José Pablo López Sánchez (born 15 May 1977) is a Spanish media executive. Since 22 February 2017, he serves as Director-General of

Radio Televisión Madrid Radio Televisión Madrid S.A. (RTVM) is the public broadcaster of the Community of Madrid. History The Ente Público Radio Televisión Madrid was created by means of a 1984 law, during the government of Joaquín Leguina, with the endorsement of a ...

(RTVM), the Madrid's regional public broadcasting network.

Biography

Born in

Sayalonga Sayalonga is a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. It belongs to the comarca of La Axarquía. The municipality is situated approximately 38 kilometres from the capital ...

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, on 15 May 1977, López earned a licentiate degree in journalism from the Universidad CEU San Pablo and a licentiate degree in law from the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...

. He worked and in La Sexta's legal department (2005–2010) and as Director-General of 13TV (2010–2016). Elected as prospective director-general of RTVM out of a shortlist of 36 candidates, his election was ratified in the Assembly of Madrid on 12 January 2017 with 99 votes in favour and 26 abstentions. The votes in favour came from the parliamentary groups of the PP,

PSOE The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Socialista Obrero Español ; PSOE ) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources: * * * * political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in gov ...

and

Ciudadanos Citizens ( es, link=no, Ciudadanos ; ca, link=no, Ciutadans ; eu, link=no, Hiritarrak; gl, link=no, Cidadáns; shortened as Cs—C's until January 2017), officially Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (''Ciudadanos–Partido de la Ciudadanía'') ...

, whereas Podemos abstained, criticising the lack of "transparency" during the process. He thus took office on 22 February 2017. In July 2020, he assumed as president of FORTA, the federation of Spanish regional public broadcasting networks.

References

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