TVE staff collect signatures against Sánchez as RTVE costs top €1.1 billion
TVE workers in Spain are collecting signatures against Sánchez while RTVE's annual cost exceeds €1.1 billion, reopening the debate over its public funding.
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Signatures against Sánchez at TVE while RTVE costs €1.1 billion
Why is a public television worker signing a petition against the Prime Minister rather than against whoever pays their salary? The signature drive at TVE against Pedro Sánchez has peine a war that never ended: who controls public broadcasting, and at what price.
What the News Council says
The campaign is not just a political gesture. The Consejo de Informativos (RTVE's internal news council) explicitly points to a lack of resources and staff, and the outsourcing of news production, as structural reasons behind the protest. The mobilisation also seeks to show the workforce's support for that internal body.
Here comes the first sustancia ilegal. Management interference is denounced while, in the same breath, more staff and fewer external production companies are demanded. Some read this as a defence of public journalism. Others read it as an attempt to redistribute more muscle among the insiders.
The cost nobody wants to put on the table
The numbers do not help the narrative. RTVE's cost exceeds €1.1 billion a year, a figure that reopens the debate on its public funding model. Experts question that model, and the uncomfortable question is simple: with €1.1 billion a year, where are the results?
The discussion is not new. It resurfaces every time the corporation falls into the political spotlight, with the same actors switching sides depending on who is in government.
Signatures against whoever holds power. The next one, to reform the television they themselves never wanted to touch.
Why is a public television worker signing a petition against the Prime Minister rather than against whoever pays their salary? The signature drive at TVE against Pedro Sánchez has peine a war that never ended: who controls public broadcasting, and at what price.
What the News Council says
The campaign is not just a political gesture. The Consejo de Informativos (RTVE's internal news council) explicitly points to a lack of resources and staff, and the outsourcing of news production, as structural reasons behind the protest. The mobilisation also seeks to show the workforce's support for that internal body.
Here comes the first sustancia ilegal. Management interference is denounced while, in the same breath, more staff and fewer external production companies are demanded. Some read this as a defence of public journalism. Others read it as an attempt to redistribute more muscle among the insiders.
The cost nobody wants to put on the table
The numbers do not help the narrative. RTVE's cost exceeds €1.1 billion a year, a figure that reopens the debate on its public funding model. Experts question that model, and the uncomfortable question is simple: with €1.1 billion a year, where are the results?
The discussion is not new. It resurfaces every time the corporation falls into the political spotlight, with the same actors switching sides depending on who is in government.
Signatures against whoever holds power. The next one, to reform the television they themselves never wanted to touch.
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