What was the subsidiary of RTVE in Aug 1989?
RTVE The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española , S.A . ( Spanish Radio and Television Corporation ; RTVE ) is the state-owned public corporation that assumed the indirect management of the Spanish public radio and television service formerly called Ente Público Radiotelevisión Española in 2007 . RTVE is the largest audiovisual group in Spain broadcasting in the Spanish language . Since January 2010 it is financed exclusively by public subsidies . History . RTVE throughout its history has undergone numerous restructurings and reorganisations , and has assumed numerous identities . The history of RTVE begins in 1937 with the first broadcasts by Radio Nacional de España ( RNE—Spanish National Radio ) from the city of Salamanca . In these early years , RNE served as a propaganda tool for the Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War ; it would later be used by Francisco Franco to inform the Spanish public . The national radio service depended successively on the FET y de las JONSs , on the ( since 1945 ) and on the Ministry of Information and Tourism , since the creation of the latter in 1951 . It was in July 1945 , as competencies over Press and Propaganda were transferred to the Ministry of National Education when radio broadcasting became a standalone directorate general : the Dirección General de Radiodifusión ( Directorate General for Radio Broadcasting ) . Television was officially introduced in Spain in October 1956 , and in October 1973 the two broadcasting networks , RNE and Televisión Española ( TVE—Spanish Television ) were consolidated into the Servicio Público Centralizado RadioTelevisión Española ( RTVE Centralised Public Service ) . Further consolidations followed in 1977 , at which time RTVE became an . In 1979 , TVE and RNE were joined by Radiocadena Española ( RCE ) , an old radio service that , unlike RNE , could broadcast commercials . In 1980 , RTVE was configured , by statute , as a legal public entity with its own jurisdiction . According to RTVEs annual report ( 2003 ) : This law arose from the Spanish Constitution and the political pluralism which the constitution asserts as a fundamental value of the rule of law ; and in this spirit granted RTVE the right to function as a democratic organisation . The former cinema newsreels service NO-DO was merged into RTVE to be dismantled in 1981 . Since then , the NO-DO archives are property of RTVE and its conservation is on their hands and Filmoteca Nacionals . In 1989 , RCE was dismantled and its radio service was merged into RNE . In accordance with the Law of State Radio and Television of 5 June 2006 , and in the face of an enormous deficit , the RTVE Public Body and the companies TVE , S.A . and RNE , S.A were dissolved , and on 1 January 2007 , Corporación RTVE came into existence . This change in the law put Corporación RTVE in control of Spains public radio and television service . As part of the 2007 restructuring , a controversial plan was put into action to reduce the workforce by 4,855 through attrition and retirement incentives , in spite of the fact that RTVE was the major European public broadcasting service with the smallest workforce . In 2012 political tensions associated with the austerity program of the conservative ruling party , Partido Popular ( PP ) resulted in personnel changes which displaced journalists interviewed by the centre-left The Guardian , interpreted as an effort to remove critical political comment from RTVEs content . In 2012 the PP began staffing RTVE with party veterans . Considerable controversy was caused when Ana Pastor was fired . On 11 June 2013 , RTVE was one of the few known European broadcasters to condemn and criticise the closure of Greeces state broadcaster ERT . In December 2018 , RTVE launched a web with Filmoteca Española , which is available via Internet with more than 4000 videos of Spanish films and documentaries . Amid the inability to reach a parliamentary agreement for the renovation of the administration board of RTVE , Rosa María Mateo was appointed as Provisional Sole Administrator in July 2018 . In February 2021 , the renovation was unblocked and José Manuel Pérez Tornero was shortlisted as the future chairman of the corporation . Thus , the new board was constituted on 26 March 2021 , with José Manuel Pérez Tornero as chairman and Elena Sánchez Caballero , José Manuel Martín Medem , Carmen Sastre , Jenaro Castro , Juan José Baños , Roberto Lakidain , Ramón Colom , Consuelo Aparicio and Concepción Cascajosa as board members . Television channels . RTVEs own television service comes under the