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On 14 September 2000, the Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (Telecommunications Market Commission - CMT) rejected a submission for a permit to provide local terrestrial TV services. This submission was presented by Tele K, a local TV operator which started to provide its services before the Spanish Act 41/1995 on Local Terrestrial TV was passed, and therefore is affected by the Transitional Provision of this Law, which states that the local TV operators that were providing services before January 1995 are authorised to continue with their activity until the concessions are granted....

On 31 July 2000, the Plenary Meeting of the Consejo para las Emisiones y Retransmisiones Deportivas (Committee for the Broadcasting of Sport Events) approved the Code of Listed Sports Events for the 2000/2001 season. Sports affected are football, cycling, basketball, handball, motorcycle racing, track & field events and tennis. The Code indicates which events in each of these sports must be broadcast on free-to-air TV (provided a free-to-air broadcaster is interested in doing so). In addition, it ought to be noted that Art. 5 of Law 21/1997 states that a match from every league or cup competition...

On 7 February 2000 the Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court) rejected an appeal by the local Government of Viladecans against the Real Decreto 2169/1998, de 9 de octubre, por el que se aprueba el Plan Técnico Nacional de la Televisión Digital Terrenal (Decree 2169/1998, on the National Technical Plan on Digital Terrestrial TV) (see IRIS 1998-10: 11). According to the applicant, the Decree does not regulate the provision of Digital Terrestrial TV (DTTV) services by local governments nor does it reserve part of the spectrum to allow the migration of the existing local TV managed by local authorities...

The Parliament of Castilla-La Mancha (one of the seventeen Spanish Autonomous Communities) has recently approved an act on the creation of a regional public broadcaster. The creation of this public regional broadcaster has been made in accordance with State Act 43/1983 (the so called Third TV Channel Act). This act states that regional public TV services must be provided by a company whose capital shall be fully owned by the regional Government. The main bodies of the public regional broadcasters shall be the Board and the Director. Both of them are placed under the control of the regional legislative...

The Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (Telecommunications Market Commission - CMT), is an independent regulatory body whose main duty is to safeguard the existence of free competition in the telecommunications and audio-visual and interactive services markets. The CMT also enforces the Spanish Law 17/1997, which incorporates into Spanish Law EC Directive 95/47, on the use of standards for the transmission of television signals. The Board of the CMT has recently adopted several Decisions related to the audio-visual sector: - In May 2000, the CMT adopted a Decision allowing Quiero TV,...