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{{Short description|Spanish state-owned public corporation}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox company
| name = RTVE
| trade_name = Radiotelevisión Española
| native_name_lang = es
| logo = Logo RTVE.svg
| logo_size = 
| logo_caption = Logo used since 2008
| image = Edificio TVE.jpg
| image_size = 
| image_caption = Prado del Rey (headquarters)
| type = ''[[S.A. (corporation)|Sociedad Anónima]]''<br>''[[General State Administration|Sociedad mercantil estatal]]''
| genre = [[Public broadcasting|Public service broadcasting]]
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1973|10|11|df=y}} (as Centralised Public Service)<br>{{Start date and age|2007|01|01|df=y}} (as Corporation)
| hq_location = [[Prado del Rey (studios)|Prado del Rey]]
| hq_location_city = [[Pozuelo de Alarcón]]
| hq_location_country = Spain
| origins = 
| key_people = [[José Pablo López]] ([[Chair of RTVE|chair]])
| area_served = 
| industry = Mass media
| services = {{ubl
|[[Television]]
|[[Radio]]
|[[Internet]]
}}
| revenue = {{Increase}} [[Euro|€]]1.25 billion<ref name="CA24">{{Cite news|url=https://www.rtve.es/contenidos/corporacion/2024_Cuentas_Anuales_Informe_de_Gestion_y_EINF.pdf|title=RTVE Annual Report 2024|year=2024|access-date=4 July 2025|language=es|author=RTVE}}</ref>
| revenue_year = 2024
| operating_income = 
| net_income = {{Increase}} ([[Euro|€]]12.8 million)<ref name="CA24"/>
| net_income_year = 2024
| assets = {{increase}} €1.52 billion (2024)<ref name="CA24"/>
| num_employees = {{increase}} 6,770 (2024)<ref name="CA24"/>
| divisions = {{Plain list|
* {{lang|es|[[Televisión Española]]|i=no}}
* {{lang|es|[[Radio Nacional de España]]|i=no}}
* {{ill|Interactivos RTVE|es|lt=RTVE.es}}
* {{ill|RTVE Instituto|es}}
* [[RTVE Symphony Orchestra|Orchestra and Choir]]
}}
| owner = [[Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales|SEPI]] (100%)
| website = {{URL|https://www.rtve.es/|rtve.es}}
| dissolved = 
| footnotes = 
}}

The '''{{lang|es|Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española|i=no}}'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rtve.es/?go=111b735a516af85c803e604f4546adce4c9885a8e53805c69ad49e29577ac993aa2a0658da481224a699055535e6bf81594846cba88d55646e1e748d003b98d73052eccb9992d97257c8820a3868ef10 |title=Corporación RTVE |work=Rtve.es |access-date=16 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130908054509/http://www.rtve.es/?go=111b735a516af85c803e604f4546adce4c9885a8e53805c69ad49e29577ac993aa2a0658da481224a699055535e6bf81594846cba88d55646e1e748d003b98d73052eccb9992d97257c8820a3868ef10 |archive-date=8 September 2013 |language=es}}</ref> ({{IPA|es|koɾpoɾaˈθjon de ˈraðjoj teleβiˈsjon espaˈɲola|lang}}; {{translation|Spanish Radio and Television Corporation|literal=yes}}), known as '''{{lang|es|Radiotelevisión Española|i=no}}''' (acronym '''RTVE'''), is the Spanish national radio and television [[Public broadcasting|public broadcaster]]. It provides multi-station television ({{lang|es|[[Televisión Española]]|i=no}}) and radio services ({{lang|es|[[Radio Nacional de España]]|i=no}}), as well as online and streaming services ([[RTVE Play]]).

The current corporation is a state-owned enterprise formed in 2007 to succeed the ''Ente Público Radiotelevisión Española'' (RTVE Public Entity). Since the entry into force of the RTVE Financing Act of 2009, RTVE is primarily funded by a combination of subsidies from the [[General State Budget]] and a fee levied on the private agents' [[gross revenue]] (3.0% for private free-to-air channels, a 1.5% for private subscription channels and a 0.9% for telecom companies).

