The Finger

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"La nueva Ley de Medios, establece que las empresas pueden tener hasta 24 licencias de televisión por cable y 10 de las denominadas "abiertas". El Grupo Clarín es el único que todavía no comenzó a regularizar su situación. Con más de 240 sistemas de cable, 9 radios AM, 1 FM y 4 canales de TV abierta, Clarín representa posee un lugar de poder que va en desmedro de la posibilidad de que nuevas voces puedan participar de la comunicación." - Link

Other sources put their licenses at 300 in total. Admittedly, I'm slightly confused.



As far as I know, you don't need a license to start a newspaper. The Ley de Medios doesn't regulate newspapers either.

So 240 cable systems means 240 different contracts currently ran by cablevision throughout the country?

TN, Channel 13 in Ba (repeated as other channels in other regions) and what other channels make up the four channels they own?

Personally i don't think any company should be a media provider as well as a media creator as that way when something on the internet competes with their tv package they may want to throttle the bandwidth to it. Hence why Network neutrality is very important but the media act doesn't seem to be about that?

From forums about the internet in the States it seems that most regions have basically very little choice in cable operators.

What about the monopolies Telecom and Telefonica have? surely they would be better forcing them to open up the exchanges like was done in the uk so you can get your telephone/internet from anyone you want?

In my building we had the option of getting our "media" from Direct tv, Telecentro, Cablevision, Fibertel, Speedy, digital OTA and maybe a few other companies we didn't know about.