Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Government renewed today, in Praia, the concession contract for Radio and Television of Cape Verde (RTC), which aims to replace the current one in force since 2013, marking the beginning of a new cycle for national public media.
At an event that brought together government authorities, members of the RTC board of directors and numerous employees of the broadcaster, the president of the board of directors, Karine Craveiro Miranda, characterized the moment as a “milestone in the trajectory of national public media”.
“The contract we signed today reaffirms the public nature of the service we provide and reinforces the State’s commitment to the future of our public television and radio, the company’s sustainability, and financial compensation, at a time when the challenges of digital transformation, the imperatives of economic sustainability, and the demands of an increasingly educated and informed public are growing,” said the president.
The new contract, to be in force for the next 15 years, explicitly recognizes the importance of the digital era, covering traditional television and radio services, from the production, broadcast and dissemination of sound and audiovisual content through the online audiovisual offering, including on-demand services from various technological platforms.
According to the same source, it also aims to reach the diaspora community, aiming to affirm, value and defend the image and brand of Cape Verde in the four corners of the globe.
Innovation, Cape Verdean music, the official Portuguese language, and sports are strategic areas highlighted in the memorandum, which includes reserving programming for independent national production and diaspora content, fostering the local creative economy.
For the RTC’s CEO, the new contract also includes quotas for education, health, the environment, citizenship, and culture, as part of the RTC’s social mission. Periodic performance metrics are also introduced, aligned with international best practices.
Karine Miranda also highlighted the challenges of financial sustainability, editorial independence, talent retention, and technological acceleration, but stated that she trusts in the commitment and creativity of RTC professionals to overcome them.
The contract succeeds the previous one, signed in 2013 by representatives such as Lourenço Lopes and Alcindo Mota, for State Services, and Humberto Santos and Vítor Varela, for the RTC administration.
“The RTC is a heritage of the people of the islands and the diaspora, and before the Cape Verdeans, we celebrate this pact with the future,” he said, reaffirming the commitment to “truth, plurality, diversity, equality, inclusion, information, education, culture, and the well-being of Cape Verdeans,” he concluded.
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