An enthusiastic team of fifteen people enables RojoyNegroTV, to broadcast the second Tuesday of each month live on Channel 33 in Madrid, an area promoted by the union CGT (anarcho-syndicalist)

RojoyNegroTV (Red and Black TV) wants not only to be the voice of the CGT, but also “a space of critical debate.”

by Jordi Navarro We’re ready.. Everyone knows what to do, when and how. Despite the hustle and stress of the last minutes before the live broadcast, we dont lose our good humor. They are almost fifteen people-more than half women- who since January this year, make RojoyNegroTV (RNTV) possible, every second Tuesday of the month, live on Channel 33, and also streamed from Madrid on the website, rojoynegrotv. org. The professionalism of the team is added to by the motivation of our ‘amateur’ spirit. “The core technical work is done by four or five people. Some come from the TV Castilla-La Mancha, (the sound engineer and producer), who defend public television in La Mancha… ” explains Mark Ferrero, project coordinator of RNTV. RNTV is the voice of the CGT trade union, but aims to be more things, as illustrated by Ferrero: “We’d like to become a point of confluence of the labor and anarchist movement, and a space to encourage critical thinking and break the wall of silence surrounding the official media … ”

In fact, most of the project partners RNTV are not affiliated with the union. “The audiovisual project CGT is an open project,” summarizes the coordinator of the channel.



The studio belongs to Channel 33, “a local television of Madrid, which hosts a wide variety, from priests to anarcho-syndicalists”

“The seed has been planted”

In each program RNTV tries a different theme: corruption, repression, manipulation of the media, among others. In the case of repression, the program featured, among others, the presence of Rodrigo Lanza, ‘Alfons’, Laura Gómez and Pablo Hasel.

Each of these people alone could fill the program explaining their experience. However, their presence is not common on television. “We’re labelled ‘counter’, ‘alternative’, ‘militant’ … I think that in fact we are the media. The general media rely on banks, we rely on a trade union organization, others are cooperative…

Ferrero concludes that “the difference is the content. An open mode of journalism without fear, without hiding information. “

Other Madrid media

Today in Madrid we’re in the golden age, relatively, of media for social transformation, but that’s not synonymous with ‘easy’. The proliferation of newspapers, radio and television that promote critical thinking and assemblyism is a reality.

In the case of television, besides the aforementioned RNTV there is Tele-K. And in the press, Diagonal stands as a reference after its tenth year of existence, but is now followed by a trail of publications as diverse as Voces de Pradillo (local newspaper of Móstoles barrio) Madrid15m (publication of assemblies emerged four years ago, following the movement of the Indignants), the cooperative La Marea, Mongolia, and the openly anarchist Todo por hacer,.. which can be found in the most unexpected corners of the capital of the Spanish kingdom.

Of course, the media have their representation radio, such as the veteran Radio Almenaran (Beacon)and most recently, also post-15M- Agora Sol Radio. “You could say that right now we are in a sweet moment with regard to alternative or free media, although it is also a very difficult time. If the RNTV project failed for any reason, things would carry on…

At the moment, we have already planted the seed, “reflects Ferrero. Right now this seed is still germinating, anarcho television will next broadcast on 12 May at 9 pm.

RojoyNegroTV no vol ser només la veu de la CGT, si no també “un espai per fonamentar el debat crític”.