Caracol TV

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Caracol Televisión S.A.
Type Broadcast Television Network
Branding Canal Caracol
Country Colombia
Availability Colombia
Founded 1954 (as a TV production company)
1967 (spun off from Caracol Radio)
Slogan (Spanish) Más cerca de ti
(English) Closer To You
Broadcast area Colombia
Owner Julio Mario Santo Domingo
Key people Carlos Alejandro Pérez Dávila, CEO
Launch date 10 July 1998 (as a TV network)
Affiliates Caracol TV Internacional
gentv
RTI
Telemundo
Official website www.caracoltv.com

Caracol Televisión is a Colombian private national television network, owned by Julio Mario Santo Domingo.

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[edit] History

Caracol Televisión started in 1954 when Organización de Radiodifusora Caracol offered to afford national television costs, then state-run, through commercial spots. At that time its board (Fernando Londoño Henao, Cayetano Betancourt, Carlos Sanz de Santamaría, Pedro Navas, and Germán Montoya) started to suggest the possibility of establishing the first television station in Colombia. One year later that idea was accepted and they decided to share the rights with Radiodifusora Nacional, the state-run company operating the Televisora Nacional, the only television station in Colombia at the time, creating TVC (Televisión Comercial Ltda.), a company which lasted two years.

In 1967, Inravisión awarded through a public bidding the then production/programming company 45 hours a week; because of this, Caracol Radio spun off Caracol Televisión S. A., having TV shows' marketing and production as its main goal. In 1987 Valores Bavaria group became the main stockholder and prompted a technical and administrative modernization to the company.

On November 24, 1997 Caracol Televisión was granted a licence as a "private-operated national channel" for 10 years from Colombia's National Television Commission (CNTV). The other licence went to RCN Televisión. This implied a plan in order to make the infrastructure which was used to produce 10.5 hours a week would have to work to have on air 18 hours a day of general programming since 10 July 1998.

In 2000 Caracol TV (HJCY-TV) strengthened a deal with marketing television company TEPUY, and next year signed a telenovela co-production deal with RTI and Telemundo and a short lived deal with Buena Vista International. In 2002 Caracol TV Internacional was launched.

On December 28, 2010, Caracol TV officially started digital broadcasts[1] for Bogotá, Medellín and surrounding areas on channel 14 UHF.

[edit] WGEN-TV

In December 2005, Caracol TV bought a 25% stake of Miami, Florida television station WGEN-TV. Programming on WGEN includes Colombian and Brazilian telenovelas, a news program produced in Colombia. The station also produced and a local version of Desafío 20.06, a reality show similar to Survivor and an original US-produced variety comedy series entitled La Boca Loca de Paul, hosted by Paul Bouche. [2] Some of Caracol TV's telenovelas were remade for MyNetworkTV in the US, such as Desire, based on Mesa Para Tres (Table for Three).

[edit] Shows produced and/or broadcast by Caracol TV

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[edit] Telenovelas

[edit] News / journalism

[edit] Reality shows / Game shows

[edit] Series

[edit] Anime/Animation

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ EFE (28 December 2010). "Caracol y RCN inician emisión digital terrestre" (in Spanish). El Espectador. http://elespectador.com/entretenimiento/arteygente/medios/articulo-242579-caracol-y-rcn-inician-emision-digital-terrestre. Retrieved 30 December 2010. 
  2. ^ Hoag, Christina (2006-08-25). "Caracol revamps South Florida station". The Miami Herald. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 2006-09-21. http://web.archive.org/web/20060921003440/http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/15355774.htm. 

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Over the air
Local cable channels
Defunct channels
National channels
Private: Caracol TV · RCN TV — Public: Canal Institucional  · Canal Uno* · Señal Colombia
Major local and regional
channels
Religious
channels
Major cable and satellite
channels
Defunct channels
Cadena 2 / Canal A (1972-2004) · Teletigre (1966-1971) · Tele 9 Corazón (1971-1972)
*Canal Uno is state-owned, privately-run
**Canal U is run by state and private universities in Antioquia
Channels in italics are state-owned  · Full list · See also: Television in Bogotá - Television in Colombia

Coordinates: 4°41′38″N 74°4′27″W / 4.69389°N 74.07417°W / 4.69389; -74.07417

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