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Bolivisión La Paz
Bolivisión La Paz is a Bolivian television station licensed to Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Operating on VHF channel 4 (digital channel 33, PSIP 5.1), is an owned-and-operated station of Bolivisión. The station uses the Antena Uno Cochabamba license. History América Televisión (unrelated to the Peruvian channel of the same name) started broadcasting test signals on September 28, 1985 and went regular on November 3, being founded by Banco Mercantil Santa Cruz. The station was broadcast on channel 6, and was owned by Miguel Dueri, owner of the Dueri y Cía record label, with assistance from Rolando and Gonzalo Chiappe. The station was initially branded as ATC 6 (América Televisión Color). The Chiappes assisted in the establishment of Paceña de Televisión (channel 9), but quit early on in order to help establish ATC. Carlos Mesa, who in 1990 founded PAT, worked as a news editor between 1986 and 1987. In the mid-90s, during a massive network realignment, Asociación Boliviana de C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivisión
Bolivisión is a commercial Bolivian television station with its main station in La Paz. The channel was launched on June 17, 1997, following the dissolution of Telesistema Boliviano, and later the creation of Unitel and the beginning of its relations with Galavisión. The network is owned by Albavisión since May 2007. History Background On September 28, 1985, América Televisión, a terrestrial television channel owned by Banco Mercantil, was launched on channel 6 in La Paz, the Bolivian capital. With its studios in the Batallón Colorados Building, the station became one of the first private channels in Bolivia. The broadcasts became regular on November 3 the same year. Its owner was Miguel Dueri. With broadcasts lasting 6 hours in its first 2 years of broadcast, its transmission schedules progressively increased to 18 hours a day. América Televisión (unrelated to the Peruvian channel of the same name) was the first private network in the country to broadcast via satellite in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Paz
La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Aymara language, Aymara: Chuqi Yapu ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With 755,732 residents as of 2024, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities by population, third-most populous city in Bolivia. Its metropolitan area, which is formed by La Paz, El Alto, Achocalla Municipality, Achocalla, Viacha Municipality, Viacha, and Mecapaca Municipality, Mecapaca makes up the second most populous urban area in Bolivia, with a population of 2.2 million, after Santa Cruz de la Sierra with a population of 2.3 million. It is also the capital of the La Paz Department, Bolivia, La Paz Department. The city, in west-central Bolivia southeast of Lake Titicaca, is set in a canyon created by the Choqueyapu River. It is in a bowl-like depression, part of the Amazon basin, surrounded by the high mountains of the Altiplano. Overlooking the city is the triple-peaked Illimani. Its peaks are always snow-cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, warm valleys, high-altitude Andean plateaus, and snow-capped peaks, encompassing a wide range of climates and biomes across its regions and cities. It includes part of the Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland in the world, along its eastern border. It is bordered by Brazil to the Bolivia-Brazil border, north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, Argentina to the Argentina-Bolivia border, south, Chile to the Bolivia–Chile border, southwest, and Peru to the west. The seat of government is La Paz, which contains the executive, legislative, and electoral branches of government, while the constitutional capital is Sucre, the seat of the judiciary. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Geog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Cruz De La Sierra
Santa Cruz de la Sierra (; ), commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the largest city in Bolivia and the capital of the Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia), Santa Cruz department. Situated on the Pirai River (Bolivia), Pirai River in the eastern Tropical Lowlands of Bolivia, the Santa Cruz de la Sierra Metropolitan Region is the most populous urban agglomeration in Bolivia with an estimated population of 2.4 million in 2020. It is formed out of a conurbation of seven Santa Cruz municipalities: Santa Cruz de la Sierra, La Guardia, Bolivia, La Guardia, Warnes, Bolivia, Warnes, Cotoca, El Torno, Santa Cruz, El Torno, Porongo, and Montero, Bolivia, Montero. The city was first founded in 1561 by Spanish explorer Ñuflo de Chavez about east of its current location, and was moved several times until it was finally established on the Piray River, Pirai River in the late 16th century. For much of its history, Santa Cruz was mostly a small outpost town, and even after Bolivia gained its independenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owned-and-operated Station
In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as an O&O) usually refers to a television or radio station owned by the network with which it is associated. This distinguishes such a station from an network affiliate, affiliate, which is independently owned and carries network programming by contract. The concept of an O&O is clearly defined in the United States and Canada (and to some extent, several other countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Argentina and Japan), where network-owned stations had historically been the exception rather than the rule. In such places, broadcasting licenses are generally issued on a local (rather than national) basis, and there is (or was) some sort of regulatory mechanism in place to prevent any company (including a broadcasting network) from owning stations in every market in the country. In other parts of the world (France, Italy, Spain, Chile, Peru, Uruguay) many television networks were gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banco Mercantil Santa Cruz
