Mission
Televisió de Catalunya, S.A. (TVC) is the public television broadcaster of Catalonia. It was founded in 1983 with the mission of restoring the Catalan language and culture to their rightful place. Today it is Catalonia’s main communication medium and the TV network that is most watched by the country’s citizens.
TVC follows the model adopted by public broadcasting corporations elsewhere in Europe and its programming is firmly committed to social and democratic values, pluralism, and public service. TVC mirrors the diversity and special traits of Catalan society, but it is also open to the wider world. It seeks quality and innovation and strongly differentiates its output from that of other networks. At the same time, it does everything to ensure that its programs reach as many viewers as possible. Over the years, the network has won widespread international recognition for the quality of its programs.
TVC is located in Sant Joan Despí near Barcelona on a 4.5 hectare site. There are four main buildings with a total floor area of 34,000 m2. With a staff of nearly 2,000, TVC is a large producer of TV content. Its in-house production covers a wide range of genres (news programs, documentaries, sports programs, fiction, entertainment, etc.), providing close to 60% of its broadcasting. But TVC also co-produces with private companies and has contributed to creating a thriving audiovisual industry in Catalonia.
Funding for the network is mixed – 52% comes from public sources while the remaining 48% is provided by advertising income, sponsorship, merchandising, and sales. A “Contract-Program” with the Catalan government periodically establishes the amount of public funding for the network based on the various public service functions by TVC.
TVC leads Catalonia in the migration to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT). All the network’s channels are broadcast in both DTT and analogue formats. TVC is also pioneering interactive applications that allow viewers to access a wide range of complementary services.
Right from the start, TVC has committed itself to being present on the web. CCRTV Interactiva manages the various portals and web sites, which have become a great favorite with users seeking information in Catalan on the Internet and since December 2004, through the web portal www.tv3.cat, viewers can access 3alacarta, a service enabling the user to watch at any time on site all the programmes with Internet rights of broadcasting, as well as all live programmes with rights held by all of Televisió de Catalunya channels, namely TV3, 33, 3/24, Super3, 300 and TV3CAT. The programmes are sent over broadband connection links (ADSL and cable). This service overcomes geographical barriers giving viewers a new way of watching television from anywhere in the world and at any time of the day.
Televisió de Catalunya’s mission is to offer all the citizens of Catalonia quality and efficient public service broadcasting, committed to ethical and democratic principles while promoting the Catalan language and culture. Efficiency will be foremost in the management of this production and broadcasting service, while striving for maximum public acceptance.
One of Televisió de Catalunya’s main objectives is to help consolidate and expand the use of the Catalan language, culture and identity, and disseminate knowledge of Catalan culture abroad, while reflecting the diversity of contemporary society.
Televisió de Catalunya must work to reinforce the presence of Catalan audiovisual media throughout all Catalan-speaking territories. It must foster development in social and economic fields and work closely with the educational system. It must promote the development of the Catalan audiovisual industry and of audiovisual productions in Catalan. It must also provide an impetus for content employing new technologies and kinds of public communication such as DTT, Internet, and mobile telephones.
All of these functions must be performed while being a reference for quality and innovation.
TVC follows the model adopted by public broadcasting corporations elsewhere in Europe and its programming is firmly committed to social and democratic values, pluralism, and public service. TVC mirrors the diversity and special traits of Catalan society, but it is also open to the wider world. It seeks quality and innovation and strongly differentiates its output from that of other networks. At the same time, it does everything to ensure that its programs reach as many viewers as possible. Over the years, the network has won widespread international recognition for the quality of its programs.
TVC is located in Sant Joan Despí near Barcelona on a 4.5 hectare site. There are four main buildings with a total floor area of 34,000 m2. With a staff of nearly 2,000, TVC is a large producer of TV content. Its in-house production covers a wide range of genres (news programs, documentaries, sports programs, fiction, entertainment, etc.), providing close to 60% of its broadcasting. But TVC also co-produces with private companies and has contributed to creating a thriving audiovisual industry in Catalonia.
Funding for the network is mixed – 52% comes from public sources while the remaining 48% is provided by advertising income, sponsorship, merchandising, and sales. A “Contract-Program” with the Catalan government periodically establishes the amount of public funding for the network based on the various public service functions by TVC.
TVC leads Catalonia in the migration to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT). All the network’s channels are broadcast in both DTT and analogue formats. TVC is also pioneering interactive applications that allow viewers to access a wide range of complementary services.
Right from the start, TVC has committed itself to being present on the web. CCRTV Interactiva manages the various portals and web sites, which have become a great favorite with users seeking information in Catalan on the Internet and since December 2004, through the web portal www.tv3.cat, viewers can access 3alacarta, a service enabling the user to watch at any time on site all the programmes with Internet rights of broadcasting, as well as all live programmes with rights held by all of Televisió de Catalunya channels, namely TV3, 33, 3/24, Super3, 300 and TV3CAT. The programmes are sent over broadband connection links (ADSL and cable). This service overcomes geographical barriers giving viewers a new way of watching television from anywhere in the world and at any time of the day.
Mission
Televisió de Catalunya’s mission is to offer all the citizens of Catalonia quality and efficient public service broadcasting, committed to ethical and democratic principles while promoting the Catalan language and culture. Efficiency will be foremost in the management of this production and broadcasting service, while striving for maximum public acceptance.
One of Televisió de Catalunya’s main objectives is to help consolidate and expand the use of the Catalan language, culture and identity, and disseminate knowledge of Catalan culture abroad, while reflecting the diversity of contemporary society.
Televisió de Catalunya must work to reinforce the presence of Catalan audiovisual media throughout all Catalan-speaking territories. It must foster development in social and economic fields and work closely with the educational system. It must promote the development of the Catalan audiovisual industry and of audiovisual productions in Catalan. It must also provide an impetus for content employing new technologies and kinds of public communication such as DTT, Internet, and mobile telephones.
All of these functions must be performed while being a reference for quality and innovation.
TVC Channels:
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Televisió de Catalunya currently has six channels. On DTT, Super3 shares the frequency with 300. -
TV3
This is the main, generalist channel targeted at majority and family audiences. Its programs are very varied and it has a strong news orientation. The channel began broadcasting in September 1983. It has been Catalonia’s top ratings leader on many occasions since then.
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33
Created in September 1988, this channel offers programs that either complement or provide an alternative to those on TV3 and caters to more specialized audiences. It is strongly oriented towards documentaries, educational and cultural programs. Channel 33 also experiments with new audiovisual languages and formats.
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Super3
This is the multiplatform children's channel aimed at children of up to 14 years of age. It was created in October 2009, and seeks to focus on three core areas: presence and participation of the "Súpers" (i.e., children members of the Super3 Club); own-production programmes; and series and films, both animation films and live-action films. It broadcasts on DTT from 6am to 9:30pm.
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3/24
3/24 is a round-the-clock news channel in Catalan. This channel was created in September 2003 specially for DTT, although right now it can be seen on TVC’s analogue broadcasts.
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TV3CAT
TV3CAT is the TVC channel that can be seen outside Catalonia. It was launched in June 2009 and it features own-production content from all the TVC channels, taking TV3’s programming as a point of reference. It is broadcast on DTT, mobile telephone, telephone line, cable, open satellite and on the Internet. TV3CAT takes over form TVCi, TVC’s international channel created in September 1995.
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300
300 is an all-fiction channel and can only be seen on DTT. Created in November 2005, it transmits from 9:30pm to 6:00am and features series and films.
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