RTVE is a full member of the [[European Broadcasting Union]] (EBU). The corporation's central headquarters, [[Prado del Rey (studios)|Prado del Rey]], are located in [[Pozuelo de Alarcón]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elconfidencialdigital.com/articulo/medios/tve-presentara-todo-alto-nueva-temporada-proximo-9-octubre/20210824190829270263.html|website=El Confidencial Digital|date=25 August 2021|title=TVE prepara un lanzamiento por todo lo alto de la nueva temporada para dar imagen de cambio de ciclo}}</ref>

==History==
=== Precedents ===
Spanish state-wide public broadcasting services have undergone numerous [[restructuring]]s and reorganisations throughout its history, and have [[rebranding|assumed several identities]]. Their history may be traced back to the first radio broadcasts of {{lang|es|[[Radio Nacional de España]]|i=no}} (RNE) from [[Salamanca]], developed as a propaganda tool for the [[Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War)|Rebel faction]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. RNE was founded on 19 January 1937 and was subservient to the State Delegation for Press and Propaganda led by [[Vicente Gay Forner]].<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/326228228.pdf|title=La censura radiofónica en la España nacional (1936-1939)|first=Emeterio|last=Díez|journal=Zer|issn=1137-1102|issue=24|year=2008<!--|pages=103–124-->|page=110}}</ref>

Throughout the [[Francoist dictatorship]], the national radio service depended successively on the [[FET y de las JONS]]'s [[Vice-Secretariat for Popular Education]] (VSEP), on the {{ill|Ministry of National Education (Spain)|es|Ministerio de Educación Nacional (España)|lt=Ministry of National Education}} (since 1945) and on the [[Ministry of Information and Tourism]], since the creation of the latter in 1951.<ref>{{Cite journal|first1=Salvador|last1=Gómez García|first2=Juan|last2=Martín Quevedo|year=2012|title=Del Yugo a la Cruz. Radio Nacional de España: una radio en transición (1945–1951)|journal=Área Abierta|publisher=[[Complutense University of Madrid|Ediciones Complutense]]|location=Madrid|volume=12|url=https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ARAB/article/view/40556/38886|issue=3|page=3|doi=10.5209/rev_ARAB.2012.v33.40556|doi-access=free}}</ref> In July 1945, in the wake of the transfer of responsibilities over Press and Propaganda to the Ministry of National Education, radio broadcasting became a standalone directorate general: the ''Dirección General de Radiodifusión'' ('Directorate General for Radio Broadcasting').<ref>{{Cite journal|first=Rosa|last=Cal|title=Apuntes sobre la actividad de la Dirección General de Propaganda del Franquismo (1945–1951)|journal=Historia y Comunicación Social|issn=1137-0734|issue=4|year=1999|pages=15 |url=https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/HICS/article/view/HICS9999110015A/19605%7C|publisher=[[Complutense University of Madrid|Ediciones Complutense]]|location=Madrid}}</ref>

After some time on trial, the first regular {{lang|es|[[Televisión Española]]|i=no}} (TVE) signal was broadcast on 28 October 1956 from the Paseo de la Habana in Madrid, reaching the roughly 600 television receivers existing in the city at the time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elespanol.com/bluper/television/20161030/primera-emision-tve-hace-anos-televisores/166484402_0.html|title=Así fue la primera emisión de TVE hace 60 años (ante 600 televisores)|first=Daniel|last=Jabonero|date=30 October 2016|website=Bluper|publisher=[[El Español]]}}</ref> On 11 October 1973, the two networks for respectively radio and television broadcasting, RNE and TVE, were consolidated into the ''Servicio Público Centralizado Radiotelevisión Española'' ('RTVE Centralised Public Service'). Up until the 1980s, with the creation of regional broadcasters [[EITB|ETB]] and [[TV3 (Catalonia)|TV3]], TVE held the monopoly on television broadcasting in the country.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ESMP/article/view/68672/4564456553308|year=2020|publisher=[[Complutense University of Madrid|Ediciones Complutense]]|location=Madrid|title=Montero Díaz, Julio (dir.), Una televisión con dos cadenas: la programación en España (1956–1990), Cátedra, Madrid, 2018, 874 páginas|first=Aurora|last=García-González|journal=Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico|volume=26|issue=2|doi=10.5209/esmp.68672|page=867|s2cid=219114419|doi-access=free}}</ref>

