Quantitative analysis of the plurality in news programs of Nou at the last stage

Abstract

During the nearly seven months that Rosa Vidal and her new team headed RTVV, there was a turnaround in the news programs—essentials for a public television— that had totally lost prestige and audience after 24 years of history, most of them under the political power of the Partido Popular. That last turbulent period coincided with the implementation of a layoff that the High Court of Valencia void, causing the resolution to end the regional television broadcasts. Also at that time was launched the Charter and Agreement, instruments widely used in Spain in recent years to provide budget stability to public television. In this final stage, just before the closing ordered by President Alberto Fabra, several authors agree that there was an attempt to recover the informational independence. This article aims to prove it, analyzing the rundown of the news at the time, comparing with previous stages, and with data from other local tv stations. We are going to follow a methodology that Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya uses to its monthly reports on televisions of his scope.