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The reuse of archive footage is usual in television productions to complete or contextualize a story, to develop a biography or to cover anniversaries. Other times it is used when there are no current images related to the story or just to fill the schedule grid. However, not all archive materials can be reused; contractual rights, intellectual property and individuals’ fundamental rights must be preserved. The lack of awareness of these standards and restrictions can create problems. Pictures from the Internet have become another common audiovisual source, but due to their special characteristics, they must be used very carefully.

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Reputation, credibility, and accountability are the cornerstones of governing public service media in order to sustain and increase its legitimacy in society. To achieve this objective the management policies of public service media must be maintained and enhanced according to their mission. It is also necessary to develop strategies to improve the communication of the social value of pubic broadcasting in the media ecosystem. On this basis, this paper discusses the need for and challenges of stabilizing assessment indicators for public broadcasters’ news services.

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In Spain the media is organized in three levels: national, autonomic and local. The autonomic or regional television system is in its majority public, and its primary functions are linked to the political dynamics of each particular region. This article sets out a comparative analysis of the television newscasts with the aim of creating an index to determinate their degree of quality. To do so, four Spanish regional channels were analyzed: the Canary Islands’ Radio Televisión Canaria (RTVC), the Balearic Islands’ Televisió de les Illes Balears (IB3), Castile and León’s Castilla y León Televisión (CyLTV) and Navarre’s Navarra Televisión (NaTV). With the data obtained, we developed an indicator for political representation (R) and an indicator for the value of news frames (E). The combination of both indicators allows detecting anomalous behaviors when representing political parties. Our results show that there is a positive over-representation of political parties in those regions where these parties do not hold a parliamentary majority. Nonetheless, in these cases, the index shows a more appropriate value.