Televisión Nacional de Chile

TVN
Launched	October 24, 1969
Owned by	State of Chile
Audience share	23.9% (May 2005, [1])
Country	Chile
Broadcast area	Chile
Headquarters	Santiago, Chile
Website	http://www.tvn.cl
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital ISDB-Tb (Greater Santiago)	33
Analog (Greater Santiago)	7
Analog (Greater Concepción)	4
Analog (Greater Valparaiso)	12
Analog (Arica)	5
Analog (Antofagasta)	6
Analog (Chillán)	6
Analog (Temuco)	7
Analog (Punta Arenas)	6

TVN (spanish Televisión Nacional de Chile, literally in english: National Television of Chile) is Chile's state-owned television station. Its inaugural transmission took place on 1969. TVN is owned, but not funded, by the state, and it functions independently from it; a very particular case of public television in South America. A board of directors, appointed by the President of the Republic and later ratified by the Senate, oversees control over the station. The distribution of the members of the board tend to coincide with the political composition of the current Congress.

Technical details

TVN sends its feed via a 200+ sender network spanning 98% of Chile. It airs in Santiago on digital frequency channel 33 (ISDB-Tb) for HDTV.

It also operates an international station (TV Chile), that is received via satellite around the world, and a news network station called "24 Horas".

Regional networks

TVN broadcasts outside metropolitan area using local repeaters called Redes (Spanish for Networks). Each of these repeat national TVN feed, plus, a local newscast, as well as local advertising. These TVN owned networks are:

• TVN Red Tarapacá (Iquique)
• TVN Red Antofagasta (Antofagasta)
• TVN Red Atacama (Copiapó)
• TVN Red Coquimbo (La Serena)
• TVN Red Valparaíso (Valparaíso)
• TVN Red O'Higgins (Rancagua)
• TVN Red Maule (Talca)
• TVN Red Biobío (Concepción)
• TVN Red Araucanía (Temuco)
• TVN Red Austral (Punta Arenas)

TVN logo 1996-2004

Programming

Buddy Richard with Rafael Araneda in Rojo, Fama Contrafama.

TVN broadcasts from 07:00 CLT-02:00 CLT (24 hours a day in TV Chile) and offers a mix of news, variety shows and soap operas. Its primetime is dominated by local dramas, telenovelas and local adaptations of American sitcoms. The most important shows currently airing on the network are:

• Buenos Días a Todos - Good Morning Everyone (breakfast)
• Hijos del Monte - Del Monte Sons (telenovela)
• Los Pincheira - The Pincheiras (telenovela)
• Dr. House - HOUSE (TV series)
• 24 Horas - 24 hours (newscast)
• El Baile en TVN - Dance on TVN (Chilean version of Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars)
• 31 Minutos - 31 Minutes (children's programming)
• Cachureos - Junk (children's programming)
• Último Minuto - up-to-the-minute (investigative journalism)
• La Ruta de Amazonía - Amazon trail (documentary)
• Hora 25 - 25th hour (culture)
• La Cultura Entretenida - Cultural Entertainment (culture)
• Mea Culpa - Mea Culpa I'm Guilty (docudrama)
• Pasiones - Passions (talk show)
• Rojo, Fama Contrafama Red, Fame and Infame (defunct Interactive reality-based singing and dancing competition)
• Se Habla Español - Spanish Spoken (tv show) only signal (TV Chile)
• Digan lo que Digan - Whatever (talk show)

Telenovelas

TVN HD (Chile) logo

• Amelia (1981)
• Villa Los Aromos (1981)
• De Cara al Mañana (1982)
• La Gran Mentira (1982)
• El Juego de la Vida (1983)
• La torre 10 (1984)
• La represa (1984)
• La Dama del Balcón (1985)
• Morir de Amor (1985)
• Marta a las 8 (1986)
• La Villa (1986)
• Mi Nombre es Lara (1987)
• Bellas y audaces (1988)
• Las Dos Caras del Amor (1988)
• A la Sombra del Angel (1989)
• El milagro de vivir (1990)
• Volver a empezar (1991)
• Trampas y caretas (1992)
• Jaque Mate (1993)
• Ámame (1993)
• Rompecorazón (1994)
• Rojo y Miel (1994)
• Estúpido Cupido (1995)
• Juegos de fuego (1995)
• Sucupira (1996)
• Loca piel (1996)
• Oro verde (1997)
• Tic tac (1997)
• Iorana (1998)
• Borrón y cuenta nueva (1998)
• La fiera (1999)
• Aquelarre (1999)
• Romané (2000)
• Santo Ladrón (2000)
• Pampa Ilusión (2001)
• Amores de mercado (2001)
• El circo de las Montini (2002)
• Purasangre (2002)
• 16 (2003)
• Puertas adentro (2003)
• Pecadores (2003)
• Ídolos (2004)
• Los Pincheira (2004)
• Destinos cruzados (2004)
• Los Treinta (2005)
• 17 (2005)
• Los Capo (2005)
• Versus (2005)
• Amor en tiempo récord (2006)
• Entre medias (2006)
• Cómplices (2006)
• Disparejas (2006)
• Floribella (2006)
• Karkú (2007)
• Corazón de María (2007)
• Alguien te mira (2007)
• Amor por accidente (2007)
• Karkú second season (2008)
• El Señor de la Querencia (2008)
• Viuda Alegre (2008)
• Hijos del Monte (2008)
• Los Exitosos Pells (2009)
• ¿Dónde está Elisa? (2009)
• Los Ángeles de Estella (2009–2010)
• Conde Vrolok (2009–2010)
• Martín Rivas (2010)
• Karkú third season (2010)
• 40 y tantos (2010)
• La Familia de al lado (2010)
• Témpano (2011)
• El Laberinto de Alicia (2011)
• Aquí Mando Yo (2011)
• Su Nombre es Joaquín (2011-2012)
• Rico Pobre (2012)
• Reserva de Familia (2012)

Miscellaneous

TVN is available on satellite and digital cable in over 100 countries worldwide, esp. across Latin America and to other Hispanosphere countries like Spain. Many (US) American and European viewers find TVN to have good quality in graphics comparable with European-based networks known for bigger budgets for production.

Major satellite and cable providers have noted growing demand for TVN to be offered in Canada. TVN is available in Australia, New Zealand and Brazil, wherever there are Chilean expatriate communities.

TVN has an affiliation agreement with NBC based in the USA and its subsidiary Telemundo, a Spanish-language television network in the United States. TVN airs a small amount of programming from the two networks.

TVN competes well with international channels, esp. from the USA such as CNN, MTV and the "big four" networks like Fox, ABC and CBS (and all its Spanish-language versions) available on satellite in Chile.

TVN was the first Latin American channel to open a channel in YouTube. TVN and TVNMedia is the archive for a total of 40 years of their produced material: programs, logos and bumpers,and TVN official YouTube account downloads actual videos and TVNMedia old ones from 1970s, 1980s and 1990s programming,logos,bumpers,etc.

See also

• List of Chilean television channels

External links

• Official Site (Spanish)