Who says that broadcasting is a young person's game? Certainly not in Spain where the new head of public broadcaster RTVE is a youthful 81-year-old.

Spain's Parliament has chosen Alberto Oliart (81) as the national public broadcaster Corporación RTVE's new president. Alberto Oliart is the country's former Defence Secretary.

The new president was chosen with a majority of two thirds of the votes formally needed but at the same time without the support of the minority parliamentary groups.

Alberto Oilart replaces Luis Fernández who resigned of his post several weeks ago.

RTVE faces some major challenges next year, not least cutting expenditure and also coping with a new rule which forbids RTVE's two major channels (La 1 and La 2) to broadcast any kind of advertising except for self-promotions of its own programmes.

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