"We are looking forward to bringing us projects like 'Altsatsu'

to broadcast on ETB," said the director of Basque public television

Eduardo Barinaga

on December 4

.

'Altsatsu', the four-part series in Basque that turns the attack against two civil guards into a

"bar brawl"

and presents the

agents as the inducers of the aggression

, constitutes for Basque television an example of the

"commitment to television fiction in Basque "

, as stated in the budget for 2021, which will rise to

almost 160 million euros

with a direct public contribution of 142.4 million euros.

Basque public television will increase

its resources

with

Andoni Aldekoa

in charge in 2021 despite the fact that, as recognized by the entity's budget project, the fall in advertising revenues has affected all its formats.

A

2.3% decrease in the advertising contracted by its television networks, 14% in radio and 24.9% in the internet

.

However, EiTB Media SAU, the new commercial name for Basque television since last November, will have 159.6 million euros and plans to

significantly increase the items for external hiring and personnel.

The expected increase in the chapter on

"work carried out by other companies"

will go from

40.3 million in 2020 to 42.7 million in 2021

.

One heading of these expenses, which also includes everything from make-up to translation or security, is dedicated to "commissioned and associated productions".

The EiTB forecast is to have

28.4 million euros

for the next 12 months, which will make Barinaga's wish possible.

The director of ETB will continue in his functions under the command of Andoni Aldekoa

, the new general director of the public entity proposed by the PNV and who had the support of the Socialist Party of Euskadi.

The ideological bias of ETB programs contracted to external producers was denounced last Friday by the PP and Ciudadanos parliamentarian

Luis Gordillo

.

"We demand that

ETB have to stop broadcasting content that undermines State institutions, that whitewash terrorism or that humiliate the victims,"

the also spokesperson for Citizens in Euskadi

told

the Minister of Culture

Bingen Zupiria

.

Gordillo, after the broadcast of the first chapter of 'Altsatsu', denounced from the Parliament platform that the series is "again before a broadcast of part in which the actions of the aggressors [the 8 condemned] are portrayed here as victims, while the real victims do not receive the same treatment or approach ".

Zupiria, former director of ETB, avoided commenting on the content of 'Altsatsu' because he had only seen the first chapter and limited himself to

recalling the pronouncements made by his predecessor

as spokesman for the Basque Government Josu Erkoreka on the aggression in this Navarrese municipality and the judicial procedure developed until the conviction of the 8 accused.

The Minister of Culture did make a

lukewarm criticism of the documentary 'Euskal Herria y Libertad'

in the Basque Parliament on October 30,

although he avoided acting to prevent its broadcast by ETB1 in the face of warnings about its content made by the MEP

Maite Pazagartundua

.

EiTB also foresees a

notable increase in its personnel expenses,

as the personnel chapter goes

from 41 million euros in 2020 to 65 million in 2021

.

The management led by Aldekoa announces forthcoming calls for public job offers in EiTB based on the "description of different professions" that the entity's management has already made and which will be contrasted during 2021 with "multidisciplinary tables" initially to later form part of collective bargaining with workers' representatives.

EiTB Media SAU expects to obtain income of

142.4 million from direct financing from Basque institutions, mainly from the Basque Government

.

Its new general director has already announced in the Basque Parliament that its first objective will be to consolidate the new integrated society to adapt it to the new challenges of generating multimedia content.

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