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The Ministry of Communications celebrated this Wednesday (7) two new contracts that authorize the opening of more radio streets in Minas Gerais: one educational and the other commercial.
Extracts from the agreements, which are valid for ten years, were published in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU).
The contracts were signed by the Minister of Communications, Frederico de Siqueira Filho, and by the president of the Fundacao Cultural de Conselheiro Pena, Aline Pereira de Vasconcelos Oliveira (educational radio), and by the managing partner of Sistema Noroeste de Comunicacao LTDA, Leandro Araujo Torres (private radio).
The educational radio will operate in the city of Resplendor and the commercial radio in Uba.
Contract signing is the last step for broadcasters to actually start operating. Before that, the processes initially passed through the Ministry of Communications itself, and later, through the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic and National Congress.
The Ministry of Communications is always working to make the largest possible number of commercial, educational and community radio stations possible in the country. Radio broadcasting is extremely important for the population to stay informed and have more and more options for culture, leisure, entertainment, and mainly, information and service provision, stated the Minister of Communications, Frederico de Siqueira Filho.
New bids
Soon, the Ministry should launch new tenders for private radio and TV concessions. The act represents a milestone for Brazilian broadcasting: for 15 years the department has not opened competitions for new commercial broadcasters.
The bidding processes were sent to the Federal Audit Court (TCU). Now, the Ministry awaits the bodys opinion to proceed with the publications.
20 bids were sent to the Court: ten for radios (FM) and ten for TVs, two radio stations and two TV stations for each region of Brazil.
The sending of bids ends a long process of hard work and studies by the minister and technicians from the Private Broadcasting Department, linked to the Broadcasting Secretariat (Serad) of the Ministry of Communications.
Due to the difficulty in developing an effective methodology for pricing grants, the Ministry has not released new notices since 2010. To resolve this issue, the ministry entered into a partnership with the University of Brasilia (UnB), through a Decentralized Execution Term (TED).
A team from the university, made up mainly of economists, developed a methodology capable of pricing the minimum value of a grant, using technical and reliable parameters, whose model is capable, based on consistent information, of arriving at the true cost of a broadcasting enterprise.
Text: ASCOM | Ministry of Communications * More information: press@mcom.gov.br | (61) 2027.6086 or (61) 2027.6628
