Strengthening of public media

The ministry of information and communication technologies (mintic) began in 2020 with a historic investment for national and regional public channels that will be used for their strengthening and modernization. this represents an increase of 9% over the previous year. these resources are intended to strengthen the country's audiovisual sector and maintain the quality standard of colombian productions that has enjoyed great international recognition. faced with the issue of public television, the issuance of law 1978 of 2019 generates the conditions to strengthen and guarantee public media in the long term, as a fundamental element of democracy and preservation of the country's cultural identity. it does this by guaranteeing that annually the resources drawn will grow with inflation; 90% of these resources should be used for audiovisual production and strengthening of the medium. the remaining 10% can be used for operation. the maximum amount of resources that, since the creation of the fund for the development of television and contents (fontv) in 2012, were allocated to rtvc and regional television channels, was maintained as a base for calculating the resources that must be transferred to the channels. likewise, the average amount allocated to rtvc by the information and communications technology fund (fontic) for public radio broadcasting was maintained. these amounts, brought to their present value, were adjusted by the same percentage as the annual variation of the consumer price index (cpi).