José Pablo López warned this before the Appointments Commission of the Congress of Deputies before being appointed president of RTVE at the proposal of the PSOE: clearly exceeded, as well as the reduction of the remuneration received by the presidency of the corporation and the senior management of RTVE ”. Both aspirations come together during his appearance. And it has begun to take shape with his explanations at the plenary session of the board of directors held this Thursday, where López outlined the cuts that will affect the higher structure, made up of 196 management units and 179 organic units.
The president of RTVE has analyzed the weak points of the organization chart. Beyond the localized inefficiencies and overlaps of functions, the first conclusions of his exploration of the gears that move the Spanish public media corporation – made up of almost 7,000 workers and an annual budget of 1.2 billion euros – involve putting the scissors in. to management positions. The seven senior management positions will be the first to be reduced to five, according to internal sources. Next, through a process that will be developed in three phases, adjustments will be made in the following steps of the areas analyzed: from 31 addresses it will go to 25; from 56 area addresses, to 51; and from 109 subdirectorates, to 102. The cuts will later reach several areas still pending study, such as the corporate services directorates, the documentary fund, the information content directorate and the production and media directorate.
The forecast is that the “slimming” of the structure will be accompanied by a reduction in the salaries of the presidency and senior management contracts, although no details of the corresponding reductions have been given. The data updated in 2023 that remains on the RTVE website determines remunerations ranging from 181,228 euros per year for the then interim presidency to 192,227 for the general secretary of the board of directors, passing through 162,752 for the management of the presidential cabinet. , 166,487 for general content management and 198,265 for corporate management, among other positions. In addition to the planned cuts, the intention is to complement this strategy with other measures that promote efficiency in daily management.
The corporation’s deficit in the previous year – RTVE sources estimate that the 2024 deficit will be estimated between 38 and 40 million after various adjustments – has been another of the issues addressed in the plenary session of the board of directors held this Thursday and which was It lasted from morning until mid-afternoon. The working committees have also begun to be formed and mayoral items have been approved, in addition to the unanimous vote of counselor Mercedes de Pablos as the new president of the RTVE Equality Observatory.
Since the renewal of the council at the end of last year by a Government decree, the new body located above the senior management positions is made up of and Under the corresponding decree, all of them have full dedication and an annual remuneration of around 100,000 euros. Accompanying President José Pablo López in the leadership, also at the proposal of the PSOE, are Esther de la Mata (former press chief of the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños), Angélica Rubio, Rosa León and Mercedes de Pablos; Miquel Calçada Olivella, alias Mikimoto, at the proposal of Junts; Sergi Sol, for ERC; Marta Ribas and María Teresa Martín, for Sumar; Mariano Muniesa, for Podemos; and María Roncesvalles Solana, for the PNV. The four councilors proposed by the PP in the Senate are Eladio Jareño, Rubén Moreno, Ignacio Ruíz Jarabo and Marina Vila.