Further consolidations followed in 1977, at which time RTVE became an {{ill|Organismo autónomo (Spain)|es|Organismo autónomo (España)|lt=''organismo autónomo''}}. In 1979, TVE and RNE were joined by {{ill|Radiocadena Española|es}} (RCE), an old radio service that, unlike RNE, could broadcast commercials. Under the purview of the 1980 {{ill|Statute of the Radio and Television|es|Estatuto de la Radio y la Televisión}}, the public broadcasting services were configured as a legal public entity ({{lang|es|ente público}}) with its own jurisdiction,<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Derogadas/r1-l4-1980.html |title=Ley 4/1980, de 10 de enero, de Estatuto de la Radio y la Televisión |publisher=Radio and Television Statute |date=10 January 1980 |language=es |access-date=13 June 2019 |journal=[[Boletín Oficial del Estado]] |via=Noticias Jurídicas}}</ref> the {{ill|Ente Público Radiotelevisión Española|es}}.<!--According to RTVE's annual report (2003): "This law arose from the [[Spanish Constitution of 1978|Spanish Constitution]] and the political pluralism which the constitution asserts as a fundamental value of the rule of law, and in this spirit granted RTVE the right to function as a democratic organisation."<ref>{{cite book |archive-url=http://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080528025445/http://www.rtve.es/informe/pdf/InformeAnualServicioPublico2003.pdf |work=Ente Público RadioTelevisión Española |year=2004 |title=Informe Anual sobre el Cumplimiento de la Función de Servicio Público del Grupo Radiotelevisión Española en 2003 |location=Madrid |publisher=Dirección Gerencia Internacional y Corporativa de RTVE Subdirección de Estudios Corporativos de RTVE |access-date=15 April 2007 |page=14 |language=es |archive-date=28 May 2008 |url=http://www.rtve.es/informe/pdf/InformeAnualServicioPublico2003.pdf}}</ref>-->
The former cinema [[newsreels]] service [[NO-DO]] was merged into RTVE to be dismantled in 1981. Since then, the NO-DO archives are property of RTVE and its conservation is in their hands and [[Filmoteca Española]]'s. In 1989, RCE was dismantled and its radio service was merged into RNE.

=== RTVE Corporation ===
[[File:El Piruli and neighbourhood.jpg|thumb|TVE's central news services are located at the foot of [[Torrespaña]]. The tower was inaugurated in 1982 and belonged to TVE until 1989.]]
In accordance with the Law of State Radio and Television of 5 June 2006,<ref name="law2006"/> and in the face of an enormous deficit, the RTVE Public Body and the companies TVE, S.A. and RNE, S.A. were dissolved, and on 1 January 2007, Corporación RTVE came into existence.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rtve.es/FRONT_PROGRAMAS?go=111b735a516af85ca6718fb8e6a6ee87ea19e3b85f7078618e9d2df45076986687afe171e492044c7c7d5a73d2a8e4f8d6e2bac1ade178fb92639124495b0047220ff2e14d59bf658f94ef494f0dad19 |title=El mayor grupo audiovisual español |work=RTVE |date=1 January 2007 |language=es |access-date=13 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724160141/http://www.rtve.es/FRONT_PROGRAMAS?go=111b735a516af85ca6718fb8e6a6ee87ea19e3b85f7078618e9d2df45076986687afe171e492044c7c7d5a73d2a8e4f8d6e2bac1ade178fb92639124495b0047220ff2e14d59bf658f94ef494f0dad19 |archive-date=24 July 2014}}</ref> RTVE was thus constituted as a fully autonomous ''sociedad mercantil estatal'', assuming the corporate form of a ''[[S.A. (corporation)|sociedad anónima]]'' fully participated by the State.{{Sfn|Ruiz de Apodaca Espinosa|2009|p=12}} For the first time, the chair of the public broadcasting services was appointed by the [[Cortes Generales]] (the legislative) rather than by the [[Government of Spain]] (the executive), as it had been previously the case with the directors-general of the ''ente público'' and the ''servicio público de radiodifusión''.<ref>{{Cite journal|first=Carmen|last=Chinchilla Marín|url=https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/RAP/article/download/47821/29278/0|title=La reforma de la radio y la televisión públicas de titularidad estatal: la ley 17/2006, de 5 de junio|journal=Revista de Administración Pública|issn=0034-7639|issue=174|year=2007|page=309|location=Madrid|publisher=[[Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales]]}}</ref>

As part of the 2007 restructuring, a controversial plan was implemented to reduce the workforce by 4,855 through attrition and [[voluntary redundancy|retirement incentives]].

