The SNTP reported that three stations in Zulia; another three in Táchira and one in Carabobo were forced to close transmissions by Conatel. So far in 2022, according to the account of the union, there are 86 radio stations closed in the country
The National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) denounced this Saturday, October 29, the closure of six stations in three states of the country during the afternoon of Friday 28, which brings the count made to 86 by this organization on the forced removal of radio stations from the air so far in 2022.
Via Twitter, the SNTP indicated that in Ciudad Ojeda, in Zulia, the radio stations Melodica 92.3 FM, Mágica 93.3 FM and Ke Buena 101.1 FM were closed on instructions from Conatel. Yet the NGO Public Space had denounced this eventuality caused by Conatel’s decision.
While in Táchira, the stations Platinium 88.1 FM, Innovation Panamericana Stereo 98.3 FM and Alegría 104.9 FM were ordered off the air; the three located in the Pan-American municipality of the Andean entity.
There was also information about the alleged “administrative failure” in the request to renew the concession for the radio station Éxitos 99.1 FM in Valencia, Carabobo state.
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#SNTPAlert | Three radio stations were closed in #Ojeda city by instructions from Conatel: Melodica 92.3 FM (1 year on the air), Mágica 93.3 FM (15 years on the air) and Ke Buena 101.1 FM (6 years on the air).
There are 26 closed stations in #zulia during 2022.— SNTP (@sntpvenezuela) October 29, 2022
#SNTPAlert | East #28Oct in the afternoon, Conatel ordered the closure of Éxitos 99.1 FM in #Valencia condition #Carabobo.
The agency alleged an ‘administrative failure’ in the application for the renewal of the concession.
It is the fourth station closed in this entity during 2022.— SNTP (@sntpvenezuela) October 29, 2022
#SNTPAlert | East #28Oct Conatel also ordered the closure of the stations Platinium 88.1FM, Innovación Panamericana Stereo 98.3FM and Alegría 104.9FM, in the Panamericano municipality, in the state #Tachira.
In the entity there are 13 stations closed so far this year.
— SNTP (@sntpvenezuela) October 29, 2022
The NGO Espacio Público issued a statement in which he rejects, along with 37 other organizations that support the pronouncement, the “opaque and arbitrary” management by Conatel, which in recent months has generated the “massive” suspension of radio stations in several states of the country.
With the provisions, some by legal means and others by informal means, Venezuelans are deprived of spaces that disseminate content. In many cases, Conatel closes outlets that have been running for years.
«Conatel’s logic causes serious damage, which is the indefinite suspension of transmissions to specify, according to the entity, the status update. Going out of business is not strictly necessary to bring the regulation up to date; especially if the responsibility for this legal vacuum is attributable to the State for not responding with due diligence, both to new applications and to demands for updating the concessions by the broadcasters”, says the text.
Therefore, they ask the State to adjust the laws and practices regarding human rights so that freedom of expression is fully guaranteed; that there is transparency on the part of Conatel and that “the principles of plurality, diversity and free circulation of content” can be protected and guaranteed.
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