Televisión Española
- This article is about Televisión Española. See also Town and village enterprises for TVEs in China.
Televisión Española (TVE) is the national state-owned public-service television broadcaster in Spain. TVE's activities are financed by a combination of advertising revenue and subsidies from the national government.
TVE belongs to the RTVE Group which has overall responsibility for national public-service radio and television under a government-appointed General Manager who, as well as being answerable to a Board of Directors, reports to an all-party committee of the national parliament, as provided for in the Public Radio and Television Statute of 1980.
Terrestrial (UHF) channels
TVE began broadcasting on 28 October 1956 on VHF. A second UHF channel was added in November 1966 and the two services are today known as TVE 1 - La Primera and TVE 2 - La Dos. Until the 1980's, they were the only channels in Spain. After the introduction of private channels, they lost audience, and lately they are not the most seen channels. It has been often accused of being manipulated by whoever ran the country. However they still hold an air of officialness as demonstrated every year by the audience of the New Year's Eve message of king Juan Carlos I. It is broadcast simultaneously by almost every Spanish channel but TVE gets the highest audience.
Satellite channels
Televisión Española also transmits a satellite service, TVE Internacional, in four different streams for Europe, Africa, Asia, and America.
News Services
Both the international channel and TVE 1 have regular news bulletins marketed under the Telediario name. Regional news bulletins are also broadcast at 14.00 (local time) on TVE 1 and 20.00 on TVE 2. TVE 2 also has its own national news bulletin, "La 2 Noticias" ("The 2 News"), which began as a breakfast news programme in the mid-1990s and was later revamped as a nightly news bulletin at 22.00.
Digital channels
- TVE Canal 24 Horas: a 24-hour news channel which began broadcasting on 15 September 1997
- TVE Canal Clásico: classical music
- Canal Docu TVE (formerly Grandes Documentales Hispavisión): documentaries
- TVE TeleDeporte: sports
- Canal TVE 50 Años (formerly Canal Nostalgia): archive material, renamed for TVE's 50th anniversary in 2006, time-shares with Clan TVE
- Clan TVE: children's channel, time-shares with Canal TVE 50 Años
These channels, except Canal Clásico and Docu TVE are available in digital terrestrial television.