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Bertín Osborne
Norberto Juan Ortiz Osborne (born 7 December 1954), better known as Bertín Osborne, is a Spanish vocalist, actor and TV personality. He was born in Madrid, but raised in Puerto de Santa María and later in Jerez de la Frontera. His maternal surname comes from a great-great-great grandfather who immigrated from Exeter, England to Puerto de Santa María, Spain during the late 18th century and founded the Osborne Group wine company. He is also a businessman known for his entrepreneurships, and a restaurateur. Music Osborne's first musical performance was in 1971 at the Song Festival at El Escorial, but he had to wait until 1980 to sign his first contract to record an album. Discography Notes *A. ''Motivation'' is an English-language album that was not released in Spain but appeared in other European territories. The Iperspazio pressing is from Italy. *B. ''Va Por Ellos'' is a fund-raising disc with proceeds benefiting Fundación Padre Garralda. In Spain, the disc was sold e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Va Por Ellos
''Va Por Ellos'' is a studio album released by the Spain, Spanish singer Bertín Osborne in 2008. The disc was recorded at SonicProjects studio in Miami, Florida.Liner notes of ''Va Por Ellos'' (2008, Bertín Osborne Intermediaciones). The album has cover versions of songs made famous by Pepe Aguilar, Ricardo Montaner and Vicente Fernandez, among others. A ranchera album, Osborne is accompanied by members of the U.S.-based troupe Mariachi Mexico Internacional Si Señor on the disc. This is Osborne's third ranchera-styled disc, following ''Sabor A México'' in 2000 and ''Mis Recuerdos'' in 2002, both Top 10 albums in Spain. "I grew up listening to mariachi and ranchera music, listening to Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete," Osborne told ABC (newspaper), ''ABC'' (newspaper) in Madrid during promotion of ''Va Por Ellos''. "I'm very tied to Mexico. It's like my second home."Valle, Vanessa Job"Bertín, Solidario Por Rancheras" ''ABC (newspaper), ABC'', April 27, 2008 The disc was sold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Televisa
Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announced that they had proposed a merger between Televisa's media and entertainment assets with Univision, which would form a new company to be known as TelevisaUnivision. The transaction was completed on January 31, 2022, with Televisa owning a 45% stake of the company. Company History Since its beginning, the company has been owned by the Azcárraga family. The company has been led and owned by three generations of Azcárraga; each has marked an era for the company and, until October 2017, each had passed the ownership of the company to his son upon his death. Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (1955–1972) Grupo Televisa was founded in 1955 as Telesistema Mexicano, linking Mexico's first three television stations: XHTV-TV (founded in 1950), XEW- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maracaibo
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Vocento
Vocento, S.A., also known as Grupo Vocento, is a Spanish mass media group. Its flagship daily newspaper is the conservative and monarchist ''ABC'', also publishing ''El Correo''. Vocento was created in 2001 upon the merger of Grupo Correo with , the publisher of ''ABC''. The group is also a player in the regional press sector, mainly owing to former properties of Correo (''El Diario Montañés'', '' La Verdad'', ''Hoy'', ''Ideal'', '' Sur'', ''La Rioja'', ''El Norte de Castilla'', '' El Comercio''). Through Net TV, the group also owns a DDT license, which is leased to Paramount Network and Disney Channel. History It has its origins in 1910 with the launch of ''El Pueblo Vasco'', a newspaper founded by the Ybarra family, which merged with El Correo Español in 1938. In the 1940s they obtained shares in El Noticiero Bilbaíno and in 1948 they began its development with the acquisition of most of El Diario Vasco. The expansion outside the Basque Country (Spain) started in 1984 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC (newspaper)
''ABC'' () is a Spanish national daily newspaper. It is the second largest general-interest newspaper in Spain, number one in Madrid, and the oldest newspaper still operating in Madrid. Along with '' El Mundo'' and '' El País'', it is one of Spain’s three newspapers of record. History and profile ''ABC'' was first published in Madrid on 1 January 1903 by Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez-Ossorio. The founding publishing house was Prensa Española, which was led by the founder of the paper, Luca de Tena. The paper started as a weekly newspaper, turning daily in June 1905. In 1928 ABC had two editions, one for Madrid and the other for Seville. The latter was named ''ABC de Sevilla''. On 20 July 1936, shortly after the Spanish Civil War began, ''ABC'' in Madrid was seized by the republican government, which changed the paper's politics to support the Republicans. The same year '' Blanco y Negro'', a magazine, became its supplement. The ''ABC'' printed in Seville was supportive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telemadrid
Telemadrid is a public regional television station in the Community of Madrid, Spain, the flagship channel of the regional public broadcaster Radio Televisión Madrid (RTVM). It began its broadcast on 2 May 1989. History First years Telemadrid was created when Joaquín Leguina (PSOE) was the regional president. During its first years, Telemadrid occupied the buildings of the Agencia EFE, where it suffered an attack from the domestic terrorist group GRAPO on 29 May 1993. There were no casualties and the event was covered live on Telemadrid. On 11 March 1997, Telemadrid celebrated the opening of its current location, in the Ciudad de la Imagen, in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid. The building, which was called "special interest" on World Architecture Day in October 1997, holds all of the production centers for the radio-television entity. The digital era The year 2001 marked a turning point in the history of the '' Ente Público Empresarial''. Telemadrid became the first autono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuatro (TV Channel)
