UTECA denounces the damage of large platforms to society: “They will only change when they see their advertising income reduced”31 October 2025 [+] The conference “Advertising in the digital jungle: opportunities, challenges and risks” of UTECA has been a denunciation of the practices of ...
UTECA and AERC sue Meta for unfair competition28 October 2024 [+] The group of television and advertising companies of Atresmedia, Mediaset and TRECE, members of the Union of Open Commercial Televisions (UTECA), and the...
Mediaset returns to the UTECA employer association8 May 2024 [+] The Board of Directors of the Union of Open Commercial Televisions (UTECA) has today unanimously approved the reincorporation of Mediaset into the employers' association...
UTECA demands the regulation of influencers with more than 100,000 followers17 January 2024 [+] The Union of Open Commercial Televisions (UTECA) has agreed with the CNMC and the AUC on the need for the...
Eduardo Olano, re-elected president of UTECA until 20269 June 2023 [+] The Board of Directors of the Union of Open Commercial Televisions (UTECA) has agreed in its meeting this Thursday to re-elect Eduardo...
91.4% of Spaniards consider that free television is a good of general interest21 November 2022 [+] According to the UTECA 2022 barometer, carried out again in collaboration with the consulting firms Barlovento Comunicación and Deloitte, for 91.4% of ...
The CNMC recognizes RTVE the possibility of exploiting the Qatar World Cup in advertising7 November 2022 [+] Despite the protest of Mediaset and UTECA, the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) recognizes RTVE the possibility of...
Cani Fernández (CNMC) advocates that agents competing for similar audiences have similar obligations13 October 2022 [+] About thirty speakers from the main Spanish media, supervisory organizations such as the CNMC, company executives and communication experts...
18 European countries come together to save DTT as we know it1 July 2022 [+] 57 broadcast industry associations and companies from 18 European countries have come together to make a “Call to Europe”...
Eduardo Olano is again elected president of UTECA unanimously16 December 2021 [+] The General Assembly of the Union of Open Commercial Televisions (UTECA) has agreed to the re-election of Eduardo Olano as president. The agreement is...
Lights and shadows of the draft General Law on Audiovisual Communication3 December 2021 [+] After the green light by the Council of Ministers last Tuesday of the draft General Law on Audiovisual Communication, there is no unanimity in ...
The Government advocates increasing surveillance of digital platforms28 October 2021 [+] At the conference “Journalism, Technology and Business, a necessary alliance in the face of the impact of fake news” organized by UTECA, the Secretary of State...
UTECA urges the Government to apply the Audiovisual Communication Law to influencers15 February 2021 [+] A CNMC study of 657 videos detects a large part of the lack of identification of advertising and other content that can...
Free-to-air television closes a historic 2020 with almost 4 hours of daily consumption despite the advertising collapse29 December 2020 [+] For the president of UTECA, Eduardo Olano, “in the midst of the very serious health and economic situation that we are experiencing, we close a historic year that...
UTECA expresses its disappointment in the Draft General Audiovisual Law25 November 2020 [+] Private companies urge the Government to implement complete regulation that equalizes the obligations of all operators. The Union of Open Commercial Televisions...
87% of Spaniards consider that free television is a good of general interest23 June 2020 [+] For the president of UTECA, Eduardo Olano, he highlights that the I Barometer on the social perception of Free-to-air Television “endorses the leadership...
UTECA launches brand image with the motto “faithful to society”4 June 2020 [+] The new image reflects its adaptation to social changes through a series of more agile and visual elements. The Union of...
UTECA requests urgent aid from the Government in the face of the drastic drop in advertising23 March 2020 [+] Despite a historic increase in television audiences, the drop in television advertising exceeds 45% since the declaration of the State...
The president of UTECA asks the platforms for “responsibility towards the society in which they operate”2 March 2020 [+] “Two television groups have paid 500 million in taxes in the last 5 years, how much have you paid in Spain?” Eduardo asked...
UTECA demands that the new Government put an end to regulatory asymmetries23 January 2020 [+] The Union of Free-to-air Commercial Televisions hopes that the Executive will equalize the obligations between traditional free-to-air televisions and new operators...
Emilio Lliteras replaces Andrés Armas in the general direction of UTECA11 October 2019 [+] The Board of Directors of UTECA has appreciated the dedication, rigor and management capacity of Andrés Armas over the last six years. The Board...
Mediaset abandons UTECA and opens a schism in the private television employers' association15 March 2019 [+] Mediaset requests its departure from the Union of Open Commercial Televisions (UTECA), of which it is a founding member along with Atresmedia, due to disagreements...
'UTECA 20 years: living history of television', an essential report to understand the evolution of the medium in Spain10 January 2019 [+] UTECA and Deloitte analyze in a report the influence of macroeconomic and sociocultural factors, regulatory evolution or technological changes, which have transformed...
UTECA modifies its statutes including the sole membership requirement19 June 2018 [+] In practice, this change in the statutes would mean the expulsion of television stations such as DKiss, which a year ago was sponsored by the Spanish Association of ...
Free-to-air television and its pivotal role in the economy, society and culture22 November 2017 [+] During the Annual UTECA Conference, Deloitte Spain presents the report 'Open Television. Contribution to Spanish society. Role of television in...
The Government will open a public consultation on the second digital dividend22 November 2017 [+] The Vice President of the Government, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría at the opening of the Annual Conference of the Union of Open Commercial Televisions (UTECA)...
For free-to-air television as a universal, accessible and free service11 July 2017 [+] Open Television presents the Report prepared by Deloitte on 'Free-to-air Television. Contribution to Spanish society. Backbone role of free-to-air television...
Five DTT operators create the Spanish Association of Private Digital Terrestrial Televisions13 March 2017 [+] 13 TV, DKiss, Real Madrid TV, Net TV and Veo Televisión group together to defend their interests outside the UTECA employers' association. To the ...
