The closure of Radio Television Valenciana plays a year with two … – infoLibre

The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Alberto Fabra. EFE

Radio Television Valenciana (RTVV) will meet this Saturday a year since I became black, in a context in which are in the air two new public television , one announced by the President of the Council of Valencia, Alfonso Rus, which is expected to start on January 1, and futurible not rule the head of the Consell, Alberto Fabra, depending on economic conditions.

-old Canal Nou Nou Ràdio 9- and stopped broadcasting on November 29, 2013, just 24 days after Fabra announced its intention to terminate this service, after few hours knowing the judgment of the Superior Court of Valencia (TSJCV) annulling the Record of Employment Regulation (ERE) affecting a thousand workers. The reactions were not long in coming. The opposition bloc called for the resignation of Alberto Fabra and worker protests have since been continuous.

“I do not strike a school or a hospital to have a regional television” Fabra said to justify the decision. From the first moment said that the closure was “non-negotiable” because there was “no choice” for the cost I had to keep a TV with more than 1,600 workers.

The head Consell warned they would “soon” and fulfilled. On November 29 the Consell ended 24 years of existence of the public radio and television Valencia that began October 9, 1989 with the Socialist Joan Lerma as president of the Generalitat. The radio stopped broadcasting at midnight and television lasted a few hours, until at 12.19 hours became black.

To do this, previously the PP had to take the city of the Valencian Parliament a proposal for law authorizing the Consell to liquidate RTVV. The initiative managed 49 pronouncements in favor PP and 42 against opposition MPs that they turned from their seats in protest. In the vote involved three regional deputies who in 1984 passed the Law Creating RTVV. Specifically, the ‘popular’ Rita Barberá and Rafael Maluenda and the socialist Angel Luna. Maluenda Barbera and were, therefore, the only MPs who voted for the creation and 29 years after the settlement did asking.

The last hours

During the closing night RTVV, public company workers and representatives of the opposition parties in the Corts managed to get inside the Production Center Burjassot -some programs through a window-, shouting ‘It will not close’ and calling for the resignation of President de la Generalitat .

The chairman of the company RTVV at the time of closing, Vicent Mifsud said that was a “traumatic” night for workers , but also “to all the Valencian society.” He also expressed “frustration” they felt, because “there were alternatives to television continue a viable and would not attend.”

The socialist deputy and journalist Josep Moreno, who was in those last hours of programming, recalls that at first felt “disbelief”, hence it became a state of “deep shame” and then “to a feeling of sadness and impotence” .

“It has marked our history”

The coordinator then EUPV and Trustee of this group, Marga Sanz said he lived “an emotional and sad night” to “has marked our history “ as well as” the life we ​​were there. “

Similarly, spokesman Compromís in Corts, Enric Morera, has indicated that evening lived “a historic moment” for the “great injustice” that was committed. In his view, closing RTVV was “the symbol of change.”

The three parliamentary groups acquired the commitment to re-launch a new RTVV if govern the future. In fact, they have come to shuffle date of opening the 9th October 2015 s win the elections of May.

Television Council

Yet one year after closing, there are new proposals for a public television . The Council of Valencia recently tendered by 2.685 million euros, excluding VAT, its own service. The president of the provincial corporation, Alfonso Rus, said this television, which is expected to begin broadcasting on Jan. 1, will be “very open” and “have no political reason”.

Rus He noted that the contents, mainly in Valencian, will focus on the activity of municipalities . The contract requires knowledge of programming each month but “not to check it politically, but technically,” the provincial president.

Also, Alberto Fabra was “ready” to talk about a new RTVV , “in other circumstances, where the economy permits, and being a reputable television and especially adjusted to the needs of citizens”. As a condition set that has “fiscal stability” and the deficit targets are met.

This announcement Fabra has drawn criticism from the opposition. The secretary general of PSPV, Ximo Puig, has called “irrevocable resignation” the head of the Consell for his “irresponsible”, while the deputy spokesman of Compromís, Monica Oltra, has claimed Fabra available to open a new RTVV to “internal wars” with Rus. Meanwhile, EUPV spokesman, Ignacio Blanco, believes it is “as if Franco had said he was willing to bring democracy.”