Banca y medios de comunicación en la transición española y consolidación democrática (1975-1989)

Did Spanish banks control, through corporate ownership, the media during Transition? Through analysis of 444 shareholders and/or directors main journalistic companies, this article shows connections produced between and banking system 1975 1989. It’s a relevant historical context when addressing process liberal democratization in Spain, which regained normative freedom from 1978 economy progressively abandoned Franco’s interventionism. At same time that there are dynamics concentration capital, financial sector visible group seven big banks, also immersed inertia, behaving as one more productive industry, even to detriment loss independence at important arrival democracy country.