In 2012 political tensions associated with the austerity policies enacted by the ruling right-leaning [[People's Party (Spain)|People's Party]] (PP) resulted in departures of personnel, which were interpreted by interviewed journalists as an effort to purge critical political comment from RTVE's content. In 2012 the PP began staffing RTVE with party veterans.<ref name="G8512">{{cite news |title=Spanish government accused of purging critics from national radio and TV: Journalists who have questioned the party's austerity policy have lost jobs at RTVE |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/05/spanish-government-critics-national-tv |access-date=6 August 2012 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=5 August 2012 |first=Stephen |last=Burgen |location=Barcelona |publisher=[[Guardian News & Media Limited]]}}</ref> Considerable controversy was caused when [[Ana Pastor García|Ana Pastor]] was fired.<ref name="G8512" />

On 11 June 2013, RTVE was one of the few known European broadcasters to condemn and criticize the closure of Greece's state broadcaster [[Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation|ERT]].

In December 2018, RTVE launched a web with Filmoteca Española, which is available via Internet with more than 4000 videos of Spanish films and documentaries.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20121220/rtve-filmoteca-espanola-lanzan-internet-mayor-fondo-historico-audiovisual-espana/590503.shtml |title=RTVE y Filmoteca Española lanzan en internet el mayor fondo histórico audiovisual de España |date=20 December 2018 |access-date=3 January 2019 |work=Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española |language=es}}</ref>

Amid the inability to reach a parliamentary agreement for the renovation of the administration board of RTVE, [[Rosa María Mateo]] was appointed as Provisional Sole Administrator in July 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.20minutos.es/noticia/3407287/0/toma-posesion-rosa-maria-mateo-rtve/|website=[[20minutos.es]]|title=Rosa María Mateo toma posesión como administradora única temporal de RTVE|date=30 July 2018}}</ref> In February 2021, the renovation was unblocked and [[José Manuel Pérez Tornero]] was shortlisted as the future chairman of the corporation.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/20210225/jose-manuel-perez-tornero-presidente-rtve-perfil-11542915|publisher=[[El Periódico de Catalunya]]|title=José Manuel Pérez Tornero, el creador de la televisión educativa en España|date=25 February 2021|first=Belén|last=Escudero}}</ref> Thus, the new board was constituted on 26 March 2021.<ref name="elcomercio">{{Cite web|url=https://www.elcomercio.es/culturas/tv/tornero-entra-fuerte-rtve-20210326194544-ntrc.html|website=[[El Comercio (Spain)|El Comercio]]|title=Tornero entra fuerte en RTVE|date=26 March 2021}}</ref>

In October 2021, the corporation's decision to deny a travel of a group of RTVE journalists to Tindouf to attend an event organised by the [[Polisario Front]] and thus be presumably able to interview [[Brahim Ghali]] stirred controversy and led to the renunciation of both TVE and RNE heads of the international informative services.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.es/play/television/noticias/abci-dimiten-jefes-internacional-rtve-tras-negativa-corporacion-viajar-tinduf-202110111108_noticia.html|website=abcplay|title=Dimiten los jefes de Internacional de RTVE tras la negativa de la Corporación a viajar a Tinduf|date=12 October 2021|first=D.|last=Rus|publisher=[[ABC (Spain)|ABC]]}}</ref>

=== Corporate identity ===
<gallery>
File:Logo RTVE (1977-1991).svg|From 1977 to 1991
File:Logo RTVE (1991-2008).svg|From 1991 to 2008
File:Logo RTVE.svg|Since 2008
</gallery><ref>{{cite web |last1=RTVE |title=Imagen Corporativa |url=https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20140611/sobre-nosotros-imagen-corporativa-historia/952622.shtml |website=RTVE.es |date=11 June 2014 |access-date=19 June 2025}}</ref>

== Services ==
===Television ===
{{Main|Televisión Española}}
[[File:TVE.svg|right|150px|TVE]]
RTVE's television service comes under its Televisión Española (TVE) division. Although almost all the programming of its channels is in Spanish and is the same for all of Spain, TVE has territorial centers in every [[autonomous community]] and produces and broadcasts some local programming in [[regional variation]]s in each of them in the corresponding [[Languages of Spain|co-official language]] such as the broadcast of [[Catalan language|Catalan-language]] segments for [[Catalonia]] produced in its {{ill|RTVE Cataluña|es|RTVE Cataluña|lt=production center}} in [[Sant Cugat del Vallès]].

