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The Government of the Canary Islands and the Ministerio de Fomento (Ministry of Development) have been in dispute since the summer of 1998 over the participation of private broadcasters in regional public television ( see IRIS 1998-9:14). In July 1998, the Government of the Canary Islands applied to the Spanish Government for a licence in order to create a regional public television, in accordance with the provision contained in Law 46/1983 (Third Channel TV Act). At the same time, the Government of the Canary Islands invited tenders to decide which private broadcaster would provide this service....

Certain provisions of the 1988 Private TV Law, which regulates national terrestrial TV, have been amended. These amendments mainly affect two areas: ownership limits and transparency measures. According to the previous ownership limits, a media undertaking could only hold shares in one concessionaire, and its holding could not exceed 25% of the share capital. A breach of these limits could have resulted in the loss of the concession, but the Law provided that if the infringement was in connection with the 25% limit, the concessionaire had a period of one month to remedy the infringement. The amendment...

The Spanish Government has approved two Ministerial Orders on digital terrestrial TV. The first establishes that within three months of the publication of the Ministerial Order, existing private TV broadcasters may apply for a temporary concession to manage a digital programme service in a multiplex. These concessions would last until the end of their current concessions, in the year 2000. The Ministerial Order also states that each multiplex will be able to carry five digital programme services. The second Ministerial Order indicates which cities shall be covered in each of the different phases...

A Bill on the amendment of the Private TV Law 1988 has been presented to the Spanish Parliament. The amendment would allow private broadcasting companies to be listed on the stock exchange. Under the current provisions of the Private TV Law, the broadcasting companies must be public limited companies, and they must have registered shares, in order to allow the public authorities knowledge of who are the owners of these broadcasting companies. Registered shares cannot be sold in a stock market. According to the Bill, the shares would no longer have to be registered. Instead, the relevant individuals...

A Decree on the National Technical Plan on Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV) has been approved in order to establish DTTV services in Spain. The legal basis of the Decree is the forty-fourth Additional Provision of Law 66/1997, of 30. December 1997, which refers to the possible introduction of these new services. According to this Decree, there will be several transmission networks called "multiplexes", each of which will be able to carry at least four different programme services. The Decree reserves programme services in some of the multiplexes for existing national and regional public service...