La Autoridad Nacional De Televisión, ¿Una Agencia Estatal Independiente? (Colombia's National Television Authority: Can It Be Considered an Independent State Agency?)

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Spanish Abstract: Con el presente articulo se pretende identificar si la Autoridad Nacional de Television es o no una agencia estatal independiente del ejecutivo y si cuenta con las garantias institucionales de independencia para el ejercicio de sus funciones. Para lograr este cometido se reviso el diseno institucional que inspiro la reforma a la Constitucion de 1991, que suprimio el caracter constitucional que ostentaban en Colombia tanto el servicio publico de television como el organo encargado de su regulacion. Luego, se estudio el alcance de las normas legales que se expidieron en desarrollo de lo consagrado en la reforma constitucional de 2011, disposiciones que distribuyen las competencias de la extinta Comision Nacional de Television en diferentes organos, como es el caso de la recien creada Autoridad Nacional de Television (ANTV).English Abstract: This article seeks to determine whether Colombia’s National Television Authority is a state agency that is independent from the central government and whether it possesses the institutional guarantees to independently perform its functions. To accomplish this objective, this work looks at the institutional design that spurred the 1991 Constitution, which removed television as a public service as well as the state authority in charge of its regulation. This piece then studies the scope of statutes, laws and regulations that were issued following the 2011 Constitutional reform, which distributed the work of Colombia’s now extinct National Television Commission to different entities, such as the recently created National Television Authority.