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About XTVL
What it is
The Xarxa de Televisions Locals (Local Television Network, or XTVL) is a structure for arranging, coordinating and cooperating with audio-visual media, especially community television stations, with the following objectives:
- To strengthen the local media value chain in the spheres of news content, programmes and services, placing them within reach of the public.
- To implement all available technology to make possible a broader distribution of this content and these services.
- To back up these policies with the technical advice, training, promotion, operation and innovation which local resources alone cannot provide.
XTVL was set up in 1999 as a joint scheme between the Barcelona provincial authority and the federation for the legalisation of local television stations in Catalonia (which then changed its name to Televisions Locals de Catalunya, or TLC for short), and has worked since then to support Catalan community television with the aim of helping to consolidate the sector and build up its viability.
Since the year 2004 XTVL has been managed by the Xarxa Audiovisual Local (local audiovisual network, or XAL), a public company set up by the Barcelona provincial authority which is also responsible for the XN news content service and the digital newspaper lamalla.cat.
What it offers
One of XTVL's main fields of action is producing and co-producing programmes together with its associated community television stations and/or independent Catalan production companies, as well as distributing these programmes through and among the aforesaid television organisations. The aim is for the provision of this content to help television stations to enrich and fill up their programme schedules.
The range of content offered by XTVL places educational, entertainment, news and/or cultural programmes within reach of television stations, governed by the following criteria: content of local interest, public service programmes and technical and artistic quality. You can look at the full range of programmes on offer.
The associated community television stations can make use of two different systems for programmes:
Syndicated programmes for broadcasting at any time: A general range of content resulting from a joint editorial decision, considered to be of public interest, concentrating on educational, entertainment, news and/or cultural programmes, which the television stations can use and broadcast according to their own programme schedule interests.
Syndicated programmes for simultaneous broadcast: A range of news content and programmes resulting from a joint editorial decision, considered to be of public interest, which the stations undertake to guarantee a first simultaneous broadcast. The time slots for these programmes are limited to the following times:
• 14:15 - 14:45, Monday to Friday
• 19:00 – 20:00, Monday to Friday
• 21:30 – 22:00, every day
• 23:00 – 01:00, Monday to Friday
• 15:00 – 17:00, Saturday and Sunday
• 22:00 – 00:30, Saturday and Sunday
These programmes are broadcast by TV Badalona, Canal Terrassa Vallès, m1tv, VOTV-Vallès Oriental Televisió, Vallès Visió, Canal Blau – Maricel TV, Penedès TV, El 9 TV, Canal Reus TV, TAC12 , TV Girona, Lleida TV (only weekend)