This is a list of Spanish television related events in 1997.

Events

* 31 January: The satellite broadcasting platform Vía Digital is launched. * 7 February: Fernando López-Amor is appointed Director General de

RTVE The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, S.A. (; ), known as Radiotelevisión Española or RTVE, is the state-owned public corporation that assumed in 2007 the indirect management of the Spanish public radio and television service know ...

. * 13 March: Talk show ''Tómbola'', debuts in regional channels Canal 9,

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 Telema ...

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 autono ...

, and sets a new and polemic way to approach celebs news. * 24 July:

Telefónica Telefónica, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the world. It provides fixed and mobile telephony, broadba ...

becomes major stateholder of Antena 3. * 15 September: Canal 24 horas News TV Channel is launched. * 2 December: Consuelo Álvarez de Toledo is appointed press ombudsman in Antena 3. * 31 December: Comic duo Martes y Trece star their last show together, before splitting.

Debuts

Television shows

Ending this year

Foreign series debuts in Spain

Deaths

* 30 January – Cayetano Luca de Tena, 80, director. * 22 May –

José Antonio Silva José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

, 59, host. * 5 October – Federico Gallo, 67, Host. * 19 October –

Pilar Miró Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero (20 April 1940 in Madrid – 19 October 1997 in Madrid) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. She was the General Director of RTVE from 1986 to 1989. In the 1990s, she directed the television broadcasts of th ...

, 57, director.

References

{{Years in TV by country, 1997 1997 in Spanish television