Talk:Radio Nacional de España

Comments copied from Sonia's discussion page

Greetings Soniamcewan, Have just seen the extensive work you've been doing on the article - great stuff! Rather than plough in and make changes and/or add the following comments to the discussion page, I thought I would just try to negotiate a modification to the intro as it seems just a little bit clumsy. I've been comparing it with the version that was in place at 11:38, 3 April 2007, and I really reckon that v. is better, as it summarises the article nicely (which is of course the aim of a wiki intro.) Possibly your version is a more faithful translation of the orig. in Sp. (I really don't have time to check), but as is too often the case with translations, the result can be a bit stilted, which I think is what has happened to that opening para. Please take this as being constructive, and I look forward to your feedback. Regs. --Technopat 01:12, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your constructive comments and for taking the time to look at my translation. I agree that the intro probably is a bit clumsy, but as far as I remember I think it adds some essential information that the original lacked. I'm going to put a copy of these comments on the article's discussion page to remind me to revisit the intro when I'm feeling a little less tired and perhaps give others the opportunity to contribute to the discussion. I hope you don't mind, but please feel free to delete if you do.SoniaUK 01:30, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Just had a quick look - one thing that does sound clumsy is "indirect management". However, I'm keen to keep this in because I think this is similar to the BBC's "arms length" relationship with the British government, and quite an important concept in the public broadcasting model. There is a fuller explanation on the Spanish page es:Prestación de servicios públicos (España), which I'm hoping to incorporate in a translation of the RTVE page, and hopefully that will inspire me to improve the RNE intro.SoniaUK 01:36, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I've now had a tinker with the intro, but I'm going to hold fire on reinstating the comment that RNE was "founded in 1937", because it had an existence before then (I think as Radio Salamanca) and I need to research this further. Instead, I've stated in the section "Origins of RNE" that the station officially came into existence in 1937 because this seems to be the date from which it was either officially licenced as a public broadcaster or adopted by the nationalist rebels (or both).SoniaUK 03:23, 15 April 2007 (UTC)