EITB
Owner | Department of Culture of the Basque Government |
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Launch date | 20 May 1982 |
Affiliation(s) | FORTA |
Official website | eitb.eus |
Euskal Irrati Telebista (Basque: [eus̺kal irat̪i t̪elebis̺t̪a]; transl. Basque Radio Television; acronym EITB, branded eitb) is the Basque Autonomous Community's public broadcast service, which broadcasts throughout the Basque Country. Its main brand is Euskal Telebista (ETB, Basque Television).
EITB is the leading
History
In
On 20 May 1982, the Basque Parliament unanimously approved the law that set up Euskal Irrati Telebista and on 23 November, the radio channel Euskadi Irratia started broadcasting. ETB, for its part, reached Basque households at midnight on 31 December 1982 with a presentation by the Basque Lehendakari Carlos Garaikoetxea and its programmes were regularized, starting from 16 February in the following year. At the time about 30 people worked in the ETB centre in Iurreta to provide programmes exclusively in Basque.
Several years later,
Following the implementation of
Its launch was postponed but ETB 4 subsequently launched officially on 29 October 2014.The EITB group also has five
Iberia Flight 610
On 19 February 1985, Iberia Flight 610, a Boeing 727 from Madrid to Bilbao, crashed onto an EITB antenna during approach to Bilbao Airport, causing the deaths of all 148 occupants inside the jet.[6]
Budget
The Basque community has increased its 2015 budget to 124.6 million euro up from 107.6 million the year before.[7]
Controversies
Both EITB and ETB have been at the center of some controversy over their content and audiovisual productions.
EiTB controversy (2017)
In 2017, the
Betizu (2022)
In 2022 a small controversy arose with
The singer and presenter Zuriñe Hidalgo was one of the many stars, where she has been since she was 11 years old. In the year 2022, as an adult, she recognized that it was not easy being so young on the programme and criticized the show and the ETB 1 channel for certain facts, declaring that "she suffered discrimination in situations ranging from the way she was dressed, to the way they treated her".[12]
Services
Television channels
- ETB 1 – Generalist channel in Basque language.
- ETB 2 – Generalist channel in Spanish language.
- ETB 3 – Youth channel in Basque language.
- ETB 4 – Bilingual entertainment channel in both Spanish and Basque.
- ETB Sat – Worldwide channel, both in Basque and Spanish languages.
- Canal Vasco – International channel aimed at Latin America, both in Basque and Spanish languages.
Radio stations
- Euskadi Irratia – News/Talk radio station in Basque language
- Radio Euskadi – News/Talk radio station in Spanish language
- Vitoriain Spanish language
- Gaztea – Music radio station in the Basque language aimed at the youth
- EITB Musika – Cultural and soft music radio station in Basque and Spanish
References
- ^ "A voice from outside of town: Radio Euskadi, the voice of the Basque underground". Radio Netherlands Archives. 27 February 1997. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "Autorizan a ETB a crear dos nuevos canales TDT". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). 11 July 2007. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "Las emisiones de ETB-3 han comenzado con las palabras del Lehendakari". EITB (in Spanish). 10 October 2008. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
- ^ "ETB pondrá en marcha un tercer canal de TDT y establecerá las bases de un cuarto en 2008 DEIA". Deia.com (in Spanish). 9 November 2007.[dead link]
- ^ "ETB-4 será un canal deportivo". Deia.com (in Spanish). 24 February 2010. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- ^ Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Commission. [Report] (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 April 2010.
- ^ "El presupuesto de EiTB para 2015 será de 124,6 millones de euros, un 2,3% más que este año". Europa Press (in Spanish). 21 October 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ "Los protagonistas de la polémica de EiTB y sus frases sobre los españoles". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 6 March 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ "Polémica por la emisión de un vídeo en EITB que tilda de "fachas", "paletos", "chonis", "atrasados" e "ignorantes" a los españoles". www.publico.es. 4 March 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ "Polémica por un programa de ETB que presenta a los españoles como "paletos" y "fachas"". Expansión.com (in Spanish). 4 March 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- ^ Ferreira, Maialen (6 December 2022). "Zuriñe Hidalgo, an adolescence under the spotlight: "It took me a while to be aware of the violence I was receiving". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 January 2023.
External links
- Official website (in Basque)
- Official website (in Spanish)
- Official website (in French)