Kirchner’s television
Kirchner management always pointed to the media, often to disqualify them, but this time the objective of the Casa Rosada is to build a network of multimedia related to the government.
This new strategy will meet three objectives: to spend $ 1.5 billion until 2011 to launch the new free digital TV, which broadcast from next month, create their own public signaling device to install the official message and distribute free of charge, from end of the month, 1.2 million digital converters among low-income sectors, before the start of World Cup South Africa 2010.
People who access these devices can see four state media and some new private signals close to the government, and also enjoy the games of the World Cup for Channel 7, with high image quality.
The cost for this plan is calculated at $ 550 million: $ 460 per unit, plus the distribution logistics it would take $ 25 million more, according to La Nación newspaper.
Vulnerable beneficiaries will be chosen by the standards of the Anses: retirees, beneficiaries of social programs and universal child allowances.
On channels 22, 23, 24 and 25 go public signals: Channel 7, Encounter, Inca TV (Argentine cinema) and Paka Paka (children).
Also other public television stations are on the way: 24 hours of news (Channel 7), culture, science and technology, production and human rights. Tristan Bauer, director of Radio and Television Argentina (RTA, Channel 7 and Radio Nacional) is in charge of the project.
Meanwhile, private channels such as Channel 9, Channel 13, Telefé and America will receive TV frequencies from 28 to 40 when they requested and want to integrate digital system. Meanwhile, digital and analog will coexist for a while until the August 2019 when analogue will be cancel.
On the other hand, some official sources revealed that it will launch a tender or tender-yet-not defined for new private operators would come from the channel 28 and 40. The names that are envisaged in the Casa Rosada are Moneta groups, Electroingeniería, Szpolszky, Hadad, Vila Manzano or Ricardo Nosiglia (Henry’s brother).
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