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2000 In Spanish Television
This is a list of Spanish television related events in 2000. Events * 23 April: Telecinco premieres '' Big Brother'', a true mass phenomenon, which will open a debate on the ethical limits of television. ''Reality shows'' will become the most viewed TV shows for the next two decades. * 12 May: Javier González Ferrari is appointed General Director of RTVE. Debuts Television shows Ending this year Foreign series debuts in Spain Births * 19 March - Carlota García, actress. Deaths * 28 April - Miguel Armario, actor, 84. * 24 May - Arturo López, actor, 66. * 5 July - Blanca Álvarez, hostess, 70. * 7 July - Felipe Mellizo, journalist, 67. * 16 October - Antonio Ferrandis, actor, 79. * 26 October - Jesús Puente, actor and host, 69. See also * 2000 in Spain *List of Spanish films of 2000 A list of Spanish-produced and co-produced feature films released in Spain in 2000. When applicable, the domestic theatrical release date is favoured. Films , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In Spain
Television in Spain was introduced in 1956, when the national state-owned public service television broadcaster Televisión Española (TVE) started regular analog free-to-air terrestrial black and white broadcasts. Colour transmissions started in 1972 after two years of test transmissions, with all programming transmitted in color in 1977, and colour commercials starting in 1978. TVE held a monopoly on television broadcasting until regional public channels were launched during the 1980s and commercial television started nationwide in 1990. Digital terrestrial television was launched on 30 November 2005 with analog service discontinued on 3 April 2010. Currently, television is one of the leading mass media of the country, and by 2008 was in 99.7% of households in Spain according to INE statistics. Until recently terrestrial television was considered an essential public service. Broadcasting is managed both directly by the State and indirectly, through controlled concessions to pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paz Padilla
María de la Paz Padilla Díaz (born 25 September 1969 in Cádiz) is a Spanish comedian, actress and presenter. After working as a clinical assistant in a Cádiz hospital, she became known in the comedy contest ''Saque bola'' (1989) on the regional Andalusian television channel Canal Sur. She later appeared in 1994 on the television comedy show ''Genio y Figura'' on Antena 3 (Spain), Antena 3. She then made several appearances on several shows in this channel. In 1996, she co-hosted the television charity special ''Inocente, Inocente''. Between 1997 and 1999, she worked for the late night show ''Crónicas marcianas'' on Telecinco. After that, she has worked for several television shows as a presenter. Since November 2009, she hosts the talk show ''Sálvame'' (a program with a large following in Telecinco) on Thursdays and Fridays and holiday periods. Since 2019, Padilla has been on the talent show ''Got Talent España'' as a judge. Besides her career as a presenter and comedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Héctor Alterio
Héctor Benjamín Alterio Onorato (born 21 September 1929) is an Argentine theatre, film and television actor, well known both in Argentina and Spain. Biography Alterio's theatre debut came in 1948 as the lead in ''Cómo suicidarse en primavera'' ("How to commit suicide in spring"). After finishing drama school, he created the ''Nuevo Teatro'' ("New Theatre") company in 1950, where he worked until 1968 and helped change the Argentine theatrical scene of the 1960s. He also worked in the Argentine cinema. His debut on the silver screen took place in Alfredo Mathé's ''Todo sol es amargo'' (''Every sun is bitter'') in 1965. He then participated in many of the most important Argentine movies of the 1970s, including ''La Patagonia rebelde'' (''The Rebel Patagonia''), which was awarded a Silver Bear at the 24th Berlin International Film Festival. His voice was used in ''Ya es tiempo de violencia'' (1969), an anonymous film about the ''Cordobazo'' riots which took place the same ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Meca
David Meca Medina (born 1 February 1974 in Sabadell) is a long distance swimmer from Spain, who has swum from mainland Spain to Ibiza among his exploits. He won gold at the 2005 FINA World Championships in Montreal for the men's open water 25 km. Meca took silver in the 5 km event at the 2000 World Championships in Hawaii. He also won silver in the 25 km competition and a bronze in the 10 km at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Meca served a one-year ban on every competition and a four-year ban on championships following a positive test for nandrolone, a banned performance enhancer, in 1999. He was able to participate in World Championships in year 2000 because the sanction had not then been confirmed by the FINA. The sanction that was finally lifted because the swimmer was considered ''clean'', after a long battle to prove his innocence. It was during the time of this sanction that he started focusing on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Argenta
Fernando Martín de Argenta Pallarés (4 July 1945 – 3 December 2013) was a Spanish writer, journalist, musician and presenter of radio and television. Born in Madrid, the son of conductor and pianist Ataúlfo Argenta, Argenta completed advanced studies in music at the Madrid Royal Conservatory, he combined activity with the Bachelor of Law from the Complutense University of Madrid. In his youth, he was a member of the rock band Micky and The Tonys, which he left in 1965 to fulfill the military service. In 1976, Argenta began working at Radio Nacional de España (RNE), the station that ran the program ''Popular Classics''. In 2003, 2004 and 2006, he was the commentator of RTVE in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest held in Copenhagen (Denmark), Lillehammer (Norway) and Bucharest (Romania), respectively. Fernando Argenta died of pancreatic cancer on 3 December 2013, aged 68, in Boadilla del Monte, Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; es, Comunidad de Madrid ) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inés Ballester
