Spanish Television

Televisión Española (TVE) is the division of RTVE that manages national public television in Spain, owned by RTVE. It began its regular activity on October 28, 1956, with the start of broadcasts of its first chain. Until January 1, 2007, it was one of the corporations that made up the Public Entity Radiotelevisión Española.

TVE is the flagship of the largest audiovisual group in Spain. It is present with its broadcasts on the five continents via satellite and through the main cable operators in Europe, America and Asia.

Since January 1, 2010, TVE is financed through public subsidies and direct taxes on private television and mobile phone operators, leaving the advertising market. Spain is one of the few countries in the European Union where citizens do not pay a fee to partially or fully subsidize public radio and television.

History

The first proof of the idea of what television would be in Spain dates back to November 1938, when the regime of National Socialist Germany presented Francisco Franco with “fonovision”, a technology patented by Telefunken that allowed sounds to be sent remotely and images, and which was attended by various personalities from the Spanish government and the German State. Franco expressed his gratitude and admiration for the test.

The first demonstration of what television itself is dates back to 12:45 pm on June 10, 1948, during a technology exhibition at the international trade fair held at the Palau de Montjuich in Barcelona, where the Philips Ibérica house installs a camera linked by cable to a monitor located thirty meters away. Enriqueta Teixidó and Enrique Fernández were the first Spanish announcers to appear on screen. Subsequently, in August 1948, RCA carried out its broadcast tests with a bullfight from the Círculo de Bellas Artes which, however, were a fiasco due to the poor image and sound quality, for which the attendees demanded the refund of your money.

As of that date, different technical tests and test broadcasts take place, which were attended by artists such as Carmen Sevilla, Ángel de Andrés or Fernando Sancho, until 1956, specifically on October 28 when TVE it begins its regular broadcasts from a chalet on the Paseo de la Habana, Madrid. At that time, TVE depended on the Ministry of Information and Tourism directed at that time by Gabriel Arias-Salgado. These broadcasts began at 8:30 p.m., with an intervention by the minister and the director of TVE, Jesús Suevos Fernández. Arias-Salgado then pronounced the first words of the public channel:

Today, October 28, Sunday, the day of Christ the King, to whom all power has been given in Heaven and on Earth, the new teams and studies of Spanish Television are inaugurated.

The broadcast continued with a blessing of the studios in honor of Santa Clara, patron saint of television, and later there was a musical interlude, several NO-DO documentaries, an exhibition of regional dances by the Choirs and Dances of the Women's Section and to end a piano concert. Although some media claimed that the signal had a range of 60 kilometers, it could only be seen in a few points in Madrid, especially due to the tiny number of televisions sold: 600, which They also cost about 25,000 pesetas each, a prohibitive price for the time.

The legal framework in those early years attributed the management of the entity to the General Directorate of Radio and Television, within the aforementioned Ministry of Information and Tourism. Decree 2460/1960, of December 29, is the first rule that specifically contemplates the new medium. Specifically, it was indicated in its article 1 that «the General Directorate of Radio and Television is responsible for structuring, organizing and taking care of the operation of the public sound and image broadcasting service, in all its aspects through the direction and management own facilities and the regulation, promotion and control of the activities of the rest, as well as the transmitting and receiving technical means, and executing the Orders that the Ministry issues in matters of radio broadcasting for the better development and improvement of existing services or any others that economic progress allows».

Very slowly, commercials began to be broadcast, first live (1957: Winston's panel behind the presenters Ramsy James and Jesús Álvarez in a musical program where the duo Los holandesos voladores performed) and later filmed advertisements arrive (1958: the first recorded advertisement broadcast on TVE was one of an Omega Sea Master watch, in 35 mm., submerged in a sea of cartoons and a little fish, drawn by the Moro brothers, that was wrapped in the clock and with the music of The ghost ship in the background, at the beginning and end of the musical Los viernes, concierto).

Starting in 1959, connections between Madrid with Zaragoza, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia, Seville, Santiago de Compostela, etc. had begun, via hertzian link: television began to be a reference for modernity throughout the territory Spanish. In October of that year, a repeater recently installed in the Bola del Mundo, in the Sierra de Guadarrama, began to operate, which expanded television coverage to a large part of the interior of the peninsula: Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León, as well as to Valencia in February 1960, to Bilbao in December 1960, to Galicia and Seville in October 1961 and finally, to the Canary Islands in February 1964. That same year, the Miramar Studios in Barcelona were inaugurated, competing with the of the Paseo de La Habana in Madrid in the production of programs.

