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Corporació Catalana de Ràdio i Televisió

Corporació Catalana de Ràdio i Televisió

Overview
The Catalan Corporation of Media or Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (CCMA) is the public radio and television company in Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain. The capital city is Barcelona.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an official population of 7,364,078. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the...

 owned by Generalitat de Catalunya
Generalitat de Catalunya
The Generalitat de Catalunya is the institution under which the Spanish Autonomous Community of Catalonia is politically organised...

.

The CCRTV is a public corporation created by the Generalitat de Catalunya
Generalitat de Catalunya
The Generalitat de Catalunya is the institution under which the Spanish Autonomous Community of Catalonia is politically organised...

 by a Founding Act that passed the Parliament of Catalonia
Parliament of Catalonia
The Parliament of Catalonia is the unicameral legislature of Catalonia. It is formed by 135 members , who are elected every four years in ordinary period, or extraordinarily upon dissolution and call of elections by the President of Catalonia, by universal suffrage in proportional lists with four...

 on May 18, 1983. It answers to the Parliamentary Control Commission and to the Catalan Audiovisual Council. It is funded through the Generalitat's General Budget as well as by income and yield from CCRTV's own activities.
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The Catalan Corporation of Media or Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (CCMA) is the public radio and television company in Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain. The capital city is Barcelona.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an official population of 7,364,078. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the...

 owned by Generalitat de Catalunya
Generalitat de Catalunya
The Generalitat de Catalunya is the institution under which the Spanish Autonomous Community of Catalonia is politically organised...

.

The CCRTV is a public corporation created by the Generalitat de Catalunya
Generalitat de Catalunya
The Generalitat de Catalunya is the institution under which the Spanish Autonomous Community of Catalonia is politically organised...

 by a Founding Act that passed the Parliament of Catalonia
Parliament of Catalonia
The Parliament of Catalonia is the unicameral legislature of Catalonia. It is formed by 135 members , who are elected every four years in ordinary period, or extraordinarily upon dissolution and call of elections by the President of Catalonia, by universal suffrage in proportional lists with four...

 on May 18, 1983. It answers to the Parliamentary Control Commission and to the Catalan Audiovisual Council. It is funded through the Generalitat's General Budget as well as by income and yield from CCRTV's own activities. Its subsidiaries can partly finance themselves through advertising, sponsorship and the sale of merchandise and programming.

Catalunya Ràdio
Catalunya Ràdio
Catalunya Ràdio is Catalonia's public radio network. It's part of Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals, owned by the Generalitat de Catalunya. Catalunya Ràdio broadcasts exclusively in Catalan and is the major Catalan-language network today, although Ràdio 4 was the first post-war station to...

 started broadcasting on June 20, 1983, while its first television channel, TV3
TV3 (Catalonia)
TV3 is the name of Catalonia's first public television channel. It belongs to Televisió de Catalunya , a subsidiary of the CCRTV. TV3 broadcasts programs only in Catalan, with an optional dual track in the original language for some foreign-language series and movies...

, started its trial broadcast on September 11 of the same year.

On September 2006, CCRTV received the EFQM
EFQM
EFQM or European Foundation for Quality Management is a non-profit membership foundation that seeks to support organisations and their senior leaders in their need to implement strategies. Today, EFQM's network encompasses well over 600 organisations. These enterprises work together to improve...

 Excellence Award for its organisational gestion.

Televisió de Catalunya



Televisió de Catalunya
Televisió de Catalunya
Televisió de Catalunya is Catalonia's public broadcasting network, officially composed of seven channels: TV3, 33, K3, 3/24, 300, TV3CAT and Canal Super3. It is part of the Corporació Catalana de Ràdio i Televisió, a public corporation created by the Generalitat de Catalunya by a Founding Act in...

 is Catalonia's public broadcasting
Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets that receive some or all of their funding from the public. Public broadcasters may receive their funding from individuals through voluntary donations, a specific tax such as a television licence fee, or as direct...

 network, composed of six channels, with TV3
TV3 (Catalonia)
TV3 is the name of Catalonia's first public television channel. It belongs to Televisió de Catalunya , a subsidiary of the CCRTV. TV3 broadcasts programs only in Catalan, with an optional dual track in the original language for some foreign-language series and movies...

 as its flagship channel. TVC is headquartered in Sant Joan Despí
Sant Joan Despí
Sant Joan Despí is a city and municipality located in the Baix Llobregat area . It is situated on the left bank of the Llobregat river...

, near Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the capital, most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the 11th-most populous municipality in the European Union and sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris,...

.

Catalunya Ràdio



Catalunya Ràdio
Catalunya Ràdio
Catalunya Ràdio is Catalonia's public radio network. It's part of Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals, owned by the Generalitat de Catalunya. Catalunya Ràdio broadcasts exclusively in Catalan and is the major Catalan-language network today, although Ràdio 4 was the first post-war station to...

 is Catalonia's public radio network. It has four stations, the most important of is its namesake Catalunya Ràdio, the audience leader in Catalonia. Catalunya Ràdio is headquartered in Barcelona.

CCRTV interactiva


CCRTV interactiva creates and distributes interactive media content for the other companies of the corporation.

CCRTV Administració Sistemes d'Informació


Provides support for management, planning, development, systems and computing.

Corporate Shareholdings

  • Agència Catalana de Notícies (Catalan News Agency) - Major shareholder.
  • Vang 3 Publication - A publishing company founded by CCRTV and La Vanguardia
    La Vanguardia
    La Vanguardia is a Spanish daily newspaper, the fourth most read in the country and the one with the highest-circulation in Catalonia...

    .

The TV3 Marathon Foundation


Created by the CCRTV to manage the funds raised by the annual telethon
Telethon
align="right" | |}A telethon is a fundraising event broadcast on television that lasts many hours or even days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political, or other allegedly worthy cause...

 La Marató de TV3, devoted to raise funds for scientific research into diseases that are currently incurable.