Short answers, pulled from the story.
Radio Nacional de España, the earliest component of RTVE, was founded on the 19th of January 1937 in Salamanca as a propaganda tool for the Rebel faction during the Spanish Civil War. It was controlled by the State Delegation for Press and Propaganda under Vicente Gay Forner.
The first regular Televisión Española signal was broadcast on the 28th of October 1956 from the Paseo de la Habana in Madrid. At that time only roughly 600 television receivers existed in the city.
Since the RTVE Financing Act of 2009, the corporation is funded by subsidies from the General State Budget and a levy on private operators' gross revenue: 3.0% for private free-to-air channels, 1.5% for subscription channels, and 0.9% for telecom companies.
The Board of Directors has twelve members: eight chosen by Congress and four by the Senate, each requiring a two-thirds majority vote and serving non-renewable six-year mandates. Two of the Congress-appointed members must be proposed by RTVE's two main trade unions.
Radio Exterior de España reaches an audience of eighty million listeners, a figure surpassed globally only by the BBC and Vatican Radio. The service broadcasts in Spanish, French, Arabic, Ladino, Portuguese, Russian, and English.
RTVE did not participate in Eurovision 2026, ending sixty-five years of uninterrupted Spanish participation. The corporation cited the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation's permitted participation despite alleged government interference in preceding contests and the ongoing Israeli offensive in the Gaza war.