Chilean Tv Essay

Once upon a time… an early Chilean TV

As Munizaga details, the first legal regulation of the Chilean television industry was approved in 1970 in spite of the few existing channels have been already operating for almost two decades. Indeed, the law No. 17,377 passed by the Congress in October, 1970, formalized what was previously operating de facto through rather administrative and executive decisions than actual legal regulations. However, whether it was administrative or legal, the organization of television reserved operations exclusively to the State and some specific universities, despite the –by then- ongoing pressures in order to allow private actors to participate in the novel industry (Munizaga, 1981).

The parliamentary debate was fierce due to the highly partisan context: The bill was introduced as a project when Eduardo Frei Montalva (Christian Democratic Party) was still in the office; the project started to be discussed close to the presidential elections on September 1970, and was finally approved when Salvador Allende (Socialist) was already elected. So, the broader political climate also painted the trajectory of the first law that regulates television in Chile. In Munizaga’s words, “the political dispute precluded a cultural reasoning” (Munizaga, 1981: 10). In other words, the

The second one is that modifies the ownership structure by creating the National Television (TVN), and finally launches the National Council of Television (CNTV) (Tironi & Sunkel, 1993). The idea of pluralism was shortened only to political communication and particularly regarding whose would have access to television. Consequently, the state and some universities were considered the players that could better guarantee these