Antonio Vodanovic (born March 2, 1949,

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, Chile) is a Chilean television presenter known for being the presenter of

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from 1976 to 2004. From the late 1970s to 1982 he was programming director of

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. In 1982 he renounced that position after an internal conflict in Televisión Nacional de Chile that emerged in the aftermath as consequence of the censorship of ''

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''. On one occasion Vodanovic publicly praised dictator

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and his wife

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, who were in the public, on behalf of "the Chilean youth". Vodanovic was present in the Acto de Chacarillas in 1977, a ritualized pro-Pinochet act reminiscent of

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