RTVE
RTVE (Radiotelevisión Española) is Spain's national public-service broadcaster, providing television, radio, and online news in Spanish. As a publicly funded broadcaster, it aims for broad and balanced coverage of national and international affairs, politics, sport, and culture. It operates several television and radio channels and a widely used news website serving audiences across Spain.
RTVE at a glance
- Country
- Spain
- Region
- Southern Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Public broadcaster
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Ownership
- A public corporation owned by the Spanish state
- Published from
- Madrid
- Website
- rtve.es ↗
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How Crosswire groups RTVE
Crosswire groups RTVE as Centrist for comparisons within Spain's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Spain, elDiario.es and Público are listed as Left-leaning, while ABC and La Razón are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open RTVE beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where RTVE sits in Spain's press
RTVE is published from Madrid and is a public corporation owned by the Spanish state. It is one of 13 outlets tracked in Spain and the only public broadcaster tracked there. By outlets tracked, Spain ranks first of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 27 of the 59 public broadcasters in the directory. The nearest counterparts to RTVE outside Spain, starting with Southern Europe, are BBC News (United Kingdom), RTÉ News (Ireland), RÚV (Iceland) and NRK (Norway). Opening one of them beside RTVE is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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