The cultural industry and the multimedia groups in Spain.

Abstract

The aim of this paper consists on clarifying the main attributes of the cultural industry and also to show the panorama of this industry in Spain. For that propose the elements that define the cultural industry will be pointed in the context, not of the Cultural Geography but of the Economic Geography. Also will be identified the main companies of the sector, their process of horizontal and vertical integration and their interrelation with other economic sectors. The paper pays attention to the role of the multimedia companies in the development of the cultural identity at the territories, and the deal of the cultural goods in the international organizations. At this point a thematic and spatial approach has been achieved, so that we can actually describe the main territorial distribution of the Spanish cultural industry, the multimedia groups, their internal structure and their spatial patterns in Spain.