La Tecla Asustada

Por Sebastián Lacunza Herald staff - El socio minoritario de Clarín busca compradores estadounidenses y mexicanos Telefónica de España está a un paso de tener que vender su negocio audiovisual en la Argentina, encabezado por el canal de más audiencia, Telefe, dado que la Autoridad Federal de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual considera que existe una incompatibilidad insalvable con lo establecido en la ley de medios sancionada en 2009. El Herald pudo saber que los argumentos esgrimidos por Telefónica, que maneja en la Argentina telefonía básica y celular a través de la marca Movistar, no satisfacen la exigencias de la AFSCA y que la empresa española ya fue informada al respecto, por lo que se vería forzada a encontrar comprador en el próximo semestre para su principal canal, Telefe, y las emisoras de TV en Mar del Plata, Rosario, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Tucumán, Salta, Neuquén y Bahia Blanca. La ley de medios, sancionada en 2009 y declarada constitucional por la Corte Suprem...

A January 17 letter shows the Clarín Group had issued new submissions to AFSCA regarding the adjustment of Cablevisión’s channel grid. By Sebastián Lacunza Herald Staff More details about Vila-Manzano, Cablevisión revealed by AFSCA sources Telefónica de España is on the verge of having to sell its audiovisual holdings in Argentina, which include Telefe, the TV channel with the highest ratings, given that the Autoridad Federal de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual (Federal Audiovisual Communications Services Authority, AFSCA) has deemed that there is an insurmountable incompatibility between its holdings and the regulations laid out by the 2009 Media Law. The Herald has been made aware that the arguments put forward by Telefónica in defence of its current holdings, which include landline and cellular telephone services through its Movistar brand, do not comply with AFSCA’s requirements and that the Spanish company has already been informed. As such, Telefóni...

‘Excesses’ pardoned in the name of a greater good - human rights Sunday, January 5, 2014 In this 1984 photo, Argentina''s former President Raúl Alfonsín, right, receives the official report on the missing from human rights activist Ernesto Sábato in Buenos Aires. By Sebastián Lacunza and Luciana Bertoia Herald Staff The journey of justice following the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the last Argentine dictatorship seemed to leave behind the idea of the two demons and, moreover, a penchant for denial. Although a return to impunity seems unlikely in Argentina, the past few years have brought a certain relativization of the past to the public debate. The muddy ground of politics and the endorsement of political parties by human rights organizations play a key role in helping these dark ideas return to centre stage. Argentine democracy had reached a welcome consensus: state terrorism must be brought to trial and the guilty parties must go to jail; the vi...