Until the advent of the videotape, around 1963, which allowed the recording and subsequent broadcasting of the programming, all the production was carried out in the narrow studios of the Paseo de la Habana (Madrid) and, except for the filmed spaces, in rigorous straight. In 1964, the largest studios in Prado del Rey, in Madrid, and the TVE Canarias studios in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria were inaugurated.

In 1965, the RTVE Orchestra and Choir was created, at the initiative of the then Minister of Information and Tourism D. Manuel Fraga Iribarne.

Around 1966, TVE still did not maintain a network of its own correspondents abroad and on this date used the services of some correspondents from Radio Nacional de España who were Ángel Roselló in Paris, Pedro Wender in Berlin and José Luis Colina as delegate in Rome. In August of the same year, TVE appointed its first own correspondent: Eduardo Sancho, in London and in 1968, three new correspondents were created: New York with Jesús Hermida, Vienna with Ana Isabel Cano (1968-1972) becoming the first woman who was a correspondent for TVE and Brussels with Federico Volpini. This same year, a restructuring was carried out in the correspondent services on both TVE and RNE. Thus, in London, Eduardo Sancho is replaced by José Antonio Plaza, in Rome, Javier Aracil takes Colina's position and, later, the correspondent is occupied by Francisco Narbona (1969).

On November 15, a second TVE channel (TVE-2) appeared, originally known as la UHF, for using this radio frequency band for its broadcast. On TVE-2, the first network's low-audience cultural, sports and public service content would be broadcast, which in the future should allow TVE to enter the path of competition for the audience.

In 1969, TVE premiered its broadcasts in PAL, which technically already allowed it to broadcast programs in color. However, the lack of infrastructure to produce programs in this medium, mainly the lack of color cameras and VTRs, delayed regular color production until 1973.

TVE's first important production in color (not the first broadcast) was, however, in 1969. The Eurovision Song Contest that year is held from the Teatro Real in Madrid with color equipment provided by the BBC. However, although abroad (Europe, and via satellite for Chile, Puerto Rico and Brazil) it is carried out in full color, due to a lack of modern equipment, the broadcast is within Spanish territory and the copy on a tape recorder is kept in the archive. from RTVE are in black and white.

Between 1969 and 1972, some color productions were made thanks to film cameras, but they were sporadic. In 1972, the first color cameras and video recorders arrived, and from that moment on a mixed program was made with programs in color and in black and white. The definitive suppression of black and white would arrive in 1977, producing from that moment all programming in color.

By 1970, the television signal, with its first chain, was captured in almost the entire Spanish territory, as well as with its second, the metropolitan areas of the main capitals, as well as extensive rural areas supplied by transmitters of UHF. At that time, a television park of close to four million receivers was estimated, equivalent to approximately 40% of homes throughout the country. However, although between 70%-80% of the television stations were in Madrid, Barcelona or the Basque Country, only 25% were in rural areas. For this reason, there were television parks and teleclubs in rural areas. However, its success was very limited and its activity very irregular.

At the end of the Franco regime, a hint of openness can be seen, coinciding with the arrival at the head of the entity of Juan José Rosón, who in the first months of 1974 applied a policy of relaxation of censorship coinciding with what which came to be called "the spirit of February 12" in reference to the apparently moderate speech of the then recently appointed President of the Government, Carlos Arias Navarro. Rosón had the collaboration of Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, whom he appointed director of programs. The new openness approach was reflected especially in entertainment programs such as Mundo Pop or A Su Aire. Singular controversies caused separate performances by the singers Rocío Jurado and Rosa Morena. The first, allowing a glimpse of part of her anatomy in the space Cambie su suerte broadcast on April 2, 1974. While Rosa Morena sang various songs to the rhythm of flamenco pop such as Échale guindas al pavo, wasting sensuality among numerous soldiers in the program A su aire, broadcast on April 4, 1974. This stage lasted only a few months; Ibáñez Serrador resigned in June of the same year and Rosón was dismissed shortly after.

The Spanish Constitution of 1978, in its article 20, protected the right «to freely communicate or receive truthful information by any means of dissemination». The Radio and Television Statute of January 10, 1980 included in the Public Entity Radiotelevisión Española the state companies Radio Nacional de España, Radio Cadena Española and Televisión Española.

