The Breakup of a Giant: The PRISA Group and Latin America
Over the past seven years, Spain’s largest communications group, which had become a giant in the cultural industries in Latin America, has gone through the...
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The failure and success of the structural reform of telecommunications and radio broadcasting in Mexico
What happened? Why couldn’t or wouldn’t Mexico radically modify the status quo of radio transmission and telecommunications?…...
A great deal to do and no interest in doing it: The 2018 agenda for the Colombian media system
Colombia is the Wonderland of media, freedom of expression, and digital culture. We are told and we tell ourselves that we are free, that we...
Beyond the Audiovisual Law, How to face convergence?
While it is true that there is no successful experience that frames this development at the global level, that of Argentina was a lost opportunity...
An Opportunity for Change for Communications Policies in El Salvador
The President-elect pledged to promote the participation of new stakeholders in the media. This opens up an opportunity, and we need to ensure that such...
Key Issues in Uruguay’s Transition to Digital TV
Openness to new operators, transparency, procedures using public competitions and equitable access to frequencies are fundamental facets of a transition that seeks to create greater...
The Current Situation of State-run Media in Paraguay
Paraguay has made changes to its state-run media system through a restructuring of the organization, operation, and administrative functioning of its elements....
Digital TV in Mexico: What Not to Do
The case of the transition to digital TV in Mexico should be analyzed so that other countries can avoid making the same mistakes and causing...
The Promises of a Bad Law
Chile’s community radio law didn’t even pass the “purity test.” After years of work, radio stations have received a result that leaves them in the...
Nota conceptual – UNESCO: Día Mundial de la Libertad de Prensa 2014
Nota conceptual – UNESCO Día Mundial de la Libertad de Prensa 2014 by Observacom...
Spain: Supreme Court Mandates Reorganization of Digital Terrestrial Television.
Javier García García*. Spain, may 2014. Versión en español | Versão em Português After successfully completing the transition from analog to digital television, the...
Introducing Digital Television in Peru without Community Engagement
Miriam Larco Sicheri*. Peru, may 2014. Versión en español | Versão em Português In 2009, the Peruvian government adopted the Japanese ISDB-T (Integrated Service Digital...