Colombia’s entertainment industry is up in arms over a government decree which has reduced the 70% national production quota for primetime TV to 20% due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Its beleaguered producers, actors, screenwriters, crew members and ancillary services will face even greater challenges if demand for homegrown productions begin to fall. Independent producers org Asocinde, led by Cmo producer-vp Ana Piñeres, sent an appeal to the government while actors guild Aca has sued against the decree.
Some suspect that the TV sector pressured the government to pass this ruling so that they could fill their programming with less expensive canned imports.
However, the two major free-to-air channels, Rcn and Caracol, which held a duopoly for decades until the establishment of a third channel, Canal 1, in 2017, have stuck to the original quotas. Both are prolific producers of national content and have produced enough hours in their 22 years of existence to...
Its beleaguered producers, actors, screenwriters, crew members and ancillary services will face even greater challenges if demand for homegrown productions begin to fall. Independent producers org Asocinde, led by Cmo producer-vp Ana Piñeres, sent an appeal to the government while actors guild Aca has sued against the decree.
Some suspect that the TV sector pressured the government to pass this ruling so that they could fill their programming with less expensive canned imports.
However, the two major free-to-air channels, Rcn and Caracol, which held a duopoly for decades until the establishment of a third channel, Canal 1, in 2017, have stuck to the original quotas. Both are prolific producers of national content and have produced enough hours in their 22 years of existence to...
- 5/7/2020
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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