Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra, S.A. (RTVA) (; "Radio and Television of Andorra PLC") is the

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and

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broadcaster in the

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. It operates a television channel, ATV, and two radio stations, RNA and AM, all of which broadcast in

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History

The first commercial radio station to broadcast from Andorra was

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, which was active from 1939 to 1981. Public service broadcasting in the principality began on 26 October 1989 after the

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decided that a national broadcasting organisation should be set up. As a result, the Organisme de Ràdio i Televisió d’Andorra (ORTA) was formed and radio station Ràdio Nacional d'Andorra (RNA) began broadcasting in December 1990. ORTA was funded by the Andorran government.

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(ATV), Andorra's first television channel began in 1995. All programming on both RNA and ATV was produced by independent companies until 1997 when ORTA began producing all of its own programming. ORTA was replaced by the current organisation, Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra S.A. (RTVA), on 13 April 2000. RTVA took full control of both RNA and ATV. Like its predecessor, RTVA is also funded by the government. Advertising provides additional revenue. Its current director-general is Juande Mellado. RTVA has been an active member of the

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since 2002 and took part in the

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from 2004 to 2009 inclusive; however, in 2012 it was believed to be due to withdraw from the EBU because of financial problems. The broadcaster has to compete with TV and radio stations from both

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and

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whose transmissions can easily be picked up in the principality.

Services

Television

* ATV: The national television channel of Andorra.

Radio

* Ràdio Nacional d'Andorra (RNA): The national radio station of Andorra. *

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(AM): Music radio station Ràdio Andorra (1990-1991).png, 1990 to 1991 Logo Ràdio Andorra-ORTA (1990-1992).png, 1991 to 1992 Ràdio Andorra RNA (1991-1992).png, 1991 to 1992 RNA Ràdio Nacional Andorra (1993-1996).png, 1993 to 1996 Logo Ràdio Nacional d'Andorra (2000-2005).png, 1996 to 2005 Logotip RNA.jpg, 2005 to 2013 Logo Ràdio Nacional d'Andorra (2013).jpg, Since 2013 Andorra Música-RTVA (2013).png, Andorra Música logo (2013)

Internet

RTVA has had a web portal since November 2007. This was renewed in September 2013 to turn it into a multimedia service, under the name ''Andorra Difusió''.

Programming

ATV broadcasts a range of programming including sports, music, films and magazine shows as well as the daily children's strand '' Club Piolet''. The flagship news programme ''ATV Noticies'' is produced and broadcast three times a day, with bulletins at 13:45, 21:00 and prior to closedown. Regular live parliamentary coverage is also broadcast. ATV usually broadcasts between the hours of 07:30 and 23:45 each day with information pages displayed after closedown. RNA broadcasts mostly music although news bulletins air on the hour, every hour. The station broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week. ATV and RNA are streamed online for free on RTVA's website, although the ATV stream is sometimes replaced with a test card due to

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restrictions on some programming.

Logos and identities

Image:Old rtva logo.png, Former RTVA logo (early 2000s) File:Rtva.jpg, Logo used from 2005 to 2013

References

External links

Corporate site

Informatius.ad: news, weather and information site run by RTVA
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