The domestic offer provided by TVE through the [[digital terrestrial television]] comprises two generalist channels ([[La 1 (Spanish TV channel)|La 1]] and [[La 2 (Spanish TV channel)|La 2]]) and three thematic channels: [[Teledeporte]] (sports programming), [[24 Horas (Spanish TV channel)|24 Horas]] (news), and [[Clan (TV channel)|Clan]] (children's programming). All available only in [[High-definition television|high-definition]] in [[1080i]], except for La 1 that is also available in [[Ultra-high-definition television|ultra-high-definition]] in [[4K resolution]].

Regarding [[international broadcasting]], TVE provides [[TVE Internacional]], [[24 Horas (Spanish TV channel)|24h Internacional]], [[Teledeporte|TDP Internacional]], {{ill|Star HD|es}},<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elespanol.com/bluper/television/20150904/tve-dispuesta-colonizar-america-nuevo-star-hd/61493864_0.html|website=Bluper|publisher=[[El Español]]|title=TVE, dispuesta a colonizar América con el nuevo canal Star HD|first=Daniel|last=Jabonero|date=4 September 2015}}</ref> and [[Clan (TV channel)|Clan Internacional]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.europapress.es/sociedad/noticia-rtve-lanza-nuevo-canal-infantil-clan-internacional-llevar-valores-dibujos-espanoles-america-20170704133647.html|website=[[Europa Press (news agency)|Europa Press]]|title=RTVE lanza su nuevo canal infantil Clan Internacional para llevar los "valores" de los dibujos españoles a América|date=4 July 2017}}</ref>

===Radio ===
{{Main|Radio Nacional de España}}
[[File:Logo RNE.svg|150px|right]]
RTVE's radio stations come under its Radio Nacional de España (RNE) division. RNE has also territorial centers in every autonomous community and produces and broadcasts some local programming in regional variations in each of them.

The domestic offer provided by RNE includes the following radio stations: [[Radio Nacional (Spanish radio station)|Radio Nacional]] (generalist radio station), [[Radio Clásica]] (classical music), [[Radio 3 (Spanish radio station)|Radio 3]] (cultural and alternative programming aimed at young people), [[Ràdio 4]] (Catalan-language station broadcast in Catalonia and Andorra), and [[Radio 5 (Spanish radio station)|Radio 5]] (24-hour radio news station).

[[Radio Exterior]] (REE) is the RNE's international broadcasting service on short wave, with an audience of eighty million listeners (surpassed only by the [[BBC World Service|BBC]] and [[Vatican Radio]]).{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} This station is also transmitted via DAB for Spain and by satellite. Besides Spanish, REE also transmits programming in [[French language|French]], [[Arabic]], [[Judaeo-Spanish|Ladino]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[English language|English]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/uploads/6e6b820e-69ea-463f-b306-e01f86a29540/mapping-digital-media-spain-esp-20131023.pdf|publisher=[[Open Society Foundations]]|page=36|title=Los Medios Digitales: España. Un informe de Open Society Foundations|first1=Carles|last1=Llorense|first2=Virginia|last2=Luzón|first3=Helena P.|last3=Grau|editor-first=Marius|editor-last=Dragomir|editor2-first=Mark|editor2-last=Thompson|year=2012|language=es}}</ref>

===Internet===
[[File:Logo RTVE.es.svg|150px|right]]
[[File:RTVE Play logo.svg|150px|right]]
RTVE's online portal is located at 'rtve.es'. The website is managed by RTVE's Interactive Media department ({{ill|Interactivos RTVE|es}}). It hosts the corporation's [[over-the-top media service]], [[RTVE Play]], which replaced the old 'RTVE a la carta' in June 2021, adding additional features.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elespanol.com/bluper/20210623/rtve-lanza-pruebas-play-plataforma-nuevas-funcionalidades/591191165_0.html|website=Bluper|publisher=[[El Español]]|title=RTVE lanza en pruebas RTVE Play, su nueva plataforma con nuevas funcionalidades|date=23 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vertele.eldiario.es/noticias/rtve-lanza-pruebas-rtve-play-nueva-plataforma-sustituye-mejorara-a-la-carta_1_8065254.html|website=Vertele!|publisher=[[eldiario.es]]|title=RTVE lanza en pruebas 'RTVE Play', su nueva plataforma que sustituye y mejorará la 'A la carta'|date=22 June 2021}}</ref> RTVE streams content in the Americas on the 'RTVE Play+' pay subscription service.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://elcomercio.pe/saltar-intro/streaming/rtve-play-plus-como-es-la-nueva-plataforma-de-streaming-espanola-que-quiere-abrirse-paso-en-america-espana-noticia/|website=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]|title=RTVE Play Plus, ¿cómo es la nueva plataforma de streaming española que quiere abrirse paso en América?|date=7 October 2021|first=Gabriela|last=Delgado}}</ref>

