RTVE Canary Islands, awarded with the Gold Medal of the University of La Laguna

The University of La Laguna (Ull) has delivered to RTVE Canary Islands the gold medal of the institution "for being a privileged witness of the history of the Canary Islands" and example "of the commitment to rigorous information, culture and public service."

Francisca González Santana, Director of the RTVE Production Center in The Islands, has collected the gold medal from the rector of the university, Francisco García Rodríguez, in an act held in the University Paraninfo. The director of Production Center of RTVE in the Canary Islands, which celebrated its 60 years of broadcasting in the archipelago a few months ago, highlighted the strength of the public service provided by RTVE in the islands, whose file literally corresponds to the collective memory of the archipelago.

Beyond its director impact on citizens, the ULL has highlighted the educational and informative work carried out by the RTVE professionals on the islands in collaboration With the University itself. In addition, its commitment to the Technological modernization and the quality content production, which has contributed to cohesive a fragmented territory such as the Canarian and project it nationally and internationally.

In your thanks speech, González He recalled that "who tells the story, is also part of it," and how hundreds of Canaries and the Canary Islands met and recognized for decades through the images and audios of TVE and RNE, at some times when "it was not traveling so easily between islands and not everyone had enough resources to do so."

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