CCMA - CCRTV Interactiva

Mission
tvc3.cat
catradio.cat
324.cat
esport3.cat
tv3alacarta
icatfm.cat
catclassica.cat
3xl.cat
super3.cat
clubdecuines.cat
TV3 Text
Social Networks
Cell phones
Multi-platform leisure

CCRTV INTERACTIVA is the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation company that creates and distributes the content generated by Televisió de Catalunya and Catalunya Ràdio for interactive media like the Internet, Teletext, mobile phones, PDAs, DTT, etc.

Its will is to keep CCMA at the forefront of the market for content in new media formats, and to contribute to promoting the language and culture of Catalonia.

Mission

Within the framework of CCMA's mission, to promote a high-quality, competitive and growing presence of the Corporation and its content on interactive distribution channels and existing and future networks. To innovate interactive content, services, technology, and business models for these new channels, thus contributing to the development of the Information and Knowledge Society.

The various portals and web sites managed by CCRTV Interactiva have become favorites with users seeking information on the Internet in Catalan, whether it be news www.324.cat, TV information and program videos www.tv3.cat, program schedules, content, and radio audio files at www.catradio.cat and www.icatfm.cat, sports www.esport3.cat, or just plain fun www.3xl.cat and www.super3.cat. Almost all of them rank high on lists of the most visited web sites in Catalonia and they have high viewer participation rates in games, chats and forums, SMS messages and multimedia, etc.

CCRTV Interactiva produces Televisió de Catalunya’s interactive services for DDT such as contests, opinion polls, programming, etc.

www.tv3.cat

This television portal provides detailed, regularly updated information on the programming of Televisió de Catalunya’s five channels, including an interactive programming schedule. It offers a wide variety of videos on demand (excerpts from TVC programs and material from other CCMA portals such as, www.telenoticies.cat, www.elsesport.net, etc.). There is also a space for viewers wishing to find out more about the network’s presenters (“Gent TVC”, or “TVC People”) and a virtual visit to TVC facilities, showing viewers the inner workings of the Catalan public television network (“3 i a dins”, or “Inside 3”).
www.catradio.cat

Portal for the Catalunya Ràdio broadcasting group, with detailed information on the four radio stations in the CCMA group. www.catradio.cat carries information on station program schedules, programs, and daily news from the group of broadcasters. Catalunya Ràdio, Catalunya Informació, Catalunya Música and iCat fm can be listened to live and audios can be downloaded of all items broadcast. There is also a podcasting system, allowing listeners to hear programs on portable MP3 players.
www.324.cat

Twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week information portal offering current news through interactive communication channels and from any point in the globe – Internet, Teletext, PDA, mobile telephones (SMS, MMS), Digital Terrestrial Television, and so on. 324.cat replaces the information portal www.telenoticies.cat / www.catalunyainformacio.cat (created in 2002), which was a point of reference for its quality and credibility on the Net.

The portal 324.cat favours in a very special way the audiovisual aspect of news items, which is complemented with materials elaborated by the newsrooms of Televisió de Catalunya and Catalunya Ràdio. In addition, it hosts a space for citizen journalism, “Elmeu324”, where users can post their own news, whether they are in video or audio format, or whether they are pictures, or simple text.

The portal is the third pillar of the continuous information channels of the CCMA (Catalan Broadcasting Corporation), together with 3/24 and Catalunya Informació.
www.esport3.cat

An interactive platform of sports content and services of the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation (Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals, CCMA).

It offers information on all current sports news in multimedia format, using Televisió de Catalunya’s videos and Catalunya Ràdio’s audios. It also offers Internet broadcast of the UEFA football Champions League, the World Championship of Formula 1, and the basketball European League. It is complemented with photo galleries, fixtures agenda and calendar, classifications and results... ranging from football to the more minority competitions. .

It is also a useful tool for those that practice sport, with updated figures offered by Catalonia’s leading sports entities and associations

The portal pays special attention to interactivity with users and offers the possibility of participating through forums, chats, surveys, competitions or SMS.
www.tv3alacarta.cat

TV3alacarta is the free service of video-on-demand offered by Televisió de Catalunya. It enables the viewing of all the programmes with Internet broadcasting rights at any time and online, as well as all the live programmes with rights from all of Televisió de Catalunya’s channels, namely TV3, 33, 3/24, Super3, TV3CAT and 3XL.