Cuatro (stylized as cuatro°, "Four") is a Spanish free-to-air television channel that was launched in November 2005. Owned by Mediaset España, the Spanish subsidiary of the Italian Mediaset group, it is broadcast on TV frequencies licensed to the previous owner Sogecable in 1990 and previously used by them for the analogue transmission of its pay-per-view channel Canal+. History In 2006, Cuatro scored a massive coup by striking a deal with the Royal Spanish Football Federation and Spain's national football team allowing it to show all of the team's matches, and it also concluded an agreement with rival channel La Sexta to share the rights to broadcast the games of general interest in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. It snatched this licence from TVE, who had held the rights to the national team's matches for years. In 2008, together with satellite platform Digital+, owned by the same company, Cuatro secured the rights to broadcast the UEFA Euro 2008 championship, scoring the highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Hormiguero
''El Hormiguero'' (, Spanish for "The Anthill") is a Spanish television program with a live audience focusing on comedy, science, and guest interviews running since September 2006. It is hosted and produced by screenwriter Pablo Motos. The show aired on Spain's Cuatro channel from launch until June 2011 and is now broadcast on Antena 3. Recurring guests on the show include Luis Piedrahita, Raquel Martos, Marron & El Hombre de Negro ("The Man in Black") (the scientists), and puppet ants Trancas and Barrancas (from the Spanish expression "a trancas y barrancas," which means "in fits and starts"). It has proved a ratings success, and has expanded from a weekly 120-minute show to a daily 40-minute show in its third season, which began on 17 September 2007. The first series was produced by Gestmusic, the Spanish venture of Endemol, however since the second series it has been produced by 7yAcción, a production company formed by Motos and the show's director Jorge Salvador. On a Caden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intereconomía TV
Intereconomía TV (commonly referred as "Intereconomía") is a Spanish television network centered on political and economic news from a right-wing political point of view. However, in 2010, Intereconomía TV has renewed its content and is now a national television channel; because of this, in 2010 Intereconomía Corporation has created Intereconomía Business, a channel dedicated to economic and financial news. Intereconomía TV currently has programs including news (''Crónica 1, Crónica 2''), politics ('' El gato al agua''), health (+ Vivir), travel (''Vuelta y vuelta''), entertainment (''Lista de bodas'') and sports (''Punto pelota''). It has also incorporated dating shows (''Dando caña''). These new programs have brought Intereconomía TV 1.2% of the television share in Spain in June 2010, a historical record of a new channel. Due to economic mismanagement, now Intereconomía TV is asking for money in a savings account to viewers. See also *Television in Spain *Sociedad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nou (TV Channel)
Nou Televisió (), or simply Nou (Valencian for "nine" or "new"), previously known as Canal Nou ("Channel Nine" or "New Channel"), was a public television station in the Valencian Community, Spain. It was run by Radiotelevisió Valenciana (RTVV), which was operated from Burjassot, and operated from 9 October 1989 until November 29, 2013. History Broadcasting It was broadcast in Valencian and Spanish and could be watched in the Valencian Community and adjacent areas, especially Catalonia and Murcia. The station broadcast in stereo, and it was often possible to watch programmes in dual language (original soundtrack and Valencian (or Spanish) dub). Programming The newscasts were divided into three issues of Notícies Nou and one morning, Bon Dia Comunitat Valenciana. It broadcast Valencian fiction series such as Negocis de Família, Les Moreres or L'Alqueria Blanca. It also broadcast soap operas, mainly of Mexican and Venezuelan production. It brings the news of the community clos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canal Sur
Canal Sur ('South Channel') is part of Radio y Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA), the public broadcasting company of Andalusia. It was created by means of the devolved powers given to this region by an Act of Parliament in its statute of autonomy. Canal Sur consists of two television channels, Canal Sur TV and Canal Sur 2, a public radio network, Canal Sur Radio and Canal Fiesta Radio. History On 28 February 1989 Canal Sur 1 TV was launched as the public broadcaster of the Autonomous Community of Andalucía. This means that it was funded by the regional government of Andalusia. Becoming the fourth Spanish autonomous community to have its own public TV channel after Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia. In its origins, Canal Sur broadcast programming of all kinds, including news, entertainment, cultural, sports and children's content. Canal Sur was launched with the aim of disseminating Andalusian culture, politics and values among its population and to have an alternative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
