Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra

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Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra, S.A. (Radio and Television of Andorra, PLC, or RTVA), is the public service television and radio broadcaster in the Principality of Andorra. It operates a television channel, ATV, and a radio station, RNA; both of which broadcast in Catalan.

1 History
2 Programming
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Former RTVA logo

Public service broadcasting in the principality began on 26 October 1989 after the General Council of Andorra decided a national broadcasting organisation should be set-up. As a result, the Organisme de Ràdio i Televisió d’Andorra (ORTA) was formed and radio station Ràdio Nacional d'Andorra (RNA) began broadcasting in December 1990. Andorra Televisió (ATV), Andorra's first television channel began in 1995. ORTA was funded by the Andorran government. All programming on both RNA and ATV was produced by independent companies until 1997 when ORTA began producing all of its own programming. ORTA was replaced by the current organisation, Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra S.A. (RTVA), on 13 April 2000.^[1] RTVA took full control of both RNA and ATV. RTVA is also funded by the government. Advertising provides additional revenue. Its current director-general is Gualbert Osorio Achurra. RTVA has been an active member of the European Broadcasting Union since 2002 and has taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest each year since 2004.^[2]^[3]

The broadcaster has to compete with TV and radio stations from both France and Spain whose transmissions can easily be picked up in the principality.

[edit] Programming

ATV shows a range of programming including sports, music, film and magazine shows as well as children's strand Club Piolet airing daily. The channel has a particular focus on football games in the acc news (ATV Noticies), broadcasting daily bulletins at 1345, 2100 and a late-night bulletin before midnight. Live parliament coverage is often broadcast. The channel usually broadcasts between the hours of 0730 and 2345 seven days a week and broadcasts information pages during closedown.^[4]

RNA broadcasts mostly music although news bulletins air on the hour, every hour. The station broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week. ^[5]

ATV and RNA are streamed online for free on RTVA's website though the ATV stream is sometimes replaced with a test card due to copyright restrictions on some programming.