Colombia. One of the delays in the process of awarding new private free-to-air television channels in Colombia has been due to the lack of an investment bank to establish the financial, economic, technical and legal conditions of the new concessions.
But this problem seems to have been overcome after the signing of an agreement between the National University and the National Television Authority, through which the University will be responsible for structuring the projects for new concessions of private national open television channels, local channels for profit and the spaces of Channel One.
The regulator entity stressed that the National University provides the guarantees of experience and high technical quality to support the structuring of the operation and exploitation of the aforementioned concessions. In total, the agreement reaches three billion pesos and expires on December 31 of this year.
He also pointed out that the analysis and evaluation of these three television markets will be fundamental to verify, not only the current scheme of provision of the open television service and the exploitation models, but, in particular, the need to generate audiovisual content that provides a new television offer.
Along with this agreement, the ANTV announced the arrival of a new Commissioner, lawyer Claudia Stela Núñez Duarte, as a representative of the President of the Republic, filling a vacancy that had been empty since July of last year, when Jaime Andrés Estrada resigned.
The new commissioner has a Specialization in Communications Law and experience in administrative law and state contracting. She served as Deputy Director of Surveillance and Control at the National Spectrum Agency. She has also been legal advisor to the Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies and the Surveillance and Security Fund of Bogotá.
In this way, the ANTV is waiting for the appointment of the commissioner representing the universities, who replaces Alfredo Sabbagh, who resigned a month ago.
