RT Journal Article T1 Public Television in Andean America A1 Romero Rodríguez, Luis Miguel A1 Valdez López, Orlando Esteban A1 Hernando Gómez, Ángel AB This paper analyzes and describes public television in Andean America through thehistorical, hermeneutic, and non-participating observation method, carrying out a criticalreview of the literature, legal provisions, and official websites. The research reveals theappearance and precariousness of Andean-American public television, its financing, andparticular forms of administration. Twenty-four stations were identified as havingevidence of public ownership, of which only eight are close to the principle of publicservice TV. There is little evidence of the existence of public service television becauseof the political-ideological control of the public media by the various governments,especially by populist regimes. Also, public television in the Andean region suffers fromthe cultural contamination of banal commercial content and infotainment. PB Routledge SN 1469-9729 SN 1469-9729 (electrónico) YR 2021 FD 2021-02 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19572 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/19572 LA eng NO Romero Rodríguez, L. M., Valdez López, O. E., & Hernando Gómez, Á. (2021). Public Television in Andean America. Media History, 1–19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2021.1885360 DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva RD 31 may 2026