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Radio Televisión Madrid S.A. (RTVM) is the public broadcaster of the
Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities and 50 provinces of Spain, provinces of Spain. It is located at the heart of the Iberian Peninsula and Meseta Central, Central Plateau (); its capital and largest munici ...
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History

The Ente Público Radio Televisión Madrid was created by means of a 1984 law, during the government of
Joaquín Leguina Joaquín Leguina Herrán (born 5 May 1941) is a Spanish politician and writer. A former member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from which he was expelled in 2022 over strong differences with Pedro Sánchez, he became the first Pr ...
, with the endorsement of all parliamentary forces. The Onda Madrid radio station began its broadcast on 18 February 1985.
Telemadrid Telemadrid is a public television station in the Community of Madrid, Spain, the flagship channel of the regional public broadcaster Radio Televisión Madrid (RTVM). It began its broadcast on 2 May 1989. History First years Telemadrid was cr ...
began its broadcast on 2 May 1989. In 2015, the regional government of
Cristina Cifuentes María Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas (born 1 July 1964) is a former Spanish politician of the People's Party. She was the President of the Community of Madrid from 24 June 2015 to her 25 April 2018 resignation. From 16 January 2012 to 13 April 201 ...
lined up a plan to transform the ente público into a
sociedad anónima The abbreviation S.A. or SA designates a type of limited company in certain countries, most of which have a Romance languages, Romance language as their official language and operate a derivative of the 1804, Napoleonic, civil law (legal syste ...
. The ''sociedad anónima'' Radio Televisión Madrid was thus created in 2016 by means of a law passed by the
Assembly of Madrid The Assembly of Madrid or Madrid Assembly () is the Unicameralism, unicameral autonomous legislature of the Autonomous Community of Madrid since the approval of the Madrid Charter of Autonomy in 1983. It is elected every four years during the S ...
in December 2015, and the S.A. assumed full control over the regional broadcasting services on 17 March 2017, inheriting the assets of the Ente Público as well as Telemadrid and Onda Madrid, transferred by means of a merging by absorption.


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* {{Authority Control Publicly funded broadcasters Mass media companies of Spain Television networks in Spain Administration of the Community of Madrid Mass media in the Community of Madrid Companies based in the Community of Madrid FORTA