HORADADA TV CLOSED TO CUT MUNICIPAL DEBT

As austerity measures continue to bite across the region the latest high profile closure was announced In Pilar de la Horadada on Tuesday by the mayor Fidel Ros with the winding down of the Ayuntamiento’s own TV channel Horadada TV.

The television service has operated in the town for twelve years during which time it has filmed thousands of hours of materiel covering all of the municipality’s most important events. Mayor Ros said that he has to save four million euros before the end of the current financial year and it is with a great deal of regret that the Television Station is just one of a number of casualties of the government’s cost cutting policy.This decision was accompanied by the closure of the transmitting antenna, which was still operating under the old DTT system, and a refusal to address the replacement costs of unserviceable broadcast equipment.