Bolivisión La Paz is a

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n television station licensed to

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. Operating on VHF channel 4 (digital channel 33, PSIP 5.1), is an

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 af ...

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 relat ...

. 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 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 B ...

. 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 Canales (the network ABC was affiliated to) was dissolved. The station was acquired by Ernesto Asbún in 1998, moving Bolivisión from channel 2 while enabling

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 cu ...

to get a station in the city.

Technical information

Bolivisión La Paz started its HD signal in 2018. On December 17, 2022, it started broadcasting from a new transmitter and studio complex in

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References

{{La Paz TV Spanish-language television stations Television in Bolivia Television channels and stations established in 1985