On January 13, 1986, the morning broadcasts began with the program Buenos Días (TVE).

On December 14, 1988, with the general strike of 14-D, the RTVE workers cut the broadcast and helped to achieve an unprecedented success in the history of Spanish unions, although they failed to comply with the minimum public service obligation that must by law lend to society.

In 1988, TVE inaugurated the Buñuel Studios in Madrid, formerly the Bronston Film Studios, which house the second largest television set in Europe (at the time the largest), with an area of 2,500 m². These studies serve as support to those of Prado del Rey for the realization of programs.

After the Private Television Law, the television market in Spain was liberalized and the first private channels (Telecinco, Antena 3 and Canal+) were created in 1990. Preparations would soon begin for the landing of satellite television in Spain, and RTVE wanted to be the one to lead its development with its first thematic channels Teledeporte and Canal Clásico, the first one still existing today, which they broadcast for a time in the open (except during the Cotelsat stage, in 1994). In addition, by then, the signal of the channel TVE Internacional (launched in 1989) would have already begun to be broadcast.

With the creation of the digital platform Vía Digital, now integrated into Digital+ together with Canal Satélite Digital, TVE continued to invest in thematic channels and, specifically for «Vía», it added Teledeporte to its offer and Canal Clásico the channels Alucine, Cine Paraíso, Grandes Documentales Hispavisión, Canal Nostalgia and Channel 24 Hours. Only the latter and Teledeporte have lasted until now. They also screened a Canal Toros, which never saw the light of day (it was integrated as a slot on the platform's premium channel, "Gran Vía"), and "Mundo Musical", which was going to be dedicated to modern music complementing Canal Clásico and that was only launched for the Latin American market.

The State Radio and Television Law of June 5, 2006 (Law 17/2006) dissolved the Entity and the companies TVE, S.A., and RNE, S.A. creating the current RTVE Corporation. From then on, instead of being appointed by the Government, the president-general director had to be elected in Parliament by 2/3 of the deputies except in the second election where a simple majority will suffice. At the same time, a controversial RTVE restructuring or reorganization plan is underway that aims to reduce the workforce by 4,855 workers through early retirement and incentivized leave, despite the fact that it is the European public broadcaster with the least staff. The 2006 Law was modified on April 20, 2012, when the Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree Law, reducing the number of members of the Board of Directors and modifying the method of appointment of the president-general director, in view of the fact that, since June 2011, the presidency of the Corporation was interim. With which, with this small change, it can be said that it returns to a model similar to the one prior to the 2006 Law.

The economic situation of the chain gave rise in 2006 to an employment regulation file that led to the early retirement of nearly 4,150 professionals who met the requirements of having turned 52 and having served for at least six years. This meant the departure of some of the most emblematic faces of television in Spain such as Marisa Abad, Luis de Benito, Rosa María Calaf, Pedro Erquicia, Baltasar Magro, José Antonio Maldonado, Paco Montesdeoca, Beatriz Pécker, José Ángel de la Casa, Agustín Remesal or Isabel Tenaille, With the arrival of DTT, Televisión Española has become the main driver of the development of digital television in Spain. In this first stage of implementation, it has La 1, La 2, 24h, Teledeporte, Clan , Canal Parlamento and TVE HD. Without subscriptions and via satellite you can also watch the generalist TVE Internacional, also present in thousands of offers from cable companies around the world, and 24h, only at via the Hot Bird 8 satellite at the 13ºE orbital position.

TVE launched its high definition channel, TVE HD, on August 8, 2008, coinciding with the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008. The channel was available during the Games on Digital+, although since 2010 it is available throughout the country through DTT.

As of September 2009, TVE recovers the rights to broadcast the UEFA Champions League together with FORTA for open matches. By that same agreement, Mediapro removes from Digital+ the rights of the paid matches of said competition. Rights that it loses in June 2015, in favor of Atresmedia and BeIN Sports, it would also lose others, such as the Euroleague, Roland Garros, the Olympic Games (from 2020), Liga ACB, Liga Santander (in 2016).

At that time, it broadcast La Vuelta, the Tour de France, the Davis Cup, some men's tennis tournaments or all the matches of the Spanish soccer team.

Image of the logo that accompanied all the news, series, cinema and cartoons that were broadcast without advertising cuts during the first months without advertising on TVE.

