A melt TV - The País.com (Spain)

Telemadrid has not fade to black as the Valencia Channel 9, but the rawness of the last year and a half has left the molten Madrid public television. The ERE that claimed 74 -861% of the workforce of 1,169 employees laid-jibarizó chain to the extent necessary to remain open. After the layoffs, only one could make their own production reduced to information services and filling the rest of the grid with canned refried. Telemadrid had more workers to the ERE that Antena 3 and Telecinco strings together.

A month to celebrate its 25th anniversary, the chain-which began broadcasting on May 2, 1989 and lived his splendor one share of 35.5% with the broadcast of the Committee of Inquiry tamayazo in 2003 – faces an uncertain horizon, with audience share slumped to 3.8%. And with a budget in a year has fallen sharply from 200.6 million euros in the year of 2013 to 80.3 in 2014.

The Supreme Court’s decision to ratify the decision of the High of Justice of Mad rid, who last April ruled that the ERE, is the defeat of the Community in the courts and at the same time, a political victory for Ignacio Gonzalez. The regional president has drawn the scenario that worried him most. ERE zero that would have required to reinstate workers fired in office

One option that the regional government never contemplated and would have concluded with the closing medium, with consequent fire in the streets after the recent fiasco Eurovegas and waiver to the privatization of six hospitals, striking in the white tide head health minister, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty claimed. The invalidity of the ERE would have been the last straw for the aspirations of González, a year of regional elections, Mariano Rajoy for which continues without revealing who the candidate or candidate’s Party.

From Hence the alternative of having to double compensation to redundant (more than 50 union representatives themselves could return), they will receive compensation of 45 days per year worked with a maximum of 42 months to February 2012, and 33 days and 24 months from that date, rather than 20 days to be paid a maximum of 12 months, has been received by the Community and the manna. Although suppose having to pay 22 million to the process, add ing to the 26 million already earmarked to ERE.

accounts Telemadrid would not come to stay long before the edge. In the six years prior to the ERE, the string received 618 million euros of public money. 481 program contract came from the Community and 137 extraordinary contributions

At the end of 2011, ie two years before the catastrophe shaped ERE and three out of four employees on the street, the debt exceeded 260 million.

2014, the regional government plans to reduce the program contract January 1 , 6%, from 70.9 to 69,800,000 (an extremely important part of a total budget that comes down from 200.6 to 80,300,000). Commercial revenues would provide 10.5 million. In turn, staff costs following layoffs decrease by 37 million (55 to 18). The forecast for the year are about 2.7 million red numbers, for the 10.5 last year.

However, the regional government was not expecting a result adverse to their interests. Just hours before he ripped the last full day 20 in the Assembly of Madrid, the last of the month, the PP agenda withdrew a question about the “prospects for 2014″ that the Executive had Gonzalez for Telemadrid . Six days after the Supreme rule on the ERE, the gesture was interpreted as a sign of trust and confidence by the Community. “The PP talk Telemadrid intended to remind the judges that declared null if the record of employment regulation, then shut broadcasting. Dropping to, showed that they expected a favorable prognosis interests “point in the regional parliament.

” The Supreme court gives certainty for future planning of public television and therefore warrants Telemadrid viability, “said the number two in the Community, Salvador Victoria. “It seems that they were not responsible for a bad management that caused a financial liabil ity of more than 100 million last year,” criticizes Freedom Martinez, deputy regional IU. The debt has gone this course.

In the time that has passed until final resolution of the dismissed, Radio Television Madrid has survived as it could. With 62 to 24 informative pro a week, not counting the daily broadcast weekdays at Noon Open. An impossible mission in which there has been no substitutions except for a handful of maternity leave, long-lived, and worsened by the dismissal, among other unions, from the makers of the house. Technical support is covered with three teams of external embodiment, Telefonica Broadcast Services outsourced to issue the signal from the parking Telemadrid headquarters in the City of the image.

A workaround with the employees who remain in the chain have pulled remained closed while conducting studies. Yes, with computers in mint condition. Like the hundred cameras, tools unclaimed-Telemadrid the last year has had a dozen external cam eras, the CBM-producing stored awaiting better times. Those who have gone directly leasing cars are labeled chain. “It has taken nearly 900 workers then transfer what they did to services and outside contractors, some near PP” says Miguel Aguado. Socialist MP in the Madrid Assembly complaint that despite the large number of redundant public payroll Ente has remained a dozen executives with salaries above 100,000 euros.

The Supreme has cleared the panorama of Radio Television Madrid. Community plans are to “formalize a rush” Telemadrid. To overcome the shadow that the chain has turned the dial way up, at least initially, by outsourcing programs and the technical department. The first symptom of the revival of Telemadrid was Thursday, with the issuance of Route 179, an embryo-Direct Madrid with former journalists of being, now engaged in a producer-and the first cuasipropio program after the ERE.

However, the return to normality after the conflict is expected hardness slow. Another thing are the doubts about the independence of the agency. “I hope that the regional government do what it has never done: public television really, with a public service to citizens, pluralist, non-sectarian,” asks Luis de Velasco, UPyD spokesman in the Assembly. Just what the Press Association of Madrid demands for the string: “An independent and transparent public television Madrid, managed with rigor and austerity, with enough to fulfill their missions of general interest financing and a neutral, plural and information services committed to accuracy and fairness. “