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Spain: ‘Netflix tax’ set at 5%

Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and HBO, among others, will pay a 5 per cent revenue tariff in Spain to finance European TV series and movies. The Spanish Administration is amending its TV laws with a new Ley General de Comunicación Audiovisual that will oblige global streamers to finance European productions at the same level as […]

November 9, 2020From David Del Valle in Madrid

RTVE to receive €472m public aid

Spain’s public broadcaster, RTVE, will receive a state subsidy of €472 million in 2021, up €100 million from this year with the TV group losing €51 million in 2020. Since 2018, RTVE’s budget has increased by 2 per cent to €994 million with state subsidies growing by 38 per cent from €341 million in 2018 […]

November 6, 2020From David Del Valle in Madrid

Brainstorm brings photorealism to Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE

Brainstorm, a specialist company provider of real-time 3D graphics, virtual set and augmented reality solutions, has reached an agreement with RTVE and in collaboration with MR Factory to generate a series of hyper-realistic contents for the program “Aquí la Tierra”, a well-known daily show focused on meteorology and lifestyle, which will be broadcasted from today. […]

November 5, 2020

Spain tests 8K on DTT

Spain has become the first country to broadcast 8K content under the DVB-T2 standard on DTT. Public TV group RTVE has carried out the first transmissions, using DVB-T2 and Dolby AC-4 sound on the channel TVE 4K, operated by Cellnex Telecom, in several Spanish cities: Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela, Málaga and Ciudad […]

October 22, 2020From David Del Valle in Madrid

RTVE translated for the world with Google Cloud

Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE and Google have reached an agreement to use Google Cloud’s Artificial Intelligence and machine learning tools to translate subtitles of TV content from RTVE into different languages (English, Italian, French, German) aiming to reach an International audience. Currently, RTVE is subtitling in English its newscasts (Telediario 1 and 2 also in […]

September 16, 2020From David Del Valle in Madrid

RTVE, DAZN MotoGP deal

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has agreed a sublicensing deal with subscription OTT platform DAZN for two MotoGP races later this in 2020. RTVE will broadcast the Styria Grand Prix from Austria and the Aragon Grand Prix from Spain later this year with the first running from August 16th to 18th and the second from October […]

July 21, 2020From David Del Valle in Madrid