This service, created in December 2004, makes all the programmes available immediately after their broadcast on television, or a few hours later if they were live, and it retrieves previous programmes from a catalogue that progressively increases its archival content. The TV3alacarta service allows access to more than 150,000 video recordings. The offer grows by the day with the weekly incorporation of some 750 new pieces from current broadcasts as well as those from Televisió de Catalunya’s archives. The whole content of TV3alacarta is free since 1 November 2008 and subtitled contents increase by the day.

Through TV3’s video podcasts service, users can subscribe free to a selection of programmes, and in this way receive them automatically on their computer or mobile device – telephone, iPod, and so on.

Finally, with the idea of reaching the maximum possible number of users, TV3 is also present on the new non-computer supports that offer connection to the Internet. Thus TV3alacarta has reached a number of models of TV sets connected to the Internet, as well as the new generation of intelligent phones, the iPad and the PS3 console.
www.icatfm.cat

iCat fm is a new concept of a music radio station that features complete integration of radio and Internet. On iCat fm, FM broadcasts are combined with a synchronized Internet portal providing further information on what is being broadcast at any given moment. www.icatfm.cat is synchronized with radio broadcasts, showing in real time what is being played on the radio and providing additional information that enriches traditional radio broadcasts. It also provides access to the five iCat FM stations that are only broadcast over the Internet: TotCat, iCatjazz, MusiCatles, Mediterràdio and Xahrazad, and has an audio file of all the items played. The web site for the iCat FM station opens up new possibilities, allowing program directors and presenters to publish content in real time. Last but not least, it provides participation tools and virtual communities allowing listeners to take part in live programs: polls, forums, chats, competitions, etc.
www.catmusica.cat

Catalunya Música is a radio channel specialising in classical and contemporary music. It programmes musical selections as well as sections specialising in instrumental and choral music; ancient and contemporary music; jazz, cinema and opera music; and that of other lyrical genres, as well as musical debates and dissemination programmes aimed at schools. Catalunya Música is well known for its live recordings and broadcasts of concerts, musical cycles and festivals, and finds itself in a privileged position in the Catalan musical world.

Among its offer, Catclàssica.cat should be singled out, a channel of classical music featuring Catalan composers and interpreters while offering all the relevant information about what is being broadcast in order to round off the musical experience. In addition, there is a news section, a diary with the classical music events in Catalonia and systems for classical music lovers to share their passion.
www.3xl.cat

The space on the Net for 3XL, the channel for the young, fosters interactivity and suggests a new way of forming part of a social network. Here you will be able to watch the series and the content that the channel broadcasts on television, apart from exclusive premieres and extended versions of some videos.

The 3XL community users can gather around the official pages of the series and the programmes of the channel and can also take part in the content. 3XL seeks to become an innovative format of an online game called Món 3XL (3XL World), that integrates television, social networks and street action. Users shall have the opportunity of acting as characters in a collective fiction that will be shown on a number of platforms and will evolve according to the way the whole community acts.

Moreover, members of the community can integrate themselves into other spaces of the 2.0 universe, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tuenti or reproduction services of music lists.
www.super3.cat

Portal (and TV program) designed for children.
It offers a wide variety of contents encouraging online participation: games, videos, contests, E-mail, special promotions, postcards, forums, moderated chats (promoting contact among Club members, giving them the chance to direct their questions to celebrities, etc.), and other sections for Club members only.

The portal takes great pains to ensure content quality and user security and protection.
www.clubdecuines.cat
Clubdecuines.cat is the reference portal for those who love cooking. It contains in excess of 6,000 recipes from the cookery programmes of TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio and even those created by the users! A good part of the recipes of the portal are included in video versions from spaces such as "Cuines", “Al vostre gust”, "Caçadors de bolets", "La cuina de l’Isma", “Karakia” or "Tàpias variades". Clubdecuines even retrieves videos and recipes from TV3’s first cookery programme, Jaume Pastallé’s "Bona cuina".

