Tired and disheartened, like the prickly pear when summer arrives, many Radio Nacional workers have demonstrated this week, including its main figures. They are tired, they say, of feeling like Cinderella at RTVE and of the networks operating without direction or project and of external contractors eating their toast. podcasts. They have told it in a letter addressed “to whom it may concern,” perhaps because they no longer know which wall to complain against.
That Spain owes a debate on the function and form of public radio and television is as evident as that all governments avoid it because they are terrified of losing propaganda control over them, but in the specific case of radio there is already a relative consensus. Perhaps because the non-commercial model, focused on public service and the exploitation of formats and content that are almost non-existent in commercial chains, is very consolidated. With or without advertising, TVE has never stopped competing with private companies, as the Broncano soap opera has demonstrated once again. RNE, on the other hand, has a model so distant from the large generalist chains that they do not consider it their competition. Radio collaborators sign an exclusivity clause with our stations, although RNE is usually excluded from these agreements. It is very unlikely that a talk show host has a contract at Ser and Cope at the same time, but there is almost never a problem with having an open address in a private one and a second residence in a public one.
This is because RNE cultivates a way of being compatible with business models. It not only complements them, giving projection to minority or impossible-to-profit music and trends, but also setting a quality standard. The style—sometimes too formal, perhaps rigid and even a little elitist, even in its most popular corners—functions as a platinum meter to measure radio excellence. If RNE did not exist, defending diversity and innovation in private radio stations would be much more difficult.
As its workers warn, RNE cannot operate by inertia. To stay in times of podcasts and media revolution, needs a captain. The strange thing is that it is the crew themselves who, tired of keeping the ship afloat to the best of their knowledge and belief, demand leadership to establish order and set the course. With how well it is to live without anyone bossing you around. I guess that gives the measure of his desperation.
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