The news director for TVE (Televisión Española) Fran Llorente and the heads of the channel's Telediario 2 programme will be in Zurich tonight to receive the prize for the world's best television news bulletin awarded by the prestigious international media analysis academy, Media Tenor.

The prize puts TVE above other renowned TV channels like the UK's BBC, France's TF1, Italy's RAI and America's ABC News, CBS, Fox and NBC.

"It was a wonderful surprise," Llorente told the press, "because we were unaware that our work was being analysed in such detail and we're delighted to have been compared with so many other important TV news programmes and to have come out on top."

Llorente will be accompanied to the awards ceremony by Lorenzo Milá, who presented TD2 for four years, Pepa Bueno (pictured), the programme's current presenter and Esteve Crespo, the programme's editor.
 
TVE's news director was especially pleased with the way the progamme had been judged, looking at "depth and diversity of sources and topics" amongst other areas.

The "Media Tenor Global TV Awards" award prizes to the world's best TV news programmes on the basis of 13 criteria that have been established according to academic methodology developed at universities in New York, Berlin and Oxford.

The presence of women was also taken into account, the diversity of local topics, industry and business reports, the inclusion of reports dealing with health, education, the environment and democracy as well as topics not often dealth with in other media.

"Basically, the topics we report on reflect Spanish society and demonstrate that the public television channels belong to everyone in Spain, giving airtime to experts, society, the opposition parties, the economy, the environment, health, everything that people want to know about," said Llorente.

Llorente added that the prize underlines TVE's desire to "work hard to ensure that the people of Spain have the best possible understanding of an ever more complicated world."