With the arrival of 2010, on January 1, advertising on all its channels disappeared (as did other public channels such as the BBC or France 2). TVE cannot broadcast advertising and can only broadcast self-promotions, institutional communication, electoral campaigns, informative campaigns of a social nature and advertisements that are an indivisible part of certain programs, for example sponsors of sporting events, among others, and in any case cannot charge for it.. The measure to conclude the advertising stage was opposed by the Spanish Association of Advertisers, led by Juan Ramón Plana, who opted for a fee for public television or the return of advertising. In addition, the possibility of that TVE can have pay DTT channels like private operators.

On April 3, 2010, the analog blackout was completed, with which the broadcasts of La 1 and La 2 by this means ceased definitively, and from this date all its channels are broadcast through DTT. The first of both was expected to start broadcasting when the government assigned new frequencies to operators, and the second would cease broadcasting at that time.

On December 19, 2013, without prior notice, Teledeporte HD began broadcasting through RGE2. Since December 31, at 11:55, it is simulcasting with the SD version, broadcasting the same thing but in HD.

On December 31, 2013, La 1 HD began broadcasting, which broadcasts the same content as its conventional signal, but in 720p image quality. This channel replaces TVE HD, which gave up its space to become the high definition signal of the generalist channel.

On January 18, 2016, Star HD began broadcasting, a high-definition channel aimed at the American public, its programming is based on fiction and entertainment series.

Logos

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La 1 and La 2 logos

The Televisión Española logo was established in the 1960s, and remained unchanged until 1991, when it was modernized by changing the angles of the endings of the letters "T" and "E" and increasing the thickness of the design. In 1992, that logo was introduced in a blue square that in turn has a red rectangle on the left and a green one on the right, rectangles that were partially eliminated in 1998.

The logos of La 1 and La 2 changed in the spring of 1999. For La 1 a blue square was set with a one in the center, and a green one with a two larger than the logo of La 1 for the 2.

On September 30, 2007, the logos of La 1 and La 2 adopted the white color, losing the green in La 2 to adopt several shades, among which stand out a purple color that was used at Christmas and a turquoise one that used in summer 2008.

Just in the summer of 2008, specifically on August 31, RTVE changes its logos. TVE adopts a blue color, a little different from the one used by La 1. La 2 uses an aquamarine blue color, lighter than that of TVE.

Clan TVE, Clásico TVE and Teledeporte logos

The Clan logo was a square divided in two; At the top there was a sun and the word "Clan" and at the bottom the TVE logo. The Clásico logo was a treble clef. The Teledeporte logo is a white frame with a blue and a gray section on the left and the text TDP in the center.

Logos of 24 hours, TVE Internacional and Docu TVE

The 24-hour logo consisted of a square in which “24H” appeared in the upper half and the TVE logo in the lower half. The TVE Internacional logo consisted of the TVE logo with the background of the globe.

The Docu logo consisted of the word DOCU in the upper left corner, a large circle that encompasses almost the entire square, and the TVE logo in the lower right corner.

General change of corporate image in 2008

On August 31, 2008, a new unified logo for all corporations came into effect, more stylized than the previous one. In lower case, rounded flat font and highlighting the letter "e", it uses different colors depending on the channel: RTVE in orange, La 1 in blue, La 2 in aquamarine, 24 hours in orange red, Docu (defunct channel) in green, Teledeporte in orange yellow, Clan in pink, Clásico (channel disappeared) in purple, Cultural·es (channel disappeared) in fuchsia, TVE HD in Prussian blue and RNE in dark vermilion red. The new logo was released during that day's Newscast 2.

TV channels

Televisión Española brings together, for domestic broadcasting (within Spanish territory), two general channels: La 1 and La 2, and three thematic channels: 24h, Teledeporte and Clan. In addition, they all have high definition versions, broadcast free on DTT, and also on subscription television.

