Spain's Government prepares new TV law

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The recently elected socialist Government is taking its first decisions regarding the TV market. The new Administration is preparing a new TV law, called 'Ley General Audiovisual' (General Audio-visual Law), to regulate the entire TV industry, putting an end to the existing chaotic and diverse TV legislation.

"It is about a law that will gather around in just one single piece of legislation all the regulation about television and radio", explained the minister of Industry, Jose Montilla.

The minister also announced the creation of a national Audiovisual Council, called Consejo Superior de Medios Audiovisuales, an independent regulatory body to guarantee pluralism and quality of media contents. This watchdog entity would assume most of the current responsibilities taken by the Telecommunications Market Commission.

Another priority will be DTT. Montilla said that the Government is working on a new Technical Plan - to be introduced shortly - to re-launch DTT. One of the first measures to be taken by the new Government will be the re-allocation of failed DTT operator Quiero's three and a half multiplexes (14 channels).

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Many people are skeptical to those proposals, but they sound at least interesting and worth giving them a chance.

But only one - there has been too many lost ones and if public televisions (2 nationwide channels plus 11 regional channels), were private they would have closed down years ago.