The National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC) has
fined Radio Televisión Española (TVE) - the main
Spanish Public TV Broadcaster- with 1,070,765 euros after deciding
in two resolutions that TVE had infringed the Law 8/2009 on
Financing the Public TV & Radio Corporation during 2017 and
2018.
According to the aforesaid regulation, TVE is not allowed to
include advertising content in their programs and pre-programs.
However, the law also establishes self-promotion and sports &
cultural sponsorships as exceptions to the general prohibition.
On the basis of sports and cultural sponsorships, TVE would have
been broadcasting advertisements on several television programs,
and CNMC, who oversees the proper functioning of the audiovisual
communication market, initiated two sanction procedures against TVE
to clarify if advertisements were or were not sports and cultural
sponsorships.
