Televisión Canaria and Cape Verde strengthen ties within the scope of the XVI AIL Summit

As part of the XVI Summit of the Latin American Information Alliance (AIL), which will take place in the Canary Islands from 12 to 14 June, Televisão Canaria will sign a collaboration agreement with Cabo Verde Broadcast for the live transmission of the TVC signal in one of Cape Verde's Public Television channels.

According to the agreement, the Canary Islands' autonomous television will transfer the live image via streaming to Cabo Verde Broadcast, the public company responsible for implementing DTT in the African country. A new step in the alliance between the two Macaronesian regions, which will take place on June 12th during the AIL Summit in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. An annual meeting of public and private television from Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States and Spain, which is taking place for the first time on the European continent and which also includes the participation of communication and television agencies from China and Africa, including Cape Verde Broadcast.

Three years strengthening ties with the Macaronesian archipelago

The Canary Islands and Cape Verde archipelagos thus renew a commitment to collaboration that began more than two years ago, on November 19, 2021, with the signing of the cooperation agreement for the exchange of audiovisual content between Radio Televisión Canaria and Radio Televisão de Cape Green. Since then, the two public bodies have collaborated in the exchange of audiovisual content, such as news, reports or documentaries that promote rapprochement between two geographically close but culturally distant regions.

Furthermore, a joint working network was developed between the two public television channels through the International Coach Training Program managed by the Canary Islands Technological Institute and financed by the General Directorate of Economic Affairs with Africa. A training program that began in October 2022 with the visit of five journalists from Cape Verde Television to the RadioTelevisión Canaria Production Centers in Tenerife. For 15 days, Cape Verdean journalists Heder Savy Carvalho, Luis Da Veiga Lopes, Alcides Semedo Moreno, Ariana María Ramos Vaz and Deolinda Rodríguez Delgado Freire worked side by side in RTVC's writing, image and systems departments .

Months later, in March 2023, it was the turn of a team from Televisão Canaria to travel to the capital of Cape Verde, on the island of Santiago, to continue the transfer of information and knowledge between the two Macaronesian regions. Writer Raquel Guillán, producer Dunia Marichal and cameraman Lorenzo Saavedra delved into the bowels of Cape Verdean Radiotelevision for ten days.

From this collaboration came 'Laços Desconhecidos', a report prepared jointly by the two televisions, which addresses the similarities and curiosities of the two territories.

Almost three years later, the signing of this new agreement with the company Cabo Verde Broadcast reinforces the commitment of both regions to promoting knowledge of both cultures and the transmission of quality audiovisual content through Digital Terrestrial Television.