What is going on Spanish TV? – Europasur

Questioned by his own employees and with a bleeding wound in audímetros. This occurs for a time the Spanish public television. In recent years, the first chain of TVE has seen its leadership has gone down hill without brakes without anyone blush or attempt to remedy (in July this year has seen record low with an average of 8.9% of share, compared with 21.4% recorded a decade ago). And when it seemed they wanted to amendment, then president of the public body, Leopoldo Gonzalez Echenique, threw in the towel and presented his resignation convinced the politicians wanted to resolve the mess that RTVE at hand, with a debt of more than 700 million euros and a workforce clear discontent also was wary of the possibility that applied on them a record of employment regulation.

And, when it seemed that nothing could go worse, the new president of the public body, José Antonio Sánchez Domínguez was presented, which reignited the alarms of writing, he understood Sánchez around RTVE (was director General TVE 2002-2004) would mean a loss of objectivity in the chain. Maybe they were too close to some controversial moments experienced in the previous stage of Sánchez Domínguez as Alfredo Urdaci reading the statement on the general strike or treatment provided the information to the attacks of 11M. On this basis, the TVE news tips and mobilized iRTVE ago now little more than a month and presented at the Congress of Deputies a total of 1,500 signatures of employees of the corporation who supported the manifesto ‘Ante an extreme situation’ in which a defense of a “plural and independent” before the arrival of television Sánchez Domínguez based on the “professional malpractice” for him in his previous stage was done.

But the protests of workers have not been there. Writing this Friday full again be at war leaving empty their jobs and supporting a seated before the release of the new news director, José Antonio Álvarez Gundín (former chief of view Reason), following the resignations of those responsible for the areas of Society, Culture and International changes that, according to the Council’s Information understand, were not subject to any professional reason but that was only meant to gain control of the government on public television to wash its image.

The protests of workers, as has happened in the past, has found support in social networks, where many professionals like Mary Escario, Fran Llorente, Ana Pastor and Lorenzo Mila, all linked in some moment with RTVE, showed their support for the drafting and called for an independent and pluralistic television.