The new concession contract of public service TV and radio provides for the creation of four new ch

The new concession contract of public service TV and radio provides for the creation of four new channels by RTP with theme music, education, civil society and the juvenile. Additionally, the headquarters of the international services of RTP will go to Porto.
"The launch of new channels depends on studies and their suitability to the financial sustainability of the company and is authorized by the authority or by the supervisory authority to create new," said the Deputy Minister and Regional Development, which oversees the public media. According to Miguel Poiares Maduro, which is being heard in Parliament on its proposals for public service, the new concession contract will be put out for public consultation in the next 17 days through a micro-site where you can make contributions to citizens . Then these will be discussed in an initiative called launch bike park Public Service Day, a day dedicated to the discussion of the concession contract, which will run in RTP. International channels in Puerto Among other novelties of the proposed concession contract of public service, is the installation in Porto, the headquarters launch bike park of international channels. The minister says that this issue has been discussed with the company management. The choice of this city lies in the fact that this region have a "particularly vibrant business community." What falls within the strategy announced four months launch bike park ago by the Minister to put international channels play a key role in economic and cultural promotion of the country abroad. The remodeling of international channels also based on a reinforcement of content, which will be specific to those antennas, contrary to what happens now. They may even be different depending on the content area of the globe for that issue and there is even the possibility of being subtitled in English, said Miguel Poiares Maduro. International channels help thus argued the minister, "to streamline the independent audiovisual market, providing launch bike park critical mass within the company should co-produce with this market." This strategy of fostering and promoting independent film is, moreover, extends to all channels. Therefore, the RTP will no longer be content producer to be essentially aggregator and distributor, such as PUBLIC already had reported. The intention launch bike park of the minister is "positioning the public service TV audiovisual market as regulator launch bike park and promoter of its variety." The minister announced the creation within the RTP of a "nucleus of specialists producers, gender programming, for new ideas, and a core of creativity, that interacts with the Portuguese audiovisual market will be created." RTP info windows with regional Among the adjustments to the national channels open sign, BBC1 will continue to be a channel aimed at the general public, but with "innovative and differentiated formats," the BBC2 will have a "clearer identity, focusing on cultural programming. " RTP information will have a bet on the "depth map, with aspects of regional proximity," being provided information windows for each region. Is also planned to "create a code of conduct and ethics, which will be the basis of periodic self-assessment by the company's own services." As the PUBLIC launch bike park had reported, the Minister announced the creation of a supervisory body, which helps to "avoid the risks of governmentalisation RTP and contribute to more effective management of the company." This independent entity launch bike park will be presented in November. Another novelty of the concession agreement designed by Poiares Maduro is the aggregation, in the same contract, the television and radio services - when even here there are different contracts - because it presupposes an integrated vision of public service media in the light of the new reality, in which both the TV and the radio must operate. & Nbs