Besides the catalogue from the RTVE Archive,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.panoramaaudiovisual.com/2021/06/23/rtve-revolucion-servicio-carta-app-rtve-play/|website=Panorama Audiovisual|date=23 June 2021|title=RTVE comienza la revolución de su servicio A La Carta con la app RTVE Play}}</ref> it allows users to listen and watch live feeds of the network's radio and television stations, as well as original programming from [[Playz]], a hub of streaming content aimed towards a young audience. The RTVE.es portal also features blogs and news stories.

=== Other ===
RTVE is also responsible for the {{ill|RTVE Instituto|es}} and the [[RTVE Symphony Orchestra|RTVE Symphony Orchestra and Choir]]. RTVE (as RNE) was admitted to full active membership of the [[European Broadcasting Union]] in 1955. TVE joined the Eurovision Network in 1960. The corporation has contributed to the production of more than 300 films, many of which have received awards at international [[film festivals]] around the world. From 1979 to 1987, a second radio network known as Radiocadena Española was also a part of RTVE.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://elpais.com/diario/1978/12/05/sociedad/281660410_850215.html |title=Radiocadena Española y No-Do se integran en RTVE |newspaper=[[Elpais.com]] |date=5 December 1978 |access-date=16 August 2013 |language=es |publisher=[[Prisa]]}}</ref> RCE stations, unlike RNE, showed advertising. RCE was merged into RNE between 1987 and 1989.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://elpais.com/diario/1988/07/21/radiotv/585439204_850215.html |title=Aprobada la fusión de Radio Nacional de España y Radiocadena Española |newspaper=[[Elpais.com]] |date=21 July 1988 |access-date=16 August 2013 |first=José Miguel |last=Contreras |location=Madrid |language=es |publisher=[[Prisa]]}}</ref> [[NO-DO]] was also merged into RTVE in 1980. Since NO-DO's closure in 1982, RTVE and Filmoteca Española are responsible for maintaining NO-DO's archives.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Derogadas/r1-l4-1980.html#da5 |title=Ley 4/1980, de 10 de enero, de Estatuto de la Radio y la Televisión |via=Noticias Jurídicas |date=12 January 1980 |access-date=16 August 2013 |language=es |journal=[[Boletín Oficial del Estado]]}}</ref>

== Management ==
{{Main|Chair of RTVE}}
Pursuant to the 2006 Law of State Radio and Television,<ref name="law2006">{{cite journal |url=http://www.rtve.es/archivos/70-2041-FICHERO/Ley.pdf |language=es |title=Ley 17/2006, de 5 de junio, de la radio y la televisión de titularidad estatal |journal=[[Boletín Oficial del Estado]] |issue=134 |date=6 June 2006 |access-date=13 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151212021109/http://www.rtve.es/archivos/70-2041-FICHERO/Ley.pdf |archive-date=12 December 2015 |via=RTVE |pages=20 |first=Juan Carlos |last=R. |author-link=Juan Carlos R. |editor-first=José Luis |editor-last=Rodríguez Zapatero |editor-link=José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero}}</ref> management of the national public service is entrusted to ''{{lang|es|Corporación RTVE}}''.{{sfn|Perez|2009|p=67}} The Board (''{{lang|es|Consejo de Administración}}'') of the RTVE is the main body of RTVE, and appoints the executive officers of RTVE and its companies, approves its organisation, and approves most major activities.{{sfn|Perez|2009|p=66}}<ref name="statement">{{cite web |url=http://www.rtve.es/?go=111b735a516af85c803e604f4546adce4c9885a8e53805c69ad49e29577ac993aa2a0658da481224a699055535e6bf81594846cba88d55646e1e748d003b98d73052eccb9992d97257c8820a3868ef10 |title=Statement on RTVE website about the creation of ''Corporación TVE'' |language=es |access-date=13 June 2019 |work=Corporación RTVE |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909/http://www.rtve.es/?go=111b735a516af85c803e604f4546adce4c9885a8e53805c69ad49e29577ac993aa2a0658da481224a699055535e6bf81594846cba88d55646e1e748d003b98d73052eccb9992d97257c8820a3868ef10 |archive-date=9 September 2012}}</ref> The Board is composed of twelve members; eight members are chosen by [[Congress of Deputies (Spain)|Congress]] and four by the [[Senate of Spain|Senate]], each by two-thirds majority and each for a non-renewable mandate of six years, and two members appointed by Congress must be proposed by the two main trade unions at RTVE.{{sfn|Perez|2009|p=66}}

