Colombia. At the opening of the International Forum on Public Media, the ICT Minister, Sylvia Constaín, stressed that this year the national government has made a historic investment to strengthen national and regional public television of more than $300,000 million (about US$88 million).
"In 2020 we will continue to strengthen the audiovisual industry. We are going to make a 500% increase in the budget for the production of content for the micro, small and medium national producer through five calls, "announced the ICT minister.
The head of the ICT portfolio explained that in 2019 $4.2 billion (About US$1.2 million) was allocated to the call for the production of content in the audiovisual sector, through the ANTV (in liquidation), and for next year $21,000 million (about US$6.2 million) will be allocated through five sectoral calls, with the aim of giving greater participation to the different agents of the audiovisual market.
The calls for 2020 are: multimedia format to the ethnic population; multiplatform for local and community media, multiplatform for small and medium-sized enterprises in the audiovisual sector, multiplatform for traditional media and transmedia content creation.
"In total, this year the national government has made the largest investment in history in quality public content, exceeding $ 300,000 million," said Minister Constaín and indicated that this is only the beginning, since the strengthening of public television and radio is a priority for President Iván Duque.
90 years of radio in Colombia
Within the framework of the FIMPU, organized by RTVC and supported by MinTIC, the national government launched a philatelic broadcast that commemorates the 90th anniversary of radio in Colombia, this with the aim of making the maximum recognition to one of the media of greater acceptance and reach in our territory.
After the philatelic broadcast, 45,000 stamps will be in circulation that will take the history of Colombian radio to every corner of the country and the world, leaving high the work that for almost a century has been done by the technicians and professionals of this media. The stamps will also be displayed in the postal museums of the 192 member countries of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).
