Colombia. The Communications Regulatory Commission, CRC, presented its latest Data Flash, an industry report, this time focused on broadcast television. The report highlights the importance of family programs on the country's free-to-air TV.
The analysis, carried out during the first half of 2022, showed that family programs on Colombian open television represented 78.7% of the programming broadcast monthly, while children's programming was 6.9%, adolescent programming remained at 5.8% and adult programming at 8%.
The report covers the contents of the programming schedules and institutional spaces of open television in Colombia, the programs broadcast with some support system for deaf people and those that contain native, ethical or creole languages, as well as the figures of petitions, complaints and claims presented by viewers during the first half of 2022.
In terms of content, family programming had an increase of 3.7% compared to the first half of 2021. And in children's programming during this period, it had a decrease of 4%, compared to the first semester of 2021, representing 6.9% of the total hours broadcast.
With regard to the use of support systems for deaf and hard of hearing people, the report notes that it decreased by 3 percentage points compared to the first half of 2021. Thus, programs with subtitling showed a decrease, from 8.5% to 7.4% of programs; while programs with closed caption fell from 51.2% in the first half of 2021 to 48.3% in 2022 and those with sign language interpretation went from 7% to 6.6%.
Decrease in PQR
Regarding requests, complaints and claims to free-to-air TV channels, the report showed a decrease during the first half of 2022. Compared to the same period in 2021, PQRS decreased by 57.5%, registering a total of 2,481 complaints in the semester. 26% of the PQRS received in the first half of 2022 were related to the content of the programming broadcast and 16% to information pluralism.
This Data Flash also indicates that the total broadcast time of institutional spaces (broadcasts reserved by the CRC on open television channels for the broadcasting of content of State entities) during the first half of 2022 was 144 hours per month, a figure lower than that observed in 2021 at 13 hours.
During the first half of 2022, 1,352 programs containing native, ethnic or creole languages were broadcast, reaching a total of 413 hours. This figure corresponds to 0.4% of the total programming broadcast on open television. So far in 2022, regional, local and national public channels broadcast programming with these dialects.
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