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Spain finalises HD DTT migration

Spain is readying for the migration to HD for all its DTT TV channels on February 14th. From that date onwards, all DTT transmissions will have to be HD as SD will be switched off. The country is now under an intense media campaign to prepare for the switchover with the Administration launching an  online […]

January 23, 2024From David Del Valle in Madrid

Make Up Stars premieres Dec 31 on Rakuten TV

Make Up Stars, the new talent show produced by RTVE Play in co-production with Rakuten TV and Mega TV, is looking for the next great make-up professional. The show, hosted by Pilar Rubio, premieres on RTVE Play on 19 December and on Rakuten TV, one of Europe’s leading streaming platforms, on December 31st. Make Up […]

December 12, 2023

Memnon selected by Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuale

Memnon, the content preservation and migration services provider, and broadcast and audiovisual solutions specialist Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales (TSA) have announced a partnership that will preserve more than 200,000 hours of content from Spanish public television archives. TSA, a Telefónica Group company, is responsible for the project management, infrastructure supply and coordination of the audiovisual archive […]

December 5, 2023

Celebrity Bake Off heading to Spain

BBC Studios Distribution has licensed the Love Productions format, The Great Celebrity Bake Off, to Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE. The Spanish series, titled Bake Off – Famosos al Horno, will be produced locally by Boxfish to air on RTVE’s, La 1 Channel. The Spanish adaptation will be presented by local actor and presenter Paula Vazquez […]

December 4, 2023

5G UHD-HDR broadcast success for UHD Spain

UHD Spain, a trade association dedicated to advancing the future of broadcasting technologies, has achieved a milestone in 5G UHD-HDR quality broadcasting in partnership with TVU Networks, a cloud-based workflow solutions for live content production and distribution, and Radio 3 (RTVE). The collaboration demonstrated the potential of easily integrating professional REMI production into any media […]

November 22, 2023

Telefónica distributes RTVE Europe for DTH

Telefónica is to distribute RTVE via satellite in Europe for the next two years in an agreement worth €1.71 million. The operator will distribute TVE Internacional HD and 24 Horas HD, as well as six RTVE radio stations. Telefónica Servicios Audiovisuales will take the signal from Madrid and will transmit in DVB-SA on Ku-band through […]

October 4, 2023From David Del Valle in Madrid

RTVE launches second UHD channel

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has launched TVE UHD 2, its second UHD TV channel, following the launch of TVE UHD earlier this year. TVE UHD 2 is broadcasting all content from sports channel Teledeporte while TVE UHD is offering La 1. Viewers must have a 4K TV set equipped with a DVB-T2 STB using a […]

August 9, 2023From David Del Valle in Madrid

RTVE UHD set for Feb 2024 launch

The Board of Directors of Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has unanimously approved a proposal to start regular broadcasts in Ultra High Definition (UHD-4K) beginning on February 15th, 2024. With this agreement, RTVE says it is at the forefront of broadcasting in UHD-4K in open DTT, accessible by the entire population for free and on a […]

July 24, 2023By Colin Mann

RTVE deploys LiveU’s IP cloud services

RTVE, Spain’s public broadcaster with production centers across the country, has turned to LiveU to provide the IP bonding technology and cloud-based services it needs to improve its content gathering capacity and production efficiency. The broadcaster has acquired a large number of units to be based in domestic and international capital cities around the world, […]

May 16, 2023

Cellnex taps Synamedia for RTVE broadcasting

Video software provider Synamedia has announced that Cellnex group, the telecommunications and broadcasting infrastructure operator, will be deploying Synamedia virtual Digital Content Manager (vDCM)  to support the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE. Cellnex said it chose Synamedia because of vDCM’s ability to future-proof RTVE’s infrastructure. For the first time, Cellnex will move to a software-only environment […]

April 12, 2023