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Petro Ordered Mintic to Open the Tender for Channel 1 without the Concession Being Terminated.
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17-08-25.-The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced that he asked his Minister of Communications to start the procedures for the revocation of the license to the television channel Canal1. During a broadcast the Colombian president said "that this government has to be builder of...
Gustavo Petro orders to tender Channel 1 despite concession in force until 2037 rcorrearaamirez... Sat, 16/08/2025 - 15:45 National debate by presidential order on Channel 1.
Canal Logo 1. Photo: taken from Canal's website 1. Several journalists, media leaders and opposition politicians have already raised voices of protest against President Petro's order to open a new tender for Channel 1. During his speech on Friday night, Petro told his ICT minister, Julián Molina, that he has “the order to start the tender for Channel 1. A new way to manage television. It is not of the government, but not of the economic power. D…
The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, ordered the Ministry of Communication to initiate the procedure to revoke the license of the television media Canal 1, despite having it in force until 2037, in a case that resembles what happened in Venezuela 2007 with RCTV, when Hugo Chávez decided not to renew his air signal. In his instruction, Petro told the minister Julián Molina that the end of his order is a "new way of handling television." Accord…
The head of state gave this instruction in the council of ministers of this 15th August. The concessionary company denounces expropriation.
During the council of ministers on Friday, August 15, President Gustavo Petro ordered the minister of the ICTs, Julián Molina, to start the bidding of Channel 1, although the current concession of Plural Communications SAS is in effect until May 2037. The president justified his decision by proposing a “new way of handling television” that must be in the hands of the “youth, people of art and culture”, moving it away from both the government and…
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