National Television Council (Chile)

National Television Council
Consejo Nacional de Televisión
Agency overview
Formed24 October 1970
JurisdictionNational
HeadquartersMar del Plata 2147
Providencia, Santiago
Annual budgetUS$21,030,236
CLP$9,684,519,000[1]
Agency executive
Parent agencyMinistry General Secretariat of Government
WebsiteCNTV official website
Council panel forum held in Iquique.

The National Television Council (Spanish: Consejo Nacional de Televisión or CNTV) is a Chilean government agency whose function is to oversee the operation of television services.

It was first created by Law 17377 on October 24, 1970.[2] Its existence is formalized in the Constitution of Chile, with its composition, organization, and powers defined in Law 18838 of 1989 and Law 19131 of 1992.[3] [4]

Since 2001, it has participated in creating the contents of CNTV Infantil, an educational channel for cable television.

  1. ^ Direccion de Presupuestos de Chile, Ministry of Finance (19 December 2019). Ley de presupuestos 2020 (PDF) (Report). Chile. p. 846. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  2. ^ Ley 17377: Television chilena (in Spanish), Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile, retrieved 2019-09-28
  3. ^ Ley 18838: Crea el Consejo Nacional de Televisión (in Spanish), Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile, retrieved 2019-09-28
  4. ^ Ley 19131: Modifica ley N° 18.838, sobre Consejo Nacional de Televisión (in Spanish), Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile, retrieved 2019-09-28