Televisión Española ( TVE ) division of RTVE . All of TVEs channels broadcast in Spanish , with the exception of the broadcast of Catalan-language segments in La 1 and La 2 in the territory of Catalonia produced by . Radio stations . RTVEs radio stations come under the Radio Nacional de España ( RNE ) division of RTVE . RTVE is also responsible for the Instituto Oficial de Radio y Televisión ( IORTV , Official Institute of Radio and TV ) and the Orquesta Sinfónica y Coro de RTVE ( RTVE Symphony Orchestra and Choir ) . RTVE ( as RNE ) was admitted to full active membership of the European Broadcasting Union in 1955 . TVE joined the Eurovision Network in 1960 . The corporation has contributed to the production of more than 300 films , many of which have received awards at international film festivals around the world . From 1979 to 1987 , a second radio network known as Radiocadena Española was also a part of RTVE . RCE stations , unlike RNE , showed advertising . RCE was merged into RNE between 1987 and 1989 . NO-DO was also merged into RTVE in 1980 . Since NO-DOs closure in 1982 , RTVE and Filmoteca Española are responsible for maintaining NO-DOs archives . Internet . RTVE offers an online portal at rtve.es . The website is managed by RTVEs Interactive Media department ( ) and allows users to listen and watch live feeds of the networks radio and television stations . The portal also features blogs , news stories and offers an online catch-up service called . RTVE also offers a streaming platform aimed towards young people , Playz . Management . Pursuant to the 2006 Law of State Radio and Television , management of the national public service is entrusted to . The Board ( ) of the RTVE is the main body of RTVE , and appoints the executive officers of RTVE and its companies , approves its organisation , and approves most major activities . The Board is composed of 12 members ; 8 members are chosen by Congress and 4 by the Senate , each by two-thirds majority and each for a non-renewable mandate of 6 years , and 2 members appointed by Congress must be proposed by the 2 main trade unions at RTVE . The Chair has operational control of day-to-day operations , in order to execute the decisions and guidance of the Board . The Chair is appointed by , and may be dismissed by , Congress . Before the 2006 Act , this position was filled by the role of the Director General , which had a de facto total control of RTVE . In practice , the Director General had been chosen by the Government for their political profile . Corporación RTVE is described as a state mercantile society ( sociedad mercantil estatal ) with special autonomy and independence from the government and the general state administration , and it performs its functions through TVE and RNE . Most staff are civil servants . The News Council is an internal supervisory body composed of RTVE journalists with the aim of safeguarding RTVEs independence . Director Generals of Radiodifusión y Televisión . - ( 1957–1962 ) - ( 1962–1964 ) - Jesús Aparicio-Bernal Sánchez ( 1964–1969 ) - Adolfo Suárez González ( 1969–1973 ) - ( 1973–1974 ) - Juan José Rosón Pérez ( 1974 ) - Jesús Sancho Rof ( 1974–1975 ) - ( 1975–1976 ) - ( 1976–1977 ) Director General of Organismo Autónomo RTVE . - ( 1977–1981 ) Director Generals of Ente Público RTVE . - ( 1981 ) - Carlos Robles Piquer ( 1981–1982 ) - Eugenio Nasarre Goicoechea ( 1982 ) - ( 1982–1986 ) - Pilar Miró Romero ( 1986–1989 ) - Luis Solana Madariaga ( 1989–1990 ) - ( 1990–1996 ) - ( 1996–1997 ) - ( 1997–1998 ) - Pío Cabanillas Alonso ( 1998–2000 ) - ( 2000–2002 ) - ( 2002–2004 ) - ( 2004–2007 ) President of Corporación RTVE . - ( 2007–2009 ) - Alberto Oliart Saussol ( 2009–2011 ) - ( 2011–2014 ) - ( 2014–2018 ) - Rosa María Mateo Isasi ( 2018–2021 ) - José Manuel Pérez Tornero ( 2021– ) Correspondents . Televisión Española . - Carlos Franganillo – ( Washington , D.C. ) . - Almudena Ariza – ( New York City ) . - Iñigo Herráiz – ( Mexico City ) . - Nuria Ramos – ( Bogotá ) . - Marcos López – ( Rio de Janeiro ) . - José Ramón Patterson – ( Brussels ) . - Miguel Ángel Idígoras – ( London ) . - Marisa Rodríguez Palop – ( Paris ) . - Lorenzo Milá Mencos – ( Rome ) . - Aurora Mínguez – ( Berlin ) . - Miguel Ángel García – ( Lisbon ) . - Luis Pérez – ( Rabat ) . - Óscar Mijallo – ( Jerusalem ) . - Érika Reija – ( Moscow ) . - Mavi Doñate – ( Beijing ) . Radio Nacional de España . - Fran Sevilla – ( Washington , D.C. ) . - Antonio Delgado – ( Brussels ) . - Jodri Barcia – ( London ) . - Paco Forjas – ( Paris ) . - Sagrario Ruiz de Apodaca – ( Rome ) . - Fernando Martínez Chacón – ( Berlin ) . - Cristina Sánchez – ( Jerusalem ) .