The [[Chair of RTVE|chair]] has operational control of day-to-day operations, in order to execute the decisions and guidance of the Board.<ref name="statement"/>{{sfn|Perez|2009|p=67}} The chair is appointed by, and may be dismissed by, Congress.{{sfn|Perez|2009|p=67}} Before the 2006 Act, this position was filled by the role of the Director General, which had a ''de facto'' total control of RTVE.{{sfn|Perez|2009|pp=67–68}} In practice, the Director General had been chosen by the Government for their political profile.{{sfn|Perez|2009|p=68}}

Corporación RTVE is described as a "state mercantile society" (''sociedad mercantil estatal'') with special autonomy and independence from the government and the general state administration, and it performs its functions through Televisión Española (TVE) and Radio Nacional de España (RNE).

Most staff are civil servants.{{sfn|Perez|2009|p=67}} The News Council is an internal supervisory body composed of RTVE journalists with the aim of safeguarding RTVE's independence.{{sfn|Perez|2009|p=67}}

The current RTVE board, constituted on 2 December 2024, is chaired by [[José Pablo López]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rtve.es/rtve/20241202/jose-pablo-lopez-toma-posesion-congreso-junto-a-nuevos-consejeros-consejeras-rtve/16356099.shtml|website=RTVE|date=2 December 2024|title=José Pablo López toma posesión en el Congreso junto a los nuevos consejeros y consejeras de RTVE|language=es}}</ref>

== Funding ==
Since the entry into force of the ''Ley de Financiación de RTVE'' in 2009, RTVE is primarily funded by a combination of subsidies from the [[General State Budget]] and a fee levied on the private agents' [[gross revenue]] (3.0% for private free-to-air channels, a 1.5% for private subscription channels and a 0.9% for telecom companies).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cope.es/actualidad/espana/noticias/gobierno-sanchez-asalto-netflix-amazon-hbo-para-salvar-rtve-20210703_1379851|publisher=[[Cadena COPE]]|title=Subvenciones, cadenas privadas o Netflix: Así se financia realmente RTVE, euro a euro|date=3 July 2021}}</ref>

As of 2021, a preliminary draft for the ''Ley General de Comunicación Audiovisual'' reportedly foresees the extension of the 1.5% fee on gross revenues to international streaming platforms offering services in Spain (such as [[Netflix]], [[HBO]], [[Disney+]], [[Amazon Prime Video]] or [[YouTube]]) and the drop of the 0.9% fee for telecom companies. However, the latter will continue contributing in terms of the fee levied for the occupation of the spectrum.<ref name=5d>{{Cite web|url=https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2021/06/29/companias/1624976472_248340.html|website=[[Cinco Días]]|title=El Gobierno obligará a Netflix, HBO y Amazon a contribuir a la financiación de RTVE con el 1,5% de sus ingresos|date=29 June 2021}}</ref> RTVE will also be able to monetize limited forms of advertising, such as [[sponsorship]]s and advertising in its international channels.<ref name=5d />
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* Aurora Mínguez – ([[Berlin]]).
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* Paco Forjas – ([[Paris]]).
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== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book | title= Iris Special: The Public Service Broadcasting Culture | first= Alberto | last= Pérez Gómez | editor1-first= Susanne | editor1-last= Nikoltchev | year= 2007 | publisher= [[European Audiovisual Observatory]] | location= Strasbourg | isbn= 978-92-871-6188-8 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XahsOXBpyQ4C&pg=PA66 | ref= {{harvid|Perez|2009}}}}
* {{Cite journal|title=El régimen jurídico de la nueva corporación de RTVE|first=Ángel María|last=Ruiz de Apodaca Espinosa|journal=Revista Digital Facultad de Derecho|issn=1989-6085|issue=1|year=2009|url=http://e-spacio.uned.es/fez/eserv/bibliuned:revistaDFD-2009-1-5060/Documento.pdf}}

==External links==
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* {{Official website|http://www.rtve.es/}} {{in lang|es}}
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* {{facebook|rtve}}

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