La transparencia en la nueva ordenación del sector audiovisual español. Comentarios a la Ley General de Comunicación Audiovisual y otras normas administrativas recientes
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2011
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Gutierrez David ME, La transparencia en la nueva ordenación del sector audiovisual español: Comentarios a la Ley General de Comunicación Audiovisual y otras normas administrativas recientes, Derecom. 2011(4):1-25.
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Las reformas recientes en el sector audiovisual español, cuyo principal exponente ha sido la Ley 7/2010, General de Comunicación Audiovisual, han supuesto cambios trascendentales en la ordenación tradicional del sector. La reducción del ámbito del servicio público, la liberalización de la radiodifusión terrestre privada, la supresión del sistema concesional y su sustitución por el sistema de licencias y de comunicación previa, la nueva financiación de RTVE, la planificación del ‘dividendo digital’ tras el apagón analógico, la flexibilización de las medidas anticoncentración, la regulación de la TDT de pago o la creación del Consejo Estatal de Medios Audiovisuales (CEMA) como autoridad audiovisual estatal independiente y de control constituyen algunas de las novedades que se analizan a la luz del principio de transparencia y otros estrechamente relacionados, como los de pluralismo, competencia, publicidad o participación ciudadana en los asuntos públicos. Se trata de analizar hasta qué punto la nueva legislación es coherente o no con los mencionados principios.
The General Act 7/2010, on Audiovisual Communication, constitutes the backbone of a set of legal reforms recently carried out in the Spanish Audiovisual sector. All those reforms have entailed transcendental changes in the traditional regulation of the sector, namely, the liberalization of private terrestrial broadcasting and the partial deregulation of the public service of broadcasting; the elimination of the administrative concession technique and its replacement by a system of licences and previous notifications for private operators; the new financing of the Spanish State broadcaster, RTVE; the allocation of frequencies for the ‘digital dividend’ after the analogue switch-off; the progressive relaxation of antitrust measures facilitating mergers in the television sector; the regulation of pay-DTT or the creation of State Council for Audiovisual Media (CEMA), the State independent and monitoring authority for the Spanish audiovisual sector. This paper will be focused on those relevant changes in the light of the principle of transparency and others closely related, such as the ones of pluralism, competition, publicity or citizen’s participation in public issues. Furthermore, it will be also analyzed whether this new regulation is consistent or not with the aforesaid principles.
The General Act 7/2010, on Audiovisual Communication, constitutes the backbone of a set of legal reforms recently carried out in the Spanish Audiovisual sector. All those reforms have entailed transcendental changes in the traditional regulation of the sector, namely, the liberalization of private terrestrial broadcasting and the partial deregulation of the public service of broadcasting; the elimination of the administrative concession technique and its replacement by a system of licences and previous notifications for private operators; the new financing of the Spanish State broadcaster, RTVE; the allocation of frequencies for the ‘digital dividend’ after the analogue switch-off; the progressive relaxation of antitrust measures facilitating mergers in the television sector; the regulation of pay-DTT or the creation of State Council for Audiovisual Media (CEMA), the State independent and monitoring authority for the Spanish audiovisual sector. This paper will be focused on those relevant changes in the light of the principle of transparency and others closely related, such as the ones of pluralism, competition, publicity or citizen’s participation in public issues. Furthermore, it will be also analyzed whether this new regulation is consistent or not with the aforesaid principles.