Codony guarantees the OCB that all IB3 programming will remain in Catalan.

PalmThe general director of IB3, Josep Codony, pledged to the president of the Obra Cultural Balear (OCB), Antoni Llabrés, that all of the organization's programming will continue to be in Catalan. According to the organization in a statement, during a meeting with the director, Llabrés emphasized the need for public media outlets to ensure compliance with the language model provided for in the Statute of Autonomy and the Normalization Law. He also emphasized the need for public media outlets to ensure compliance with the language model established in the Statute of Autonomy and the Normalization Law. He also emphasized the need for the law regulating IB3's activities, which establishes that "the vehicular language of all programming is Catalan." Codony, according to the OCB, has pledged that there will be no changes to the public organization's language model.

This commitment comes weeks after the OCB, as well as left-wing parties, warned that the regional radio and television network would broadcast films in Spanish. Codony explained to Llabrés that this is a one-off incident due to the expiration of the broadcasting rights for these films, which are not yet dubbed in Catalan and are provided by TV3.

The president of the OCB has asked IB3 to make an effort to ensure this situation doesn't happen again and has proposed that these films be rescheduled once a Catalan version is available. During the meeting, the possibility of increasing the television channel's children's programming and introducing more cultural content was also discussed.

Quality Catalan

Llabrés also insisted on the need to ensure the quality of the language used in public media and the advisability of having the support of Galmic, a UIB working group that advises media outlets on linguistic matters. The president referred to the need to increase the presence of language advisors in the public entity, workers who are currently outsourced and in "precarious conditions," lamented the OCB. Furthermore, the president of the cultural entity emphasized the importance of journalists, especially in pieces recorded on the street for news programs, using Catalan in their interviews. The same should be done by panelists on the programs.

The OCB has asked Codony to ensure that advertisements are made in Catalan, especially some that are broadcast in that language on other media outlets, but which, in an "incomprehensible" way, use Spanish in IB3. On the other hand, the president of the OCB referred to the need for the public entity to move toward digitalization as a way to achieve greater audience impact, especially among younger audiences.

Llabrés also insisted on the need to continue working to promote, as required by the regional radio and television law, the creation of a common audiovisual space among all Catalan-speaking territories. In this way, he maintained, the co-production and mutual reception of audiovisual content broadcast in Catalan could be enhanced and cultural exchange could be fostered. Likewise, the president of the OCB offered to maintain and even expand collaborations with IB3, which currently materialize through the broadcast of the Cultural Night organized by the cultural entity each year and to support the organization in the Aferrada gathering of digital creators in Catalan.