Even Spanish TV feels the pain
State broadcaster RTVE warns that a 20-percent reduction in funding means an end to big-budget original programming and more repeats.
Nick Lyne has lived in Madrid for the last twenty years.
During that time he's worked as a freelance as well as for the EFE news agency, the Foreign Trade Institute, Reuters, and El País, setting up their English language edition with the International Herald Tribune. He's also set up a number of English language publications, and was launch editor for the first Time Out guide.
State broadcaster RTVE warns that a 20-percent reduction in funding means an end to big-budget original programming and more repeats.
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