Colombia. Due to the high operating costs and the notorious cases of corruption that have been known of the entity, the Congress of the Republic of Colombia approved the elimination of the constitutional rank of the National Television Commission, CNTV, the highest regulatory body of television in that country.
With this decision, Congress gave free rein for the Colombian Government to eliminate the entity and delegate the functions that it has to another direction.
This is the ninth attempt made in the Colombian legislature to eliminate it after 20 years of creation, time in which it has been strongly questioned, among other things, by the constant trips abroad of the commissioners, investigations for corruption in contracts advanced by the entity and that today have imprisoned several former members.
These and other facts make the CNTV require an excessively high budget, which costs the State $80 billion annually (about US$40,000).
The Minister of Information and Communications Technologies of Colombia, TICs, Diego Molano, explained that he expects that within a maximum period of six months the current Commission will be eliminated.
To this end, it will present on July 20, the day that begins the second period of ordinary sessions of Congress, the project to eliminate the entity and who will assume control of television in Colombia.
Although this project has not yet been disclosed, so far it is known that the idea of the Colombian Government is that the Telecommunications Regulation Commission is in charge of the spectrum and an address would be created, in the same entity or in the Ministry of ICTs, in charge of the control of the contents.
