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-Welcome to ‘Easy Planet’! I am Eva Expósito and this is the only easy-to-understand news program on Spanish television.
My name is Simon Marco. We remind you that this is a television program made by and for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
This is how the second season of ‘Planeta Fácil Tv’ begins, an initiative by Full Inclusion and Servimediawith the help of the Once Foundation. The program can now be seen on 60 local television channels, from ‘Canal Media TV’, ‘Siete TV de Andalucía’ and ‘Radio Televisión Melilla’.
Overcoming what has been achieved so far will not be easy, the program received one of the international awards ‘Zero Project 2022’, that rewards to the most innovative disability projects in the world. Although, these two presenters and their entire team of technicians and specialists, have much more news to tell us.
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Eva and Simón, presenters of Easy Planet TV.
Its purpose has not changed since the adventure began just a year ago, “it is regarding making a monthly news item of 15 to 20 minutes that the almost 300,000 people with intellectual disabilities in Spain can understand,” he explained to 20minutos José L. Corretje, Director of Communication at Plena Institución.
But the news can also help to understand the reality that surrounds them to the 9 million older people what is in our country and to the entire foreign population that comes to him and still does not handle the language well, says the promoter.
After all, “the media, and more so the public, should guarantee access to fundamental rights such as Right to information to the entire population. And sometimes, for economic interests or other reasons, this is not fulfilled and they forget regarding a group that has the same rights as the rest”, he denounces.
To end this deprivation, the project includes a website with news, documents and reading club (in easy reading), directed by Antonio Hinojosa. And since this January 2022, it has a radio program broadcast on Radio Nacional de España.
An example of their work can be the celebration of the International Women’s Day next March 8. The concepts of ‘gender’, ‘pay gap’ or ‘gender violence’ will be explained through all its channels so that people with disabilities can “access realities that no one tells them by other means”.
The same has happened so far with ‘labour reform’ or the ‘interprofessional minimum wage’, concepts that may entail certain difficulties, but that are essential to “a true inclusion of people with disabilities in society”, points out José L. Corretje.
Second season: “new sections, themes and familiar faces”
As its presenters anticipate at the beginning of the last episode, this second season is loaded with novelties with: “new sections, current affairs and familiar faces”. To do this, join the team Saray Guazaa reporter with a disability who will host the El Dato section.
The program recorded from the headquarters in the ILUNION Tower, contains, in addition to the initial block of current news, a block Hero where a person with an intellectual disability recounts his life experience in a format of short questions and answers or a final block of interview in which the director general of Servimedia interviews great personalities from politics, the economy or the Third Sector to talk regarding disability.
The director of 20Minutos, Encarna Samitier, has been the first to premiere this last section in the second season. The theme might not be more timely: accessibility and the treatment of disability in the media.
-You know what I’m telling you? That Simón and I are happy to do this program once more.
-We go with the music elsewhere. Do not forget that we are back in thirty days with a new program for the entire world-concludes its presenter
