La 1 (, ''The One'') is a Spanish
free-to-air television channel owned and operated by
Televisión Española (TVE), the television division of state-owned
public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española
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 kno ...
(RTVE). It is the corporation's
flagship
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television channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstream and
generalist programming, including ''
Telediario'' news bulletins,
prime time
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drama, cinema and entertainment, and major
breaking news, sports and special events.
History
It was launched on 28 October 1956 as the first
regular television service in Spain. It was the only one until 15 November 1966, when TVE launched a
second channel. As TVE held a
monopoly on television broadcasting in the country, they were the only television channels until the first regional public television station was launched on 16 February 1983, when
Euskal Telebista started broadcasting in the
Basque Country
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* French Basque Country o ...
.
Commercial television was launched on 25 January 1990, when
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started broadcasting nationwide.
The channel was initially simply referred to as "Televisión Española" until the launch of its second channel in 1966. Since then it received other names, such as "Primera Cadena", "Primer Programa", "TVE-1", "TVE1" or "La Primera" until it adopted its current name "La 1" (''La uno'') in 2008. Its headquarters and main production centre is
Prado del Rey
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History
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in
Pozuelo de Alarcón. Although almost all its programming is in Spanish and is the same for all of Spain, TVE has territorial centres in every
autonomous community and produces and broadcasts some local programming in
regional variations in each of them, such as
local news bulletins, in the corresponding
co-official language.
On 1 January 2010, TVE stopped broadcasting
commercial advertising on all its channels, with only
self promotions, institutional campaigns and
sponsorships allowed.
With analog service discontinued on 3 April 2010, it have only been available free-to-air through the
digital terrestrial television (DTT) ever since. La 1 and Teledeporte started its DDT HD resolution simulcasts on 31 December 2013, initially in
720p and later in
1080i
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.
Logos and identities
File:1er logo TVE.svg, 1956 to 1962
File:Logo de TVE (1960'-1991).svg, 1962 to 1983
File:Logo TVE--1 (1982-1991).svg, 1982 to 1990
File:Logo TVE-1 1984.svg, 1984
File:Logo TVE-1 1990.svg, 1989 to 1991
File:Logo TVE-1 1991.png, 1991 to 1992
File:TVE1 La Primera.png, 1992 to 1994
File:TVE1 (1992-2002).svg, 1994 to 2003
File:TVE1 logo.svg, 2003 to 2007[The channel bug had the TVE branding at the bottom and three-dimensional effects.]
File:Logo TVE-1.svg, In use since 2008
References
External links
Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:1 (Spanish TV channel)
RTVE channels
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Television channels and stations established in 1956
Spanish-language television stations
1956 establishments in Spain