Users are the true architects of Clubdecuines. Their recipes, comments and votes furnish this portal with content – a portal that works as a true gourmet community on the Internet. Each registered user has his or her own space where favourite content, recipes, channels and users can be stored.
TV3 TEXT

Televisió de Catalunya's (channels TV3, 33, K3, and 3/24) teletext service. Noteworthy items include: the dynamic program guide; the "What's on now?" service, which gives details on the program being broadcast and the upcoming one; the news section; and entertainment content (weekly horoscope). It also includes a wide range of sections such as Weather, Business, Lotteries, Airports and Culture, among others. In addition, it has a large sports section with news, final scores, league tables, football breaking news, which automatically updates the results of football league games as they happen.
PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
www.tv3.cat/alaxarxa

"El meu 324" (My 324) and "Jo hi vaig ser" (I Was There) are areas for participation within the 324 and esport3.cat portals, where users can contribute their own news and content in varying formats. They are an example of what has been known as "citizen journalism".

The CCMA participates in the social networks seeing them as new ways of dissemination and interactivity: tens of TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio programmes already have groups and pages on Facebook, where new formats are experimented with in order to offer added value to the audience. Viewers can compare themselves with fictional characters through tests; declare themselves fans of the programmes; share videos and images; or comment the sports transmissions on the Internet in real time thanks to the integration with Facebook Connect. Twitter users can follow the latest news at twitters section on 324 and esport3.cat. Through YouTube, TV3 makes its videos available to a much wider audience, and thanks to Flickr, some programmes can offer extra visual material.

Widgets are also an essential part in this revolution of the online formats. Embeddables for blogs, home pages, and desktops show the latest news on the CCMA blogs, and allow you to listen to Catalunya Ràdio programmes or keep up with the recipes from the Club de Cuines (Cuisine Club) via Twitter.
CELL PHONES
www.tv3.cat/mobils/

CCRTV Interactiva handles the participation channels by mobile for the programmes of TVC and Catalunya Ràdio, while offering a wide scope of services – access to mobile versions of the leading portals; news alerts; participation in various programmes; and customisation of terminals through downloading of melodies, colour backgrounds, games, and so on. It also participates in the broadcasting projects for mobile telephony of TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio, and in various pioneering interactive applications in our country, such as the TV3 mobile recorder, which enables programming from a terminal the recording of TV3 programmes at the Media Centre.


