Analysis of the video archives of the main televisions in Spain

The aim of this study is to analyse the audiovisual archives on the Internet of the main televisions of Spain by 24 indicators, which are grouped into five sections: general aspects, content, query system, presentation of results and audiovisual aspects. The methodology follows the evaluation research with the technique of content analysis applied in other works to evaluate digital press archives or television archives. The analysed samples are the televisions with more audience in Spain during 2013 (Antena 3, Cuatro, La Sexta, Telecinco and TVE1). The results of the study difference the better results of the public archive of TVE1 with the rest of the private televisions analysed. In general, there is a tendency to give more importance to the display of content than to the quality of the search systems