Although it may seem otherwise, taking into account the enormous number of channels that DTT has, there are not so many communication groups that are in charge of their management. Only 9 large multimedia groups share the entire national audiovisual pie after the distribution made in the Second Digital Dividend.
These are the few owners that Digital Terrestrial Television currently has. Although the number of channels is high, only a few communication groups are in charge of them.
RTVE Corporation
Radiotelevisión Española, or Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española SA is the group that controls the public radio and television service in Spain. It is a state trading company dedicated to the indirect management of this service and was created in 2007; previously it was the Public Entity Radiotelevisión Española. The financing of Corporación RTVE comes from a part of the General State Budget in 50%, while with a 0.9% tax on telephone companies the other half of its financing is obtained, together with 3% of the income from open private televisions and 1.5% from pay televisions.
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The 1: The 1 of RTVE.
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The 2: The 2 of RTVE.
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24h: Thematic channel for news and current affairs programs that offer coverage of national and international news, the economy, sports, etc.
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Clan: Channel aimed at children.
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Teledeporte: Thematic channel for sports, information and broadcasting of sporting events.
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La 1 HD: La 1 of RTVE in high quality.
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La 2 HD: La 2 from RTVE in high quality.
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Clan HD: Clan channel in high quality.
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24h HD: 24h channel in high quality.
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Teledeporte HD: Teledeporte channel in high quality.
Atresmedia and Mediaset, the large private groups
Atresmedia Corporación de Medios y Comunicación SA is a commercial company resulting from the merger of the Antena 3 Group with the La Sexta Audiovisual Investment Manager. The parent company is Atresmedia Televisión, and in 1989 it obtained one of the three licenses for private television at the national level.
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Antena 3: Generalist channel with news, movies, series, magazines, etc.
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Neox: Channel designed for young people, children’s and youth series and entertainment programs.
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Nova: Leisure and lifestyle channel with programs on health, quality of life, cooking, travel, soap operas, movies, etc.
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Atres Series: Channel dedicated to the best Atresmedia series, and in high definition.
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Antena 3 HD: Antena 3 programming in high quality.
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La Sexta: Generalist channel with programming based on entertainment, humor and a family audience.
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Mega: Channel dedicated to successful series, sports events and documentaries.
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La Sexta HD: La Sexta programming in high quality.
As for Mediaset España, formerly known as Gestevisión Telecinco, it was created in 1989 and is a Spanish communication group of Mediaset, an Italian company. As part of Gestevisión are Publiespaña, Telecinco Cinema and Atlas, which were integrated by Mediaset España after the absorption of Cuatro in 2011. The PRISA Group is the majority shareholder, along with Mediaset SpA
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Telecinco: General channel with series, news, magazines, self-produced series and reality shows.
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FDF: Thematic channel dedicated to fiction programs and successful series.
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Boing: Channel aimed at children and young people.
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Telecinco HD: Telecinco programming in high definition.
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Cuatro: Generalist channel with varied programming based on entertainment, humor, series, documentaries and current affairs.
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Divinity: Channel with movies, series, soap operas and programs especially aimed at a female audience.
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E.Energy: Channel with sports broadcasts, documentaries, foreign series and some movies, especially aimed at a young, urban male audience.
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Be Mad: Varied channel aimed at a young audience.
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Cuatro HD: Cuatro programming in high quality.
Other owners with a lower percentage of DTT
If we review the rest of the groups that operate in Digital Terrestrial Television nationwide, we find, for example, Net TV, which has subleased Disney Channel and Paramount Network, the two channels it operates.
Another of the nine concessionary companies of a multiple channel license for Digital Terrestrial Television in Spain is Veo Televisión, owned by Unidad Editorial (MARCA, El Mundo). In his case, they have DMax programming, a varied channel with content on the motor, cooking, wild world, etc. and Gol Televisión (now Gol Play), a sports channel known for being the one that broadcasts the open game of each day of The league.
The Episcopal Conference grouped its media under the Ábside Media platform, which now unifies Cope, Cadena 100, Rock FM, MegaStarFM and 13TV. Precisely the group operates the latter, under the name of THIRTEEN, a generalist channel that offers among its programming spaces of religious content, documentaries, cinema, information and series.
Radio Blanca, also identified as Grupo KISS Media, is the owner of KISS FM on radio and on DTT they have DKiss, defined as a generalist channel aimed at a young-adult female audience.
Grupo Secuoya is a communication group with a presence in Spain, dedicated to the creation, production and distribution of audiovisual and digital content. But also with a presence in Colombia, Chile, Peru, Mexico and the United States. This communication group is in charge of Ten, a family channel with a prime time slot starting at 8:30 p.m.
Finally, Real Madrid Televisión has a national broadcasting license, so Real Madrid fans from all the Autonomous Communities can watch the television of the club chaired by Florentino Pérez, a Madrid channel made by and for sports lovers, as information will also be included sporty.
