TV Fix

Updated -- 9 June, 0800.

From today's Valencia Life:


BARBERA ON THE ATTACK

During an official visit to Valencia’s Central Market yesterday, Mayoress Rita Barbera unleashed a series of accusations against state broadcaster RTVE, starting by saying that she highly supported the decision of the advisory body of the World Family Forum in that local broadcaster RTVV be the host for the meeting ‘as RTVE simply cannot be trusted’. She also added that she failed to see why the Americas Cup Consortium should pay RTVE eight million Euros in production costs for them to cover the races in Valencia, when virtually no national airtime at all was offered to the event. “RTVE belongs to the Government who also have a stake in the Cup races, which makes this attitude doubly strange,” she went on, “ By comparison RTVV has both special programmes and special Americas Cup sections in their newscasts.” Michel Bonnefous, the Director of the Americas Cup Management Committee also offered a similar, if somewhat more discreet point of view, stating that he was ‘not at all pleased’ with the coverage the Americas Cup was getting at the hands of RTVE, but refused to go into any details about how he hoped to alter RTVE’s attitude towards the international event.

A spokesman for RTVE stated that Louis Vuitton Acts 10 & 11 were broadcast live on the broadcaster’s TeleDeporte Channel, but this is only available on cable or on the various digital platforms.


Speaking of ACTV, by all accounts the production of the host broadcast during Acts 10 and 11 was disappointing. The CC has written a strong letter with constructive comments to ACM, and have received an encouraging response from ACM's COO Michel Hodara. All are hoping Act 12 will see a dramatic improvement.



As Pope John Paul II reportedly said, "If it doesn't happen on TV, it doesn't happen."