	Mission tvc3.cat catradio.cat 324.cat esport3.cat tv3alacarta icatfm.cat catclassica.cat 3xl.cat super3.cat clubdecuines.cat TV3 Text Social Networks Cell phones Multi-platform leisure CCRTV INTERACTIVA is the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation company that creates and distributes the content generated by Televisió de Catalunya and Catalunya Ràdio for interactive media like the Internet, Teletext, mobile phones, PDAs, DTT, etc. Its will is to keep CCMA at the forefront of the market for content in new media formats, and to contribute to promoting the language and culture of Catalonia. Mission Within the framework of CCMA's mission, to promote a high-quality, competitive and growing presence of the Corporation and its content on interactive distribution channels and existing and future networks. To innovate interactive content, services, technology, and business models for these new channels, thus contributing to the development of the Information and Knowledge Society. The various portals and web sites managed by CCRTV Interactiva have become favorites with users seeking information on the Internet in Catalan, whether it be news www.324.cat, TV information and program videos www.tv3.cat, program schedules, content, and radio audio files at www.catradio.cat and www.icatfm.cat, sports www.esport3.cat, or just plain fun www.3xl.cat and www.super3.cat. Almost all of them rank high on lists of the most visited web sites in Catalonia and they have high viewer participation rates in games, chats and forums, SMS messages and multimedia, etc. CCRTV Interactiva produces Televisió de Catalunya’s interactive services for DDT such as contests, opinion polls, programming, etc. www.tv3.cat This television portal provides detailed, regularly updated information on the programming of Televisió de Catalunya’s five channels, including an interactive programming schedule. It offers a wide variety of videos on demand (excerpts from TVC programs and material from other CCMA portals such as, www.telenoticies.cat, www.elsesport.net, etc.). There is also a space for viewers wishing to find out more about the network’s presenters (“Gent TVC”, or “TVC People”) and a virtual visit to TVC facilities, showing viewers the inner workings of the Catalan public television network (“3 i a dins”, or “Inside 3”). www.catradio.cat Portal for the Catalunya Ràdio broadcasting group, with detailed information on the four radio stations in the CCMA group. www.catradio.cat carries information on station program schedules, programs, and daily news from the group of broadcasters. Catalunya Ràdio, Catalunya Informació, Catalunya Música and iCat fm can be listened to live and audios can be downloaded of all items broadcast. There is also a podcasting system, allowing listeners to hear programs on portable MP3 players. www.324.cat Twenty-four-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week information portal offering current news through interactive communication channels and from any point in the globe – Internet, Teletext, PDA, mobile telephones (SMS, MMS), Digital Terrestrial Television, and so on. 324.cat replaces the information portal www.telenoticies.cat / www.catalunyainformacio.cat (created in 2002), which was a point of reference for its quality and credibility on the Net. The portal 324.cat favours in a very special way the audiovisual aspect of news items, which is complemented with materials elaborated by the newsrooms of Televisió de Catalunya and Catalunya Ràdio. In addition, it hosts a space for citizen journalism, “Elmeu324”, where users can post their own news, whether they are in video or audio format, or whether they are pictures, or simple text. The portal is the third pillar of the continuous information channels of the CCMA (Catalan Broadcasting Corporation), together with 3/24 and Catalunya Informació. www.esport3.cat An interactive platform of sports content and services of the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation (Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals, CCMA). It offers information on all current sports news in multimedia format, using Televisió de Catalunya’s videos and Catalunya Ràdio’s audios. It also offers Internet broadcast of the UEFA football Champions League, the World Championship of Formula 1, and the basketball European League. It is complemented with photo galleries, fixtures agenda and calendar, classifications and results... ranging from football to the more minority competitions. . It is also a useful tool for those that practice sport, with updated figures offered by Catalonia’s leading sports entities and associations The portal pays special attention to interactivity with users and offers the possibility of participating through forums, chats, surveys, competitions or SMS. www.tv3alacarta.cat TV3alacarta is the free service of video-on-demand offered by Televisió de Catalunya. It enables the viewing of all the programmes with Internet broadcasting rights at any time and online, as well as all the live programmes with rights from all of Televisió de Catalunya’s channels, namely TV3, 33, 3/24, Super3, TV3CAT and 3XL. This service, created in December 2004, makes all the programmes available immediately after their broadcast on television, or a few hours later if they were live, and it retrieves previous programmes from a catalogue that progressively increases its archival content. The TV3alacarta service allows access to more than 150,000 video recordings. The offer grows by the day with the weekly incorporation of some 750 new pieces from current broadcasts as well as those from Televisió de Catalunya’s archives. The whole content of TV3alacarta is free since 1 November 2008 and subtitled contents increase by the day. Through TV3’s video podcasts service, users can subscribe free to a selection of programmes, and in this way receive them automatically on their computer or mobile device – telephone, iPod, and so on. Finally, with the idea of reaching the maximum possible number of users, TV3 is also present on the new non-computer supports that offer connection to the Internet. Thus TV3alacarta has reached a number of models of TV sets connected to the Internet, as well as the new generation of intelligent phones, the iPad and the PS3 console. www.icatfm.cat iCat fm is a new concept of a music radio station that features complete integration of radio and Internet. On iCat fm, FM broadcasts are combined with a synchronized Internet portal providing further information on what is being broadcast at any given moment. www.icatfm.cat is synchronized with radio broadcasts, showing in real time