The PSOE approves the introduction of Basque in the only Spanish channel of the ETB

The Socialist Party of the Basque Country, together with Podemos and the Basque nationalists,

has given a

to the management of Basque television controlled by the PNV so that the

.

The Euskal Irrati Telebista (EITB) group has

,

that use only this native language and two more channels that use both Basque and Spanish.

Until now, ETB2 was the only channel with content in Spanish.

The EiTB group is the

with funding from the Basque Government close to 150 million and an

compared to 38 euros for Galician television or 31 for Catalan television.

After forty years of activity, all the Basque political parties are promoting a

with continuous accusations towards the leadership due to the

which had also been denounced by the Basque Socialist Party until its incorporation into the Government of Urkullu in 2016.

The Basque socialists now support Basque television using the channel in Spanish to

.

The audience data between the two channels leaves no doubt about the preferences of the Basque viewers who make

day after day

.

The

while ETB1 (the

channel

) has achieved an audience of

the last month

.

ETB3, also in Basque and aimed at children, yields data of 0.3% while ETB4 (a container of old programs in Basque and in Spanish) is around 0.7%.

Those responsible for Basque television decided to broadcast

to increase their audience by a few tenths and maintain as star content the broadcasts of ball games and the drifter competition that fill the grills on weekends.

Despite the difference in the huge audiences between the Spanish channel and the Basque channel, Basque television allocates

annually

.

According to a report prepared in 2019 by Basque television itself

and only half of them were in favor of including content in Basque with subtitles on the Spanish channel.

Neither in the aforementioned report registered in the Basque Parliament nor in the parliamentary debate that approved this irruption of Euskera on the channel in Castilian was it proposed that the content on ETB1 should also be subtitled in Spanish.

Both PP and Ciudadanos and Vox questioned the agreement between Socialists, PNV and Podemos to promote this

on the only Basque television channel that until now used mostly Spanish.

Vox parliamentarian

of the measure adopted on a television indicated by the broadcast of a documentary that turned

of the disappearance of ETA without mention towards the victims.

After doing nothing to prevent its broadcast on Basque television, the Lehendakari Urkullu publicly acknowledged the ideological bias of its content by ignoring the almost 1,000 murders of the terrorist gang.

The documentary 'Basque Country and freedom, a long road to peace' was broadcast on ETB1 despite the fact that the Basque MEP

had publicly denounced its content and prepared a wide dossier with the misrepresentations used by its director to whitewash the criminal record of who was the head of ETA.

Neither Urkullu nor the Minister of Culture and Language Policy

on whom the EiTB depends, did anything to prevent its broadcast on Basque public television.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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