Avila TV
| Avila TV | |
|---|---|
| Launched | July 6, 2006 |
| Owned by | Ministry of Communication and Information of Venezuela |
| Slogan | T'ás claro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Broadcast area | Venezuela |
| Headquarters | Caracas, Venezuela |
| Sister channel(s) | ANTV, teleSUR, VTV, ViVe, TVes |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Local UHF Venezuela | Channel 47 (Caracas) |
| Cable | |
| Intercable Venezuela | Channel 94 |
Ávila TV is a regional television channel created by the Venezuelan government and the Caracas metropolitan mayor, Juan Barreto. It was inaugurated on July 6, 2006 with an investment of about 11m bolívares fuertes ($5.1m United States dollars). It can be seen in the metropolitan area of Caracas on UHF channel 47, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Focussing on music and culture, it attracts young adults mainly between the ages of 14 and 30.[1]
Ávila TV is also a radical television experiment, trying to make of TV an instrument of social inclusion. Based on a radical narrative of Caracas city, its social discourse is built from another perspective as the traditional TV channels. As well as programs on gender issues which tackle the typical machismo perspective, it hosts programs that talk openly about homosexuality and others that address Indigenous and Afro-Venezuelan rights.[1]
Many of the music and lifestyles shown by Ávila TV were neglected by other media. For this reason, many are considered underground or quite rare in the city. It some extend it tries to broadcast a closer or more approximate vision of the working class and particularly the youth world of caraqueños.
The channel was transferred to the Venezuelan Ministry of Communications and Information, MINCI, as established in the Gaceta Official Nº 39.083 date 18th of December 2008.
Avila TV grew out of the Metropolitan School of Audiovisual Production (Spanish acronym: EMPA), which, still hosted in the same building, provides Caracas youth access to a free one-year program on video techniques, both at Avila headquarters and at cultural centers.[1]
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[edit] Programming
Avila TV has a very urban-oriented programming, which are mostly made by young producers with a very fresh view, since they don't come from the traditional media and neither of them were formally educated as broadcasters. Avila also holds a school of media producers called EMPA (Escuela Metropolitana de Producción Audiovisual) where they include youngsters and other members of the public who want to learn about media production, always trying to attract people from the most populated areas of Caracas. Avila also features foreign programs from other Latin American countries, as well as non commercial films and documentaries.
On October 21, 2006, Avila TV was inaugurated, then officially broadcasting its signal in full-time, 24×7 programming, showing a mixed-up format programming which includes both short clips or common 30-minute / 1 hour length programs. Some of them are:
- El Aguacate is a program about life in Caracas and its people, specially Caracas's youth.
- Caracas en Directo
- La Chatarra TV
- El Cartel
- Calle Caribe
- El Matineé
- Peluos con Curita
- El Programa Mío
- Rompe la Liga
- Habitante o Ciudadano
- KolectiVoz
- Caracas Tribal
- La Brujula Sexual
- ¿Que hago yo aquí?
- Point 47
- Donde Pisas
- La Bolita del Mundo
- Cara de Vidrio
- Onda Nuestra
- Wataca Saun
- República del Oeste
- Bipolar Idol
- R.P.T. (Rodando, Pelando y Tripeando)
- Guerra Nuestra
- Sabor Bacano
- Urbanautas
- Metalmorfosis
- El Mañanero
- Lo que sea
- El Entrompe de Falopio
- Así mismo
- La Cuadra
[edit] See also
- List of Venezuelan television channels
- Asamblea Nacional Televisión (ANTV)
- Buena Televisión
- teleSUR
- Televisión Educativa
- Venezolana de Televisión (VTV)
- ViVe
- TVes
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Venezuelanalysis, 15 June 2009, Avila TV Venezuela: Revolutionizing Television
