The public TV slims

RTVE in strike for the slimming remedy and we return to the past with the file programs. Politicians, managers and workpeople differ on the necessary treatment. In Great Britain the almighty BBC he proposes shock therapy: to produce quality programs, to reduce his expansion in Internet, to close magazines and specializing radio stations.

A less expensive public television. The opposite of done last years. The BBC has grown as never. It is already not a radio and television, it is the emblem of what they called the digital Great Britain. Here the previous model of RTVE, constructed by Luis Fernández, was growing elefantiásico like his British model: more channels in the TDT and a project in Internet earlier put aside by the ignorance of a future present fact.

The crisis came and the television needs to slim. The question is what the public service must be in the digital age. The BBC has reigned like Elizabeth II. His throne is indisputable and his empire dominates the television, the radio, Internet and even to the newspapers. In Spain Alberto Oliart, with head of agent and mantita of home-loving viewer in the knees, has come to give vile club to a model with tendency to get out of hand. While, the autonomic telestado devours all that can nicely.

The question is what public service the radio and television redeems in the digital age. Do not ask the proprietors of the private roads, they will say that none. To the viewers' associations? You doubt. The politicians only are interested in the power: licenses, partisan control, to support a business of high visibility. Do not look for it in the new audio-visual law, they will only find ambiguities. Someone should answer sincerely why we have spent so much money in the TDT without making use of the technological change for a universal network of wide band capable of offering all kinds of contents.

More proper production, they ask for the trade unions. More responsibility and a platform of really public contents, we must demand the citizens.

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