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This paper takes as its object of study the production of Spanish feature films by Netflix. The main objectives are the analysis of Netflix's film production and marketing strategies in the Spanish market and the identification of the platform's relationships with Spanish production companies and television in the production or co-production of original content. The results highlight the integration of Netflix in the systematized dynamics of production and commercial exploitation of successful Spanish cinema. Netflix respects its legal obligations, but also takes advantage of a protectionist system for European culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Main telecommunication companies in Argentina have had transnational shareholders since the 1990's and have achieved a very high level of concentration and growth due to national state laws. Telefónica Argentina is one of the most important companies that has been favoured by different governments ensuring a great business development and a dominant market position. This paper presents a critical analysis of the public communication policies in Argentina between 1989 and 2021 using Telefónica as case study, under the political economy perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present research aims to understand how Venezuelan media sector has changed since the implementation of the new media policy in 2000. This is a review of the media structure in the late 90 and compared with the current. This work looks to identify the changes generated in media by the new communication policies. These changes are linked to a diversification of ownership, but especially to an unprecedented growth in the public and community media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The newspapers of the Basque Country had not yet made fully aware of the importance of media in the fight against terrorism until 1996. From that year ETA began a sustained campaign of attacks to politicians and the media shows a serious change in their press coverage. The Basque press starts a new media strategy which is consolidated in 1997 and finally implemented during 1998. In these two years the media tried to "humanize" the information published about the attacks of ETA. Although the newspapers began to react journalistically to the killings in the 1996-1998 period, we can observe that the information coverage was very different depending on who the victims were. This text is based on a research funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Reference CSO2010-19855). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 2002 and 2007, the Government of Euskadi designed and implemented a set of communication policies aimed at introducing DTT in its territory and that led to the terrestrial television map which would face the analogical switch-off. This article focuses on the description and analysis of regional policies that defined this new map. Political analysis is not limited to description, but suggests interpretative keys to understanding the Goverment of Vitoria-Gasteiz's decissions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to offer an overall view of the state of research in the field of local television in Spain, which is in the middle of the digital transition. It also suggests the main areas that should make up the research agenda in this field, taking the form of five spheres of reflection: the structure of the local television sector; communication policies; local television content and services in the context of digitalization; reception and the audience for local digital television; and political communication in the context of television digitalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years there has been a considerable increase in the number of institutional crises caused by movements opposed to the realisation of certain public projects: the firing range in the Bárdenas Reales, the Madrid-Valencia motorway, the transfer of water from the Ebro river, the Ordunte wind farm, the installation of incinerators, the Basque "Y", etc. What all of these projects have in common is that they are public works developed by the government institutions, as well as being the object of strong opposition from citizens in the form of ecologist groups, political parties and citizens' coordinators. Besides, in each project the Administration and the opposition groups have generated such a volume of news that the mass media have become stages and actors in the process. How, then, should a communication policy be drawn up that is capable of overcoming media and popular pressure so that the project can be developed? This article approaches this phenomenon on the basis of analysing the process that led to the construction of a garbage incinerator in Bizkaia, known as the Zabalgarbi case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to line out the importance of media policies today through a case study. We pay special attention to media laws for that reason, particularly the rules that limit media ownership. The making of the radio mogul Clear Channel Communications is a case study. This group took advantage of the 1996 Telecommunication Act, which virtually eliminated the radio ownership cap in the United States. This is a clear example of how media laws can draw the limits to media companies, allowing them to concentrate or not, and that way agreeing to or fighting for the decrease in pluralism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]