Electoral Board distributes 181.5 minutes of campaign advertising between RNE and Radio 5

The Provincial Electoral Board of Cantabria has determined the timing and order of broadcast for electoral propaganda slots on Radio Nacional de España (RNE) and Radio Cinco (R5), which will be broadcast simultaneously during the campaign for the general elections on November 29, 2026. The resolution, with reference CVE-2026-8946, is published in the extraordinary Official Gazette of Cantabria number 33, dated November 12, 2026, on pages 5745 and 5746, under section 9, Elections. The agreement was adopted in Santander on November 10, 2026, and is signed by the secretary of the Provincial Electoral Board, Julio Iván Antolín Muñoz.

Five disconnection slots and a total of 181.5 minutes

The radio schedule is organized into five daily blocks, with territorial disconnection times and a fixed duration for each. The sum of all these results in the 181.5 minutes of propaganda that the Board distributes among the parties contesting the 29N:

• 07:56 hours: 4 daily minutes, simultaneous on RNE and R5, for a total of 44 minutes.
• 08:57 hours: 2.5 daily minutes, only on R5, for a total of 27.5 minutes.
• 13:56 hours: 4 daily minutes, simultaneous on RNE and R5, for a total of 44 minutes.
• 14:26 hours: 4 daily minutes, simultaneous on RNE and R5, for a total of 44 minutes.
• 19:58 hours: 2 daily minutes, simultaneous on RNE and R5, for a total of 22 minutes.

Campaign from November 13 to 27

The table annexed to the resolution organizes the daily broadcasts from Friday, November 13, to Friday, November 27, 2026, both inclusive, leaving Sunday the 29th as the voting day. Each day is divided into the aforementioned time blocks and, within each block, the document assigns the order of intervention for the candidacies. The official legend identifies the beneficiaries of the slots:

• PP: Partido Popular.
• PSOE: Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party.
• VOX: Vox.
• FA: Frente Amplio.
• PODEMOS: Podemos.
• NA: Not assigned.

The boxes marked as NA correspond to segments that the Board leaves unallocated, meaning the effective count of minutes varies according to the party and the slot.

Separate resolution for television

The decision regarding radio is published independently from the one regulating television access. The same extraordinary Official Gazette of Cantabria number 33 includes a specific resolution, with reference CVE-2026-8945, which determines the timing and order of broadcast for propaganda slots on the Territorial Center of Televisión Española (La 1), with its own slots and blocks for the campaign. Both agreements share the same institutional issuer—the Provincial Electoral Board of Cantabria—and time frame, but are published and applied separately for each medium.

A distribution that conditions party strategy

The document is not limited to setting durations: it orders the sequence of interventions within each block, so that each party knows in advance in which position of the radio space they will appear each day of the campaign. This sequence, combined with the distinction between the simultaneous broadcast of RNE and R5 and the exclusive R5 slot at 08:57, determines the potential reach of each message in the final stretch toward 29N.

Source: Official Gazette of Cantabria, extraordinary no. 33, November 12, 2026, section I (9. Elections), pp. 5745-5746 (official reference: CVE-2026-8946).