Banco Mercantil Santa Cruz S.A. Trade name, doing business as Mercantil Santa Cruz (abbreviated as BMSC) is a Bolivian bank and financial services company with headquarters in La Paz. As of 2015, Banco Mercantil Santa Cruz is the largest bank in Bolivia by assets. It is a full-service corporation that provides a wide range of financial products and services to an individual and corporate client base through a national network of operating 93 branches, more than 350 ATMs, call centers, and online and mobile banking platforms. Banco Mercantil Santa Cruz was created in 2006 by the merger of Banco Mercantil and Banco Santa Cruz, which began operations in 1905 and 1966 respectively. History Banco Mercantil The history of Banco Mercantil Santa Cruz dates back to December 11, 1905, when Simón Iturri Patiño, Simón I. Patiño, a Bolivian magnate who was among the world's wealthiest people at the time of his death, founded Banco Mercantil. Its headquarters were established in Oruro, Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red PAT
PAT (Periodistas Asociados Televisión, literally Associate Journalists Television), also called Red PAT, is a Bolivian over-the-air television channel founded as a production company in August 1990 by the politician and journalist Carlos Mesa. It became a channel in 1998. History As a production company On August 1, 1990, Carlos Mesa, Mario Espinoza, Amalia Pandohttps://www.historia.com.bo/biografia/amalia-pando-vega Amalia Pando and Ximena Valdivia created the PAT company, initially as a news producer. The idea originated when at Telesistema Boliviano, Pando, Mesa and Espinoza, agreed to establish their own news production company (the first of its kind in Bolivia); Valdivia provided the loans. The independent news production company produced two newscasts: 2nd Edition at noon and 3rd Edition at night. The name 1st Edition was reserved until the birth of the channel. The first channel was Canal Once, under the direction of René Meyer, broadcasting began on September 15 of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unitel La Paz
Unitel La Paz is the Unitel owned-and-operated station for the city of La Paz, capital of Bolivia. The station was the generating station of the former Telesistema Boliviano network, disbanded in the late 90s. The station is available nationwide on Inter Satelital, alongside the Santa Cruz station. History Telesistema Boliviano (TSB), the initial licensee, was founded on November 22, 1983, as the first commercial television company in Bolivia, granting the license to operate in La Paz on channel 2. The channel was the opposite of ATB (channel 9) in some way, as the channel provided "quality programming" over political preferences. Experimental broadcasts started on February 12, 1985, before becoming regular on April 14, 1985, being owned by Antonio Maldonado. On weekdays the channel broadcast for seventeen hours on average (7am to 12am) and twelve on weekends (11am to 11pm). The station's owner was Antonio Maldonado, while its administration was up to brothers Ángel Carlos and R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unitel Bolivia
UNITEL (UNIVERSAL DE TELEVISIÓN) is a Bolivian commercial television network headquartered in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, La Paz and Cochabamba, Bolivia. It was founded in 1987 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra as Teleoriente, which in 1997 created the current network and bought two Telesistema Boliviano stations. It is owned by businessman Osvaldo Monasterio Nieme. The company broadcasts sports, entertainment, political programs, and daily news programs nationwide in the South American country. As of 2020, it claimed to have the largest viewing audience. The station is owned by Empresa de Comunicaciones del Oriente (Ecor), Ltda., which also owns two radio stations, the Bolivian branch of Radio Disney Latin America, Radio Disney and since 2023, Eres Radio, specialized in love songs. The legal name of the main Unitel station is still Canal 9 Teleoriente. Grupo Monasterio owns 100% of the shares of Ecor. History Telesistema Boliviano (TSB) was founded on November 22, 1983, as the first c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Alto
El Alto (Spanish for "The Heights") is the List of Bolivian cities by population, second-largest city in Bolivia, located adjacent to La Paz in Pedro Domingo Murillo Province on the Altiplano highlands. El Alto is today one of Bolivia's fastest-growing urban centers, with an estimated population of 943,558 in 2020. It is also the List of highest large cities, highest major city in the world, with an average elevation of . The El Alto–La Paz metropolitan area, formed by La Paz, El Alto, Achocalla Municipality, Achocalla, Viacha Municipality, Viacha, and Mecapaca Municipality, Mecapaca, constitutes the most populous urban area of Bolivia, with a population of about 2.2 million. The city is rapidly developing, although significant challenges with substandard infrastructure and utilities remain, especially in the outlying areas. The construction of an Mi Teleférico, elaborate cable car system connected El Alto directly with central La Paz, dramatically easing transportation into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish-language Television Stations
Spanish () or Castilian () is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with 483 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 558 million speakers total, including second-language speakers. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries, as well as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Spanish is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language. The country with the largest population of native speakers is Mexico. Spanish is part of the Ibero-Romance language group, in which the language is also known as ''Castilian'' (). The group evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In Bolivia
Television in Bolivia arrived in 1967 and is one of the media that integrates the national population. Currently there are 185 stations or television stations in the national territory, most of which are installed in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra with 37 television media outlets. Currently there are 8 networks that cover the entire national area. There are also themed and cable channels. History Early conception In May 1961, the Bolivian government set up Televisión Boliviana (Televibol), a private company set to exploit television signals in the city of La Paz. Televibol also had plans to launch stations in other parts of the country and had the possibility of selling and servicing equipment once television launched. The absence of television in Bolivia until 1969 was derived mainly from the extant limitations of Bolivian radio, which had a lack of money and manpower. Communication problems between speakers of Spanish and speakers of native languages caused a language barri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
