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The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, revealed one of the ANTV's main priorities is to increase the number of TV networks in the country.
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Created only a week ago, the National TV Authority in Colombia (ANTV) already announced its first goal: to increase the number of TV channels.
A tender for a third network had been one of CNTV's goals for a long time, but never became a reality.
The announcement was made yesterday by the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, who stated the organization already has a plan to meet this goal.
"The schedule includes technical investigations, legal and financial studies to define the best way to meet this goal. Colombia deserves and wants a more assorted content offer and that's the organization's main goal, which we hope it can accomplish as soon as possible," Santos said.
The president announced his intentions to "promote" the Colombian audiovisual industry, thus devoting more resources to this area.
"We want to promote audiovisual production in the country, and that's why the ANTV will have resources -determined by the new law- to support national producers. We also want higher-quality free TV with more content that's appealing to our viewers. The law therefore also establishes a minimum of 60% of the fund's resources will be invested in TV development," he said.
Santos seemed confident the ANTV will not fail, since it doesn't have the CNTV's "vices".
"This new TV entity eliminates the former committee's vices, promoting the addition of the right members, supported by good judgment from the universities to choose said members," he said.
Last but not least, he highlighted digital TV's breakthroughs and how its technical schemes are being used in the country, while also defending the DVB-TV norm.
"Two weeks ago, we produced the final document to allow networks to develop a larger offer, meaning they are allowed to have more channels using the same spectrum. Colombia will have a high quality image such as the one in the UK, Italy and Spain," he concluded.
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"Queremos promover la producción audiovisual en el país y por eso la ANTV, como la hemos bautizado, contará con recursos fijos contemplados explícitamente en la Ley para apoyar a los productores nacionales. También queremos una televisión pública de calidad con más contenidos que sean atractivos para los televidentes. Por eso quedó establecido también por ley que vamos a invertir para este fin como mínimo el 60 por ciento de los recursos del fondo para el desarrollo de la televisión”, explicó el mandatario.
Santos se mostró confiado además de que la ANTV no fallará, ya que elimina los "vicios" de la CNTV.
"Esta nueva entidad de televisión elimina los vicios de elección que existían en la antigua Comisión, promoviendo que esta sea integrada por personas idóneas, apoyada en el buen juicio de las universidades para la elección de sus miembros", expresó.
Finalmente, destacó los avances que viene experimentando la televisión digital y como se está sacando el mayor provecho de sus esquemas técnicos en el país, al tiempo que defendió la elección de la norma DVB-TV
"Hace dos semanas llegamos a un documento final que permite a los canales desarrollar una mayor oferta, es decir pueden tener más canales al aire usando el mismo espectro. Colombia podrá contar con una calidad de imagen como la que tienen en este momento el Reino Unido, Italia y España ", terminó.
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