Argentina. The National Communications Agency, Enacom, held a new Board meeting in which 43 licenses were awarded for the installation, operation and exploitation of audiovisual communication services by frequency modulation in the provinces of Mendoza (27), Tucumán (3), Santiago del Estero (4), Formosa (2), La Rioja (2) and Misiones (5).
To this are added the 36 licenses already granted previously, adding a total of 79, in the provinces of Catamarca, Corrientes, Jujuy, Tierra del Fuego, Chaco, Chubut, La Pampa and San Luis.
Likewise, progress was made in the standardization of radios through the regularization of 16 Precarious and Provisional Permits (PPP), which will allow ordering and improving the administration of the spectrum, equalizing rights and obligations between providers. These licenses were issued to the following radio stations:
- FM MALVINAS 91.5 (Buenos Aires)
- FM RDT 106.9 (Buenos Aires)
- FM AVELLANEDA 107.3 (Buenos Aires)
- FM 90.1 (Mendoza)
- FM HORIZONTE 94.1 (Santa Fe)
- FM URBANA 101.5 (Tucumán)
- FM MONUMENTAL 90.1 (Santa Fe)
- RADIO BRISAS 98.5 (Buenos Aires)
- RADIO DEL AIRE 89.5 (Buenos Aires)
- FM SUDOESTE 104.1 (Buenos Aires)
- FM TITANIUM 92.9 (Buenos Aires)
- FM ILUSIONES 107.5 (Buenos Aires)
- CHAIN 3 ROSARIO 106.7 (Santa Fe)
- FM 2000 92.3 (Tucumán)
- URBANA 89.7 (Cordoba)
- FM HORIZONTE 103.7 (San Juan)
These licenses are in addition to the 31 already delivered previously, continuing in evaluation more than 300 applications from different parts of the country.
In this regard, the president of Enacom, Silvana Giudici, said: "We are fulfilling our challenge of normalizing the situation of the FM in Argentina, a regularization plan that comes to settle a debt of democracy that is 30 years old."
It also approved the opening of new simplified public tenders for the award of FM radio licenses in those places where radio spectrum is available. The initiative will be implemented in the provinces of La Rioja, Formosa, Misiones and Santiago del Estero from 1 to 12 July; and in Mendoza and Tucumán from July 22 to August 2.