María Inés Ballester Muñoz (born 28 September 1958) is a Spanish journalist and presenter. Biography With a licentiate in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Inés Ballester started her career at Cadena SER, and later went on to the daily magazine of Radio Nacional de España. After a few years she made the leap to television, first at the territorial center of Televisión Española (TVE) in Valencia, as head of programs, and then on Nou and Telemadrid. After three years on Telemadrid, she was signed to Antena 3 in 1997. In 2001 she returned to TVE where she presented the morning program ', along with , for six seasons. It was canceled in March 2008. Shortly afterward, Ballester joined another morning show at La 1, in this case on weekends, under the title ', which premiered on 24 May 2008. The program was canceled on 2 August, however, after accumulating a ratings share of 11.3%, below the network's average. From January to December 2010 she co-presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Izaguirre
Boris Rodolfo Izaguirre Lobo ( Caracas, 29 September 1965), better known as Boris Izaguirre, is a Venezuelan writer, TV host, screenwriter, journalist and showman. Career Izaguirre wrote the scripts of some of the Venezuelan telenovelas: ''Ruby'' and ''La dama de rosa''. After their success in Spain, he moved to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. In Spain, Izaguirre started to write scripts and appear on television shows. He became a prominent showman, especially after his participation in the late night television show ''Crónicas Marcianas''. Izaguirre has written articles for several publications, including ''Zero'', '' El País Semanal'', ''Fotogramas'' and '' Marie Claire''. He was the host of the daily talk show ''Channel Nº4'' alongside Ana García-Siñeriz on Cuatro from 2005 to 2008, when the program was cancelled. He also hosted the Miss Venezuela pageant in 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2013. In February 2006, Izaguirre married his longtime boyfriend Rubén Nogu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesús Vázquez (television Presenter)
Jesús Vázquez Martínez (born 9 September 1965) is a Spanish television presenter. In 2008 he became the first Spaniard to be selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. Biography Vázquez was born in Ferrol, Galicia. He moved to Melilla, where he joined as an undergraduate at the local Veterinary School; however, before he could complete his studies he moved to Madrid. In this period he worked as model. Vázquez rose to fame in the early 1990s as the host of two television shows aimed at the teenage audience aired on Telecinco: ''La quinta marcha'' (1990-1991), which he hosted alongside Penélope Cruz, and ''Hablando se entiende la basca'' (1991-1993). In this period he starred in the film ''Aquí el que no corre, vuela''. (1992), directed by Ramón Fernández and produced by Telecinco, along with Alfredo Landa, Arturo Fernández, Arancha del Sol and Natalia Estrada. In 1993 he ventured into singing with the album ''A dos milímetros escasos de tu boca'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal+ (Spanish TV Channel)
Canal+ was a Spanish commercial television channel launched in September 1990 on terrestrial television frequencies. The channel was operated by Sogecable, before its eventual sale to Telefónica, and was available on the digital satellite television and IPTV platform Movistar+. In 1997, new channels using the Canal+ brand were launched in Spain, following the launch of Canal Satélite Digital. Just as on the other markets where Canal+ was present, the channels were named after colours: Canal+ Rojo (Canal+ Red) and Canal+ Azul (Canal+ Blue). A special channel broadcasting content in 16:9 aspect ratio was launched later, but it was replaced by a time-shift channel in 2001. In 2003, the colour channels were replaced with the second channel called Canal+ 2 and three dedicated movie channels and three dedicated sports channels. In 2005, the Spanish government agreed to a change in the license terms for the channel. The permission to change the channel from a mostly encrypted channe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuria Roca
Nuria Roca Granell (Moncada, Valencia, 23 March 1972) is a Spanish writer, TV presenter, actress, radio announcer and architect. In 1993 she finished her studies at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia In 1999 she hosted the TV programme ''¿Cuánto cuesta?''. Between 2003 and 2005 she presented ''La isla de los famosos'' on Antena 3 and in 2004 ''UHF''. In 2017 she started to present the TV program ''Fantastic Duo'' in La 1. In December 2017 she returned to Cuatro after being seven years out Mediaset España and she presented the dating show Singles XD. The program was cancelled the same month after thirteen episodes due to the low share. In September 2018 she became a team member in the Spanish talk show ''El hormiguero''. Personal life She got married with the writer and businessman Juan del Val and they keep an open marriage. She has a son named Juan born in 2002, a son named Pau born in 2006 and a daughter named Olivia born in 2010. Filmography * ''El hombre de t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diario De Navarra
''Diario de Navarra'' (also called ''El Diario de Navarra''; Spanish: ''Navarra Daily'') is a Spanish language regional newspaper based in Pamplona, Spain. The paper has been in circulation since 1903. History and profile ''Diario de Navarra'' was established by five local families in 1903. The paper has its headquarters in Pamplona. It is part of the company, Grupo La Información, owned by founding families. The publisher is also the same company. In the late 1970s ''Diario de Navarra'' supported the view that the province of Navarre should remain part of Spain and be independent of Euskadi. On 22 August 1979 ETA Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell, ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative in most dialects, ... attempted to assassinate the editor of the paper, José Javier Uranga, allegedly due to this support. On the other h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Nart
Javier Nart Peñalver (born 19 August 1947) is a Spanish journalist and politician who has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014, currently taking part in the Renew Europe group. From 2012 until 2019, he was a member of Citizens (Spanish political party), Citizens (Cs). Early life and education Nart was born on 19 August 1947 in Laredo, Cantabria, Laredo, in the autonomous community of Cantabria. His father was the First Notary of Bilbao. Nart attended an Opus Dei school and was being prepared to join the Society of Jesus, something that did not suit him because he is nonreligious. Despite his unbelief, he says that he has "tremendous respect" for the Jesuits, particularly the ones he would later meet in his travels in Nicaragua. Nart studied law at the University of Barcelona, but also took up journalism because he wanted to make his way to Barcelona without his father. He jokes that he was a "picapleito" (bad lawyer) during the week, but citizen activist on the we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
