Canal 4, previously known as ''Monte Carlo Televisión,'' is a
television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth ...
located in
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
,
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
''.'' Owned by Grupo Monte Carlo, it is the second oldest television channel in the country, beginning its broadcasts on April 23, 1961.
Canal 10 started on December 7, 1956.
Canal 12 was the third channel, May 2, 1962, and
Canal 5, state-owned, was the last station to start broadcasting, on June 19, 1963.
This TV station, originally named ''Monte Carlo Televisión Canal 4'', was initiated by Carlos Romay, entrepreneur who had founded
Radio Monte Carlo
Radio Monte Carlo (RMC) is the name of radio stations owned and managed by several different entities:
* RMC (France) is a French-speaking station, broadcasting in France and Monaco owned by NextRadioTV.
**RMC Sport, a French bouquet of paid T ...
in 1924, and his wife, María Elvira Salvo, whose family had built the iconic
Palacio Salvo
Palacio Salvo ( en, Salvo Palace) is a building at the intersection of 18 de Julio Avenue and Plaza Independencia in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was designed by the architect Mario Palanti, an Italian immigrant living in Buenos Aires, who used a simil ...
in Montevideo.
In 1961, from a set that was built in downtown Montevideo, at exactly 9 p.m., Uruguayan viewers had the chance to tune ''Casino Monte Carlo'', a variety show that became the first program to be aired in the new station.
After almost 5 years of having only one station in the Uruguayan TV market, Canal 4 decided to launch by investing heavily on regional stars and international TV series. In addition, Canal 4 introduced
videotape
Videotape is magnetic tape used for storing video and usually sound in addition. Information stored can be in the form of either an analog or digital signal. Videotape is used in both video tape recorders (VTRs) and, more commonly, videocassett ...
machines in the Uruguayan television industry. Before that, because of the absence of such equipment, all programming was live, including the commercial breaks.
![Telenochearchivofoto noticia](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Telenochearchivofoