“…Since then, the conservative party Partido Popular (PP) -governing with an absolute majority-has pushed through a highly contested reform of policies affecting public media in general and, as discussed further below, the Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (Spanish Broadcasting Corporation, RTVE) in particular. It should be noted that an earlier study on the 2012 level of pluralism in Spanish generalist television broadcasters' news content (before the reforms promulgated by the new conservative Government) showed that TVE was, at that time, the television network with the highest level of internal pluralism of content, whereas commercial television networks stood out for their contribution to external pluralism (Humanes, Montero, de Dios and López-Berini 2013).…”