What has been changing in the Spanish audiovisual landscape in the last few years?
There have been many changes in the business. The first big change is the restructuring of the national television, TVE. The national broadcaster had an enormous debt that was absorbed by the Government in 2007. Parliament approved a new law in 2007 and we have now a whole new system. We have now a President of the Spanish radio and television and a management team that stays for six years and will not be affected by the changes of the Government. In the previous years we could have a new manager of TVE every two years, making a long term policy very difficult. Is there a policy concerning animation within national television? Not yet. The producers’ associations are working with the new TVE management to create a strategy. We had an agreement with TVE that ran for 4 years which now has expired. The amount of the agreement was €12 million. What are the first measures of the new TVE management? In 2007 TVE acquired 55 Spanish feature films. In 2008 TVE will only buy 37. The policy is to
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