The national services are the following:

• 1: current-oriented generalist chain and entertainment, which contains mainly series, cinema (especially national and American), magacines and reports, informatives and some of the most popular sports competitions, whose broadcasting rights have TVE. It is the first television service created in Spain on October 28, 1956.
• 2: generalist chain, more cultural and attention to the citizen, which broadcasts a program composed of spaces of dissemination and citizenship, documentaries, Spanish and European cinema, reports and debates, alternative information, cultural and musical, and formerly spaces of teletheatro. It offers alternative programming to the rest of the main national chains, with a less commercial character. It is the second oldest television service in Spain, launched on November 15, 1966.
• 24h: Thematic news channel, launched on September 15, 1997, broadcasts information every half hour, spaces for discussion and analysis, interviews, current magazines and reports issued on other TVE channels. It is the first news channel in Spain. Since February 23 it has an HD version.
• Clan: Thematic channel created on 10 December 2005, intended primarily for children. Its programming is almost completely fictional (animate or not).
• Telesport: Thematic channel created on 12 February 1994 that emits sport competitions that cannot be issued live by La 1 or La 2 or that are very minority and of limited audience. It also produces information programs of current sports.

Likewise, specifically for its foreign broadcast, Televisión Española also produces the following services:

• TVE International: international generalist channel, broadcast in open and created in 1989. It transmits its own direct or deferred production programmes with respect to La 1, La 2 and 24h. It is available in different signals depending on the geographical reception area.

• 24h International: external signal of the thematic news channel, launched on September 15, 1997.

• Star HD: international channel directed to America, exclusive of paid operators, that emits spaces of entertainment, such as fiction series, of own production of Spanish Television.

• International Class: international version of the theme channel created in 2017.

All of the above are joined by TVE 4K, an experimental channel in ultra high definition (UHD), in 4K resolution, which is currently broadcast via Hispasat satellite. It can also be seen through the TVE Red Button on compatible televisions.

Channels missing

Spanish television had other thematic channels that later disappeared. The first outline of thematic channels in Spain can be found on August 10, 1972, when Telefónica and TVE, under the direction of Adolfo Suárez, signed an agreement for the creation of the Cablevisión platform (also called Tele Cable or Cable TVE), which would contain a third channel, Cadena Documento, as well as a fourth channel, Cadena Show, both operated by TVE. During the summer of 1973, a programming schedule was even published for both channels in which it was anticipated that Cadena Documento would have the broadcast of French and English language courses, documentaries, news and with a slot a two-hour morning broadcast of the Stock Market, and Cadena Espectáculo would broadcast musical, film and sports shows. Finally, the third and fourth TVE channels did not materialize and, despite a new attempt to create the channels in 1976, they remained an unfinished project.

The first thematic channels that broadcast were within the TVE Thematic platform and were created to complement the offer of the Vía Digital payment platform on the Hispasat satellite. Of all these channels, inaugurated on September 15, 1997 (Teledeporte, Hispavisión and Canal Clásico already existed), only 24 hours and Teledeporte last. Other thematic channels would be born later, either due to the reconversion of previous channels, or within the launch of DTT in 2005. Since the TVE financing law, approved in 2009, the public channel has been prohibited from broadcasting pay channels. The last two channels of this style, Cultural·es and Clásico, ceased their broadcasts in September 2010 after their free-to-air launch on DTT was cancelled.

• Canal AluCine: based on the program of La 1, Alucine, its programming consisted of cinema and series of terror, science-fiction and fantasy. The channel disappeared in September 2000 by low audience.
• Paraiso Cinema: based its programming on the broadcast of classic cinema, family cut films and historical series. He disappeared in 2000 just like the Alucine Channel.
• Canal Toros: Thematic channel focused on the tauromaquia that was designed for the Via Digital platform. Although it did not launch as an independent signal, it produced and placed the mark on the taurine relays of the premium channel Gran Via. It ceased to exist in 2002.

• Canal Nostalgia: its grill was based on the TVE archives, reminiscing old programs and series of own production and other informative, sporting or musical events such as the OTI or Eurovision festivals among others. In mid-2005 it was announced that it disappeared from payment platforms, although it officially continued in the production of contents until its replacement by TVE 50 Years.

• TVE 50 Years: in November 2005, the day after the official disappearance of Canal Nostalgia, the TVE channel 50 Years was born in TDT. It differed from Nostalgia in which his schedule was reduced, as he shared grill with the children's channel Clan, and in his thematic character according to the day of the week. Disappearing on 1 January 2007.

• Docu: cultural outreach channel that was born as Great Hispavision Documentaries in October 1994 and the main content of the documentary genre. It disappeared in 2009 after giving way to the new Cultural·es channel, produced by the TVE itself and the Ministry of Culture.

• Classic: classical music channel, opera, jazz and zarzuela that broadcast on cable and satellite platforms. Its merger with Cultural·es was planned when it was broadcast on TDT, but when the launch of that channel was cancelled, such a merger was also cancelled. The channel was available through Digital+ and cable operators until 1 September 2010 it stopped emissions.

