In the long term of Rosa María Mateo as sole provisional administrator of RTVE, red lights have come on, such as the figures for the 2019 financial year, which ended with a deficit of 29.6 million euros for the public corporation. "We need a bigger budget", "we need more financing" ... The message of the journalist turned manager is constant during her appearance in the Senate before the mixed parliamentary control commission.

The numbers are pressing and Mateo's mandate continues sine die , so it is better to heal in health. The moment does not seem the ideal to go to the Government with requests for financial aid, but the journalist is cornered by numbers that do not match. " It was a mistake to withdraw the advertising, " the administrator concluded, in response to a question from Vox, a formation surprised by its coincidence with Mateo regarding the financing model.

"The income is not enough to cover the expenses," said the journalist, contrary to the system implemented by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, for which the ads disappeared in 2010. Economically, the data to which EL MUNDO has had access provide little predictions. flattering. Last January, the corporation estimated that the deficit this year would reach 60 million, a projection that is becoming more nuanced but that continues today to more than 50 million . In fact, at the end of the first quarter, there was a deviation in expenses of up to 67 million, as exposed to this newspaper sources in the chain.

In other words, in the absence of the full year, a deficit is expected in any case, and greater than that of 2019. The red color is already distinguished and this has been stated by the popular parliamentary group on a couple of occasions within their questions ("The forecast is between 50 and 60 million euros"), an account that in no case has been contested by Mateo.

Dismissed before the relay?

There is an added problem. As stated in the regulations of the corporation, "a worsening of the budgeted result with a deviation equal to or greater than 10% of the compensation approved for the provision of public service" is one of the reasons for the dismissal of the members of the council of administration, functions assumed today by Mateo in a plenipotentiary manner. The budget item for RTVE in 2019 was 376 million euros, so the tenth part would be 37.6 million, a barrier that, everything indicates, is going to be exceeded.

Before Mateo's arrival, RTVE had chained three balance exercises , black numbers that disappeared in 2019. "We have been with the budget frozen since 2018. The 2018 budget did not include the necessary resources to assume two major increases in spending, spending supervening, and alien to our management: the change in the VAT treatment on public television and the salary reviews agreed by the government. This has had an impact of 59.4 million euros on our accounts. "

RTVE advises Netflix

Another point to which the administrator has drawn attention is the "reduction of the income of telecommunications and television operators", a point that this newspaper has already drawn attention to, given a drop in income in these private media , which also contribute to public financing, mainly sustained by the heading of the General State Budgets.

The appearing party recommended that the transposition of the new European audiovisual directive "should contemplate that contributions be made by all operators that perform services, including platforms that did not exist in 2009". The hit is heard at the Netflix, HBO or Amazon Prime Video headquarters.

In 2010, our budget was 1,200 million euros (...) Today we have less than 1,000 million ", Mateo recalled, for which it is" impossible to limit programming spending ", although he assures that there has been" containment "in the chain." We have an option: turn off the television so you don't spend more, "the administrator has launched.

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