Senator taking on Mexico's broadcast titans
MEXICO CITY -- Time and again legislators here vow to overhaul Mexico's outdated broadcasting law. They argue that the television industry is too concentrated, too powerful. Yet time and again they find themselves fighting a losing battle against the nation's TV duopoly. Two companies, networks Televisa and TV Azteca, dominate the airwaves and control production. According to Raul Trejo, a media expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, they own about 95% of the nation's commercial television stations. They are also the country's top two content producers. Curiously enough, Mexico's broadcasting law has undergone no major changes in 45 years. Senator Javier Corral, whose proposed revisions have been killed in Congress on numerous occasions, says it boggles the mind to think that the law looks the same as it did nearly half a century ago.
- 4/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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