcaster has begun. The first step was taken by the broadcasting committee of the Corts Valencianes’ (Valencian parliament) when they approved the draft law to set up the group which will replace RTVV (Ràdio Televisió Valenciana), closed in 2013 for budgetary reasons. The three political parties which voted …

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SPAIN / Candidate Call for Medimed 2016

The 17th Medimed, the Euro-Mediterranean Documentary Market, will be held from October 13th to 16th 2016 in Sitges, near Barcelona. As every year, the event organized by APIMED (the Association of Independent Mediterranean Producers) will offer a pitching forum, lectures and opportunities for meeting and finding business partners for the best documentary projects from the …

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SPAIN / RTVE ends 2015 in the red

In 2015 the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE made an operating loss of €37.8 million. A statement issued after a Board of Directors’ meeting claimed the deficit was caused by “insufficient income” and should be indemnified by the state, as provided by the law regulating RTVE’s finance. The group’s channels also had poor audience ratings in …

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SPAIN / Eladio Jareño appointed head of TVE

Spanish public television has a new director. At a special meeting of TVE’s Board of Directors on March 8th, Eladio Jareño was elected to run the public service broadcaster. Born in Barcelona, Sr. Jareño was previously head of the Catalonia branch of RTVE (the public broadcasting group which includes TVE). He’s been with the company …

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SPAIN / Podemos wants to re-open RTVV at the end of 2016

The Podemos party has set November 29th 2016 as the date RTVV, the Comunitat Valenciana’s new public broadcaster, will resume transmission. Under an agreement signed in 2015, it is the radical left party’s responsibility to recommission Valencia’s public broadcaster. The date is symbolic: three years ago, on November 20th 2013, after broadcasting for 24 years, …

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SPAIN / Mustang and Truman win at the Goya Awards

On Saturday February 6th the Goya Awards were held in Madrid, bringing together the world of cinema. The major winner of this award was Cesc Gay’s Truman.  

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SPAIN / The main winners of the Gaudi Awards

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On January 31st the Acadèmia del Cinema Català staged the 8th Gaudi Awards. Two films were competing in the official selection: Cesc Gay’s Truman and Agusti Villaronga’s El Rey de la Habana. They took most of this year’s awards.

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