El Radar

*El Radar*
El Radar
Genre	News and current affairs programme
Directed by	Darío Fernando Patiño
Presented by	Jorge Alfredo Vargas; Darío Fernando Patiño
Country of origin	Colombia
Original language	Spanish
Production
Producer	Caracol TV
Running time	30 minutes with commercials
Original release
Network	Caracol TV
Release	April 28, 2008 –; December 2011
Related
	Mesa de noche;

El radar was a Colombian current affairs programme broadcast on weeknights at 23:00 on Caracol TV.

It was presented in April 2008 by Jorge Alfredo Vargas or its director Darío Fernando Patiño (before that its presenter was D'Arcy Quinn. Most episodes feature one, two, or three interviews with politicians, analysts, artists, businesspeople, etc. The interviewers are well-known Colombian journalists from radio, television, and print media.

Twice a week the comical duo Tola y Maruja appear to mock Colombian politics and society. Its section on El radar was nominated for the India Catalina award (part of the Cartagena Film Festival) for Best Journalism and/or Opinion Programme in 2008.^[2]

On early 2009, its Monday time slot was filled with repeats of Séptimo día. During some weeks in May and June 2009 it was moved to 23:30 to make room for the Telemundo telenovela La novela basada en Sin tetas no hay paraíso, but after complaints from the viewers^[3] (and jokes by Tola y Maruja during the programme),^[4]^[5]^[6] it was returned to its initial time slot.

Regular interviewers

Paulo Laserna Phillips
Camilo Durán
Daniel Samper Ospina
Ernesto McCausland
Darío Arizmendi
María Emma Mejía
José Gabriel Ortiz
Paola Ochoa
Félix de Bedout
Javier Hernández Bonnet
María Elvira Samper
Yamid Amat Serna
Gustavo Gómez
Manuel Teodoro
Gustavo Duncan
Felipe Zuleta
Beatriz Gómez
Antonio Morales

Footnotes

^ "EL RADAR, el nuevo programa periodístico del Caracol Televisión" (in Spanish). Farándula Criolla. 2008-04-21. Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
^ The nominations for the Catalina Indian have been made^{[permanent dead link]}, Cartagena Film Festival
^ Montoya Gómez, Óscar Darío (2009-05-26). "Definitivamente no me gusta…". Así lo veo (in Spanish). El Colombiano. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
^ "Tola y Maruja se despiden de 'El radar'". El radar (in Spanish). Caracol TV. 2009-06-11. Archived from the original on 2009-07-20. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
^ "Tola y Maruja dejan carta de despedida". El radar (in Spanish). Caracol TV. 2009-06-16. Archived from the original on 2009-06-24. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
^ "El regreso de Tola y Maruja". El radar (in Spanish). Caracol TV. 2009-06-30. Archived from the original on 2009-08-04. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

External links

(in Spanish) Official site Archived 2009-07-29 at the Wayback Machine

[fc-1] "EL RADAR, el nuevo programa periodístico del Caracol Televisión" (in Spanish). Farándula Criolla. 2008-04-21. Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

[2] The nominations for the Catalina Indian have been made^{[permanent dead link]}, Cartagena Film Festival

[3] Montoya Gómez, Óscar Darío (2009-05-26). "Definitivamente no me gusta…". Así lo veo (in Spanish). El Colombiano. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

[4] "Tola y Maruja se despiden de 'El radar'". El radar (in Spanish). Caracol TV. 2009-06-11. Archived from the original on 2009-07-20. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

[5] "Tola y Maruja dejan carta de despedida". El radar (in Spanish). Caracol TV. 2009-06-16. Archived from the original on 2009-06-24. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

[6] "El regreso de Tola y Maruja". El radar (in Spanish). Caracol TV. 2009-06-30. Archived from the original on 2009-08-04. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

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