2024-09-13 09:31:20
Rodrigo Cid stressed that even Mega productions and soap operas are recorded in the public channel’s facilities, in addition to clarifying where the resources come from to pay the salaries of TVN’s workers and main faces.
Rodrigo Cid, journalist and part of the TVN board, was in the Culture Commission of the Chamber of Deputies during the Discussion of the public channel modernization project and which also considers the injection of public funds to improve its operation.
On the occasion, Cid explained that TVN has a public mission, marked by the “children-cultural channel, NTV; the regional centers, and the international signal. Distinctive features of a public television that, as such, requires financing.”
In view of this, Deputy Jorge Durán (RN) questioned the management of NTV, stating that “it broadcasts content that many Chileans do not like, which for many Chileans is considered political indoctrination and in which sexual ideologies are transmitted (sic)in which there is a lot of content that can be shown, that can be accredited and that many Chileans have had complaints about the programming of the NTV cultural program.”
For its part, its by UDI Gustavo Benavente stated that the injected resources could be used to pay the salaries of the faces of the channel, jalong with proposing, in terms of infrastructure, that “In the TVN building, you can drive through its corridors, it’s a pharaonic thing (…). TVN’s chairman, Mr. Vidal, was asked if TVN could operate in a modern two-story building, and he said yes.”
In response, Rodrigo Cid said that, in the case of the central TVN building, “it is leased at around 35% or 40%, so it is not a building that is empty, like a white elephant. The way to make the spaces profitable has been sought, especially by renting the studios, so that other producers or directors can make different types of programs.”
Along these lines, he stressed that even Mega productions and soap operas are recorded in the public channel’s facilities, in addition to clarify where the resources come from to pay the salaries of workers and main faces of TVN.
“Today, public resources are not spent to finance the salaries of any person, of any worker (…). TVN’s resources that it currently allocates to pay salaries are self-generated through the sale of advertising, through the rental of its facilities, of the many ways that have been found to generate resources in the absence of permanent public financing,” he said.