The Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión (Inravisión) was

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's national public broadcasting organization between 1964 and 2004. It was created by Decree 3267 of 20 December 1963, which declared that from 1 April 1964 the country's public radio and television broadcasting service would be provided by Inravisión, "a public company with financial, administrative, and legal autonomy". Among Inravisión's functions were to organize contracts with the ''programadoras'', the companies who produced programs and aired them on the national networks; develop and execute the plans and projects adopted by the Colombian Ministry of Communications; and offer official educational, cultural and informational services through the country's radio and television infrastructure. In 1993, it also assumed the duties of screening programs, which ''programadoras'' were required to send 72 hours in advance, for purposes of determining if the programs were suitable for viewing by minors. In the 1990s, Inravisión was wracked by continual technical problems, which included a 30-minute nationwide outage of all three channels in June 1995, described at the time as "the biggest rough patch in Inravisión's 41-year history"; commercials that didn't air in correct color; signal reception deficiencies, even in major cities such as

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; poorly calibrated cameras; leaks in the studio buildings; commercials airing for the incorrect newscast; and a 77-minute outage of all three channels in December 1995. Inravisión was

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at the end of 2004, during the first administration (2002–2006) of

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. Contributing factors to the decision included the company's growing pension liabilities (600 billion Colombian pesos),Luz Monroy, Martha."Inravisión, qué sigue ahora." ''El Tiempo'' 27 October 2004
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/ref> its out-of-date technology, and the ''programadoras'' crisis, which left

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in a failed financial state and forced the state to operate Canal A as

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. At its closure, Inravisión had 411 employees.

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, the state ''programadora'', was also liquidated. It was succeeded by Radio Televisión Nacional de Colombia (RTVC).

Slogans

*1991-1993 La imagen de la televisión en Colombia (the image of TV in

) *1994 - 40 años haciendo el camino para los colombianos (40 years paving the way for Colombians) *1995-2001 Inravision al %100 es mas! (Inravision at 100% is more!) *2001-2004 siempre al aire (always on air) *2004 - 50 años de televisión en Colombia (50 years of television in

)

References

External links

Inravisión, Web Archive
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