• Cultural·es: cultural theme channel created in 2009 from the fusion of Classic and Docu. It was broadcast on cable and satellite television, and it was expected to be incorporated into the Digital Terrestrial Television following the analog blackout. But the channel did not launch in open and finally, in 2010, its programs were integrated into the La 2. Cultural·es was available via Canal+, Movistar TV and other cable operators. On 1 September 2010, it disappeared from D+ and on 1 January 2011, it ceased to occur definitively.

• TVE HD: predecessor of the current TVE 4K, was a high-definition TVE channel. It began by broadcasting satellites within the Digital+ offer in 2008, coinciding with the Olympic Games, then joining the Digital Terrestrial Television in open. It emitted series, films, programs and sport competitions in HD format already emitted previously in La 1, La 2 and Teledeporte (and sometimes simulcast with these). Since 2009 he re-emitted the Eurovision Song Festival, and since 2011, live. It started emitting in 1080i to then adopt the resolution of 720p to 50 frames per second, following the recommendations of the UER. The audio was Dolby Digital Plus. He stopped broadcasting on December 31, 2013, being replaced by La 1 HD.

Affiliate stations

• Autonomic RTVE: 17 channels (one by autonomy) + Ceuta and Melilla. 1 or 2 followed by the official name of autonomy according to the case. It is the channel dedicated in each autonomy to broadcast to a few hours own programming for such autonomy in its regional language if it has (regional information, in Catalonia, the Canary Islands and autonomous communities that do not have public or private autonomic television official their disconnections are wider, in the rest that they do have are smaller...) and the rest of the day connects with the programming of La 1 or La 2 according to the autonomy (for example in Catalonia).

In addition to its studios in Madrid, RTVE also has two production centers.

• RTVE Catalonia: aimed at the production of regional programs in Catalan, and other programs at the national level, such as Know and win, The Lunnis, For all 2or The green beetleas well as some channels of the corporation: (Teledeporte and La 2). The center was founded in 1959 at the old hotel Miramar de Montjuic, in Barcelona, and in 1983 they moved their studies to their current headquarters in San Cugat del Vallés. Issue its territorial information L'informatiu in La 1 and The vespre in La 2, which are also repeated in the sign for Catalonia of Canal 24 Hours.
• RTVE Canarias: dedicated to the production of programs of the region and adaptation of programming due to the time difference of the Canary Islands. Founded in 1964 under the name of Tele Canarias, it has its headquarters in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and until 1971 it had complete autonomy relative to programming until it could link to La 1, through the Intelsat satellite network. Issue your territorial information every day at three o'clock.

In the rest of the communities, RTVE has a Territorial Center in charge of carrying out the territorial news. Said news program is broadcast from Monday to Friday on La 1 from 2:00 p.m. to 2:20 p.m. and is repeated from 4:00 p.m. to 4:20 p.m.

Their names, language and years of creation are:

• RTVE Galicia: Telexornal (in Galician) (1974)
• RTVE Andalusia: Andalusian News (1974) (formerly) Tele Sur)
• RTVE Basque Country: Telenorte (in Spanish, and Gaurkoak en euskera, al final de informació) (1974)
• RTVE Valencian Community: L'informatiu-Comunitat Valenciana (in Valencian and Spanish) (1974) (formerly Aitana)
• RTVE Asturias: Regional Panorama (in Spanish) (1974) (formerly Tele Asturias and Here Asturias).
• RTVE Aragón: Aragon News (1979) (formerly) Meridiano)
• RTVE Baleares: Informatiu Balear (in Catalan) (1979)
• RTVE Murcia: Noticias Murcia (1980) (formerly) Tele Murciaand 1980-1982 broadcasting TVE-Aitana)
• RTVE Navarra: Telenavarra (in Spanish, and Arin Arin in Basque) (1981)
• RTVE Castilla y León: Noticias de Castilla y León (in Spanish) (1982) (formerly Regional information)
• RTVE Catalonia: L'Informatiu (in Catalan) (1983)
• RTVE Cantabria: Telecantabria (1984)
• RTVE La Rioja: Telerioja (in Spanish) (1986)
• RTVE Castilla-La Mancha: News of Castilla-La Mancha (1989)
• RTVE Extremadura: Extremadura News (1989)
• RTVE Ceuta: Ceuta News (1987)
• RTVE Melilla: Melilla News (1987)

Televisión Española does not have a territorial center in the Community of Madrid, due to the fact that RTVE's headquarters are already in Madrid, although it does broadcast Informativo Madrid, which is the name it receives the newscast broadcast by La 1. The Madrid center began its programming in 1974, when at that time it was the so-called TVE Zona Centro center, which covered the news from Madrid, Cáceres, Aragón, Old Castilla and New Castile.

