Playz (stylised as playz) is an online service belonging to

Radiotelevisión Española The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, S.A. (; ), known as Radiotelevisión Española or RTVE, is the state-owned public corporation that assumed in 2007 the indirect management of the Spanish public radio and television service know ...

(RTVE), the Spanish public broadcaster, streaming free-to-air content for a young audience. It was launched on 30 October 2017.

History

Embedded within the RTVE webpage, Playz was launched on 30 October 2017, with the release of ''Colegas'', , ''

Dorien ''Dorien'' is a Spanish psychological thriller and horror web television series created by Kiko and Javier Prada starring Carolina Bang, Daniel Muriel, Macarena Gómez and Dafne Fernández. It was released from 2017 to 2018 on RTVE's playz. ...

'' and ''Inhibidos''. The launch was predated by the premiere of another original release on 11 September 2017, '' Si fueras tú'', a

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fiction series loosely adapting the New Zealand series ''Reservoir Hill'' which served to promote the kickstart of the platform.

Programming

The platform aims towards a young audience, from 15 to 35 years, intending to draw the interest from that demographics, with decreasing viewership figures in traditional television. Content includes original

webseries A web series (also known as a web show) is a series of scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the Internet, which first emerged in the late 1990s and became more prominent in the early 2000s. A single i ...

, interactive documentaries, fiction stories in a ''

podcast A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing ...

'' format, interactive cooking shows, a music and sport-centered section and a debate on current issues. ;Fiction

Awards and nominations

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Ondas Awards The Premios Ondas (Spanish: literally "wave awards", also known in English as the Ondas Awards or simply The Ondas) have been given since 1954 by Radio Barcelona, a subsidiary of Cadena SER, in recognition of professionals in the fields of radio ...

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References

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