what is being played on the radio and providing additional information that enriches traditional radio broadcasts. It also provides access to the five iCat FM stations that are only broadcast over the Internet: TotCat, iCatjazz, MusiCatles, Mediterràdio and Xahrazad, and has an audio file of all the items played. The web site for the iCat FM station opens up new possibilities, allowing program directors and presenters to publish content in real time. Last but not least, it provides participation tools and virtual communities allowing listeners to take part in live programs: polls, forums, chats, competitions, etc. www.catmusica.cat Catalunya Música is a radio channel specialising in classical and contemporary music. It programmes musical selections as well as sections specialising in instrumental and choral music; ancient and contemporary music; jazz, cinema and opera music; and that of other lyrical genres, as well as musical debates and dissemination programmes aimed at schools. Catalunya Música is well known for its live recordings and broadcasts of concerts, musical cycles and festivals, and finds itself in a privileged position in the Catalan musical world. Among its offer, Catclàssica.cat should be singled out, a channel of classical music featuring Catalan composers and interpreters while offering all the relevant information about what is being broadcast in order to round off the musical experience. In addition, there is a news section, a diary with the classical music events in Catalonia and systems for classical music lovers to share their passion. www.3xl.cat The space on the Net for 3XL, the channel for the young, fosters interactivity and suggests a new way of forming part of a social network. Here you will be able to watch the series and the content that the channel broadcasts on television, apart from exclusive premieres and extended versions of some videos. The 3XL community users can gather around the official pages of the series and the programmes of the channel and can also take part in the content. 3XL seeks to become an innovative format of an online game called Món 3XL (3XL World), that integrates television, social networks and street action. Users shall have the opportunity of acting as characters in a collective fiction that will be shown on a number of platforms and will evolve according to the way the whole community acts. Moreover, members of the community can integrate themselves into other spaces of the 2.0 universe, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tuenti or reproduction services of music lists. www.super3.cat Portal (and TV program) designed for children. It offers a wide variety of contents encouraging online participation: games, videos, contests, E-mail, special promotions, postcards, forums, moderated chats (promoting contact among Club members, giving them the chance to direct their questions to celebrities, etc.), and other sections for Club members only. The portal takes great pains to ensure content quality and user security and protection. www.clubdecuines.cat Clubdecuines.cat is the reference portal for those who love cooking. It contains in excess of 6,000 recipes from the cookery programmes of TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio and even those created by the users! A good part of the recipes of the portal are included in video versions from spaces such as "Cuines", “Al vostre gust”, "Caçadors de bolets", "La cuina de l’Isma", “Karakia” or "Tàpias variades". Clubdecuines even retrieves videos and recipes from TV3’s first cookery programme, Jaume Pastallé’s "Bona cuina". Users are the true architects of Clubdecuines. Their recipes, comments and votes furnish this portal with content – a portal that works as a true gourmet community on the Internet. Each registered user has his or her own space where favourite content, recipes, channels and users can be stored. TV3 TEXT Televisió de Catalunya's (channels TV3, 33, K3, and 3/24) teletext service. Noteworthy items include: the dynamic program guide; the "What's on now?" service, which gives details on the program being broadcast and the upcoming one; the news section; and entertainment content (weekly horoscope). It also includes a wide range of sections such as Weather, Business, Lotteries, Airports and Culture, among others. In addition, it has a large sports section with news, final scores, league tables, football breaking news, which automatically updates the results of football league games as they happen. PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL NETWORKS www.tv3.cat/alaxarxa "El meu 324" (My 324) and "Jo hi vaig ser" (I Was There) are areas for participation within the 324 and esport3.cat portals, where users can contribute their own news and content in varying formats. They are an example of what has been known as "citizen journalism". The CCMA participates in the social networks seeing them as new ways of dissemination and interactivity: tens of TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio programmes already have groups and pages on Facebook, where new formats are experimented with in order to offer added value to the audience. Viewers can compare themselves with fictional characters through tests; declare themselves fans of the programmes; share videos and images; or comment the sports transmissions on the Internet in real time thanks to the integration with Facebook Connect. Twitter users can follow the latest news at twitters section on 324 and esport3.cat. Through YouTube, TV3 makes its videos available to a much wider audience, and thanks to Flickr, some programmes can offer extra visual material. Widgets are also an essential part in this revolution of the online formats. Embeddables for blogs, home pages, and desktops show the latest news on the CCMA blogs, and allow you to listen to Catalunya Ràdio programmes or keep up with the recipes from the Club de Cuines (Cuisine Club) via Twitter. CELL PHONES www.tv3.cat/mobils/ CCRTV Interactiva handles the participation channels by mobile for the programmes of TVC and Catalunya Ràdio, while offering a wide scope of services – access to mobile versions of the leading portals; news alerts; participation in various programmes; and customisation of terminals through downloading of melodies, colour backgrounds, games, and so on. It also participates in the broadcasting projects for mobile telephony of TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio, and in various pioneering interactive applications in our country, such as the TV3 mobile recorder, which enables programming from a terminal the recording of TV3 programmes at the Media Centre.