In Equatorial Guinea, RTVE had a radio center until 1968, called Radio Ecuatorial, and another television station, called TVGE, managed by TVE until 1973. Radio Ecuatorial had two antennas: Radio Equatorial de Santa Isabel (EAJ 205) 'The voice of Fernando Poo', founded in 1947, being renamed Radio Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial after independence, initially broadcasting 6 hours, and sharing two hours of broadcast with the private Radio Papaya; and Radio Ecuatorial de Bata (EAJ 206) 'La voz de Río Muni', which had been broadcasting since December 1953, initially for 3 hours a day, in Spanish, fang, bubi, Portuguese and French.

In Western Sahara, RNE had two radio centers from July 18, 1961 to February 28, 1976, called RNE Radio Sáhara Villa Cisneros (EAJ-202), in the 998 kHz frequency for Villa Cisneros, and RNE Radio Sáhara El Aaiún (EAJ-203), on the 645 and 656 kHz frequencies for El Aaiún, with programming in Spanish and Hassani Arabic.

In Sidi Ifni, RNE had a radio center from 1961 to 1968, called RNE Radio Sidi Ifni, on the frequency 1475 kHz.

In the organizational structure of RTVE, TVE and RNE in the different autonomous communities, they are integrated into the same facilities. They are informative units. RTVE Ceuta and RTVE Melilla broadcast a joint 20-minute newscast on Fridays with the most important events that have occurred in both autonomous cities during the week. This news program was presented, edited and broadcast from Torrespaña in Madrid, between 2001 and 2014, although each piece of news was prepared by a TVE team in each autonomous city. Since February 3, 2014, and after the process of professional integration of RTVE journalists in their information units, the news spaces are prepared, edited and presented from Ceuta and Melilla, for its part, Radio Nacional de España has a presence in these cities more than five decades ago. Likewise, from Monday to Thursday there is daily information in the RTVE Andalucía news program.

The production of programming in regional languages begins with the beginning of the production of programming in the Catalan language in the center of Catalonia in 1964. Between 1988 and 1989 TVE Catalunya carried out its first program in Aranese on La 2, It was Lucana d'Aran, following the model of FR3, which produced and broadcast programming in Occitan since October 1977, also broadcast on France 2 until 1989, and on TF1 until 1985. After the restructuring plan, these centers lost a large number of staff, and therefore broadcast programs. The production center most affected was that of the Canary Islands, which began to work only on the news, although it currently has more programming, while the rest of the territorial centers went from broadcasting two news programs to one.

It should be noted that TVE was the first channel to dub and broadcast Gone with the Wind in the different co-official languages. Through the regional channels of TVE 2, the film was broadcast in Galician on July 25, 1986, in Catalan on September 11, 1986, and in Basque on October 26, 1986.

La 2 broadcast programming in territorial disconnection between 1988 and 2007, except in Catalonia, where from the beginning of the regular broadcasts of the Segunda Cadena de TVE, in 1966, the disconnections began in Catalan; and the Canary Islands, where offline programs began to be broadcast in 1982 and are still being broadcast. However, during the 1980s some films were broadcast in co-official languages. In addition, rebroadcasts of Panorama de Galicia and other programs have been broadcast on TVE 2 in Galicia since 1976, and the center of Tele Murcia, broadcast on the Valencian signal of TVE 2 between 1980 and 1982 at the same time as the Valencian news program Aitana on TVE 1.

All this is due to the fact that each Autonomous Community has two regional TV channels, generally public, which means that TVE relegates regional programming to these channels.

In Madrid, it has the Prado del Rey and Torrespaña studios, the center from where the news services are broadcast. In addition, between 1988 and 2015 it also had the Buñuel studios, currently demolished.

List of program managers and directors

Audiences

Evolution of the monthly screen share, according to audience measurements prepared in Spain by Kantar Media. In green are the years in which he was a leader.