The president of RTVE, José Pablo López, has arrived this Thursday in the career of San Jerónimo with a government plan and has broken down in his first appearance before the Mixed Congress-senated commission on the Spanish public media corporation. The intervention outside the ordinary monthly sessions that will resume in February had been requested extraordinarily by the PP to know its intentions. And the manager has raised during his previous exhibition to the questions of the parliamentarians a “reform” of the informative services of the organization that leads to “the construction of a healthy democracy.” Given the accusations of collusion with the president of the socialist government – whose party proposed to – that a deputy of Vox has launched him, the appearing party has affirmed that he does not know Pedro Sánchez: “I have not exchanged with him or a ‘good morning” .
López has also assured that the plenary held on January 16 are already 15%, while they can reach 20% when the process ends. And he has advanced his intention to reduce his annual salary by 36,000 euros (with a maximum ceiling of 200,844), within the salary decrease in progress for the RTVE direction. Although, he has clarified: “Reorder the organization chart must be carried out with a scalpel and not with a saber, thus avoiding damage that could be difficult to repair.” His parliament has continued with a long breakdown of ads such as the creation of a new “cultural” channel, transparency measures and budgetary control, public collaboration alliances with the EFE agency, and an agreement with UEFA for the issuance of the Eurocup of 2028, among other issues.
For the “reform” of informative services, the president of RTVE will carry out “appropriate consultations to the informative councils” in order to “develop new processes and renew professional culture.” López’s plan foresees a new directive structure to “reduce times in processes”; the construction of a “central information table that is the heart from which the informative products are pumped throughout the corporation”; The guarantee, “from the public, that the citizen is not homeless before the bully”; a remodeling of the 24 -hour channel that puts it in “the center of the news flow”, as well as radio 5 in tune with “the trends implemented in the main international current channels”; alliances, “with Efe to the head”, to “reinforce the presence in Latin America and offer specific products”; and a unified territorial direction “that reinforces the presence of public TV throughout the country.” The evolution of the exposed formula will allow to verify the real scope or if in the end everything changes so that everything remains the same.
After explaining that the provisional deficit of the Corporation in the previous year has reached 33 million euros – but may include “a possible reversion” for various real estate appraisals – and that the reserve fund for the positive results in 2022 and 2023 It reaches 38.3 million – chanting that after compensating the losses of 2023 could be applied to those of 2024 -, López has checked by the positive evolution of the audience on Spanish television. The data that places La1 as the second national chain have been spurred after summer with The revolt by David Broncano, whose controversial signing was the reborn as president of the Corporation recalled that episode during the responses to the deputies by explaining how he learned with “blood” how difficult it is to try to hide something on Spanish television. “It’s like putting a candle under a bed. In this house the walls do not exist. ” In this regard, he said: “Transparency will be a fundamental norm.”
The opposition filtration scandal
On the scandal before which the Court of Instruction number 48 of Madrid maintains as investigated for an alleged crime of revelation of secrets to César Moreno Casado, secretary organization of UGT-RTVE in Madrid, and Julián Pérez Olmos, a member of the Court of Oppositions at UGT’s proposal – according to a brief advanced car by The Spanish newspaper And to which this newspaper has had access – López has explained his decisions in this regard: the request to the law of the state of the personation in the case and a report “relative to the possibility” that the corporation “faces the expenses caused to people affected by filtration “, as well as the opening of” a new labor file to a second worker. “
This extraordinary appearance has taken place one day after both the spokeswoman for Junts in Congress, Miriam Nogueras, and later the Generalitat governed by Salvador Illa (PSC), announced the issuance of a new channel “entirely” in Catalan. The corporation declined on Wednesday to comment on it, while when asked about whether La2 will be broadcast in Catalan, as Nogueras said, López has avoided answering and explained that in his previous stage he began working on the increase in the contents In that language for that channel. And he added: “LA2 in Catalonia makes approximately 2.5% audience. We want to work to expand that presence. I will present a plan to the Council to value it. ”
