Corporació Audiovisual de la Comunitat Valenciana (CACVSA)
Corporació Audiovisual de la Comunitat Valenciana (CACVSA), formerly Valencian Media Corporation (CVMC), is a public media company serving the Valencia region, which operates the À Punt television and radio channels.
Media assets
Television: À Punt (HD)
Radio: À Punt FM
State Media Matrix Typology
Ownership and governance
CVMC was established as a public service for radio and television broadcasting by Law No. 6 of 2016 and is owned by the Generalitat (Valencia’s autonomous government).
The Valencia regional government passed Law 2/2024 on June 27, 2024, to merge CVMC and Societat Anònima de Mitjans de Comunicació de la Comunitat Valenciana (SAMC), the state-owned company created by the Generalitat Valenciana in 2016 to act as the managing company of À Punt Mèdia (the regional broadcaster), into a new entity known as the Corporació Audiovisual de la Comunitat Valenciana, S.A. (CACVSA).
This new entity, which was officially constituted by the Consell on January 21, 2025, functions as a public limited company under the control of the Generalitat’s presidency. Its board of directors, now with eight members, is appointed by Parliament and the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FVMP), a change that has raised concerns about the company’s independence. Previously, civil society, experts, and the broadcaster’s staff had the right to appoint their own representatives to the governing body of the CVMC.
Source of funding and budget
The Valencia regional government’s budget is CVMC’s main source of funding. According to the law, CVMC receives funding equal to 0.3% to 0.6% of the Valencia regional government’s overall budget. In October 2023, the Valencia government approved the region’s budget for 2024, with CVMC receiving the same amount as in 2023, namely €84m. Of this, €73.2m was earmarked for Societat Anònima de Mitjans de Comunicació (SAMC), the entity that manages the À Punt broadcasters and pays most of the staff. Details on the budget for 2025-2026 for the newly created CACVSA have not been publicly announced. CVMC also generates funding from advertising sales, which reached a new high of over €3m in 2023.
Editorial independence
The law establishing CVMC and an internal regulatory statute are supposed to ensure the broadcaster’s editorial independence. CVMC has a Citizens’ Council that serves as the broadcaster’s programming and content advisory board. The council aids CVMC’s Governing Council and general management in assessing the corporation’s programming strategies and services and communicates audience feedback to the station’s management. The Council welcomes complaints, suggestions, and proposals from the audience.
In the past there was no evidence of editorial interference by the regional government at CVMC (now CACVSA). On the contrary, various experts say that CVMC proved to be editorially independent. This was due in large part to the independence of the board that governs CVMC’s activity.
However, since the election of Carlos Mazón as president of the Valencia region in 2023, the regional government has increased its efforts to influence CVMC. The Popular Party (PP), with the support of the right-wing Vox party, has been criticized for appointing political commissioners at À Punt to control public broadcasters, censor the information they provide, and restrict their independence.
The new law passed in spring 2024 is seen by independent experts as a way to give politicians significant control over the broadcaster’s editorial decision-making. These concerns were heightened on November 20, 2024, when the director-general of the Societat Anònima de Mitjans de Comunicació (SAMC), Alfred Costa, resigned after it was revealed that Carlos Mazón had met with journalist Maribel Vilaplana to offer her the position of director of the new entity before it was even created. Vilaplana reportedly declined the offer. Following Costa’s resignation, the President of the Governing Council, Miquel Francés i Domènec, was appointed as the interim director-general.
Given these developments, we have reclassified CACVSA under the State-Controlled (SC) category in our State Media Matrix typology, denoting the highest level of government control.
August 2025