Uneven coverage of the strike on public and private television

High monitoring of the strike in RTVE and the regional ones and low in the private ones.

La huelga general convocada por las centrales sindicales para el 29M ha tenido un seguimiento desigual en los medios públicos y privados del país. Monitoring of the general strike among public media workers reaches 75 percent participation, in a range that ranges from 80 percent monitoring on RTVE to 70 percent on regional radio and television stations, according to UGT.

In the case of RTVE, while the Corporation's management has estimated monitoring at 40.5% of the workers, the unions raise this figure to 80%. State public television has maintained informative programming and recorded programming.

In RTVE, monitoring has reached 95 percent in the Barcelona and Bilbao centers, both for RNE and TVE and the average for the territorial structure, while for the Torrespaña and Prado del Rey centers it is above 80 percent, according to UGT.

Mientras que Telemadrid has mostradp durantes las 24 horas de la jornada un bucle en el que advertían del parón en la programación debido a la huelga, en Canal Sur se interrumpía la programación entre las 0 y las 6 horas.

Por su parte, en la gallega CRTVG no han ido a trabajar alrededor del CRTVG (61%), viéndose alterada notablemente su parrilla. En la valenciana RTVV el paro se ha estimado en un 23.3%.

La huelga general ha tenido un amplio seguimiento en los medios de comunicación públicos catalanes, con una adhesión del 90% en TV3 y TVE y del 80% en BTV, sin tener en cuenta los servicios mínimos, según CC.OO.

In private companies, while in Antena 3 the support has been 8%, in Mediaset España, unemployment has reached 9.8%, and in PRISA Tv it has been around 29% support. However, the unions estimate the unemployment rate in private companies at between 35% and 45%.

It is noteworthy that, unlike other previous strikes, the Ministry of Industry has not established minimum services for private television stations, since the National Court established in a ruling last year that the activity carried out by these companies cannot be classified as “public service” and therefore the Government cannot establish minimum services.

Since the General Audiovisual Law repealed the Statute of Radio and Television, which provided that “radio and television broadcasting are essential public services whose ownership corresponds to the State” and the Private Television Law, which regulated indirect management by corporations, currently the television service would not fit into the concept of “public service.”

In the last general strike, held on September 29, 2010, Industry issued an order in which it imposed minimum services “strictly necessary to guarantee the provision of the essential service” of information and set them at “the production and broadcast of information programs at their usual hours, reducing their usual duration by 20%.” Likewise, a minimum percentage of 12% of the company's staff was established.

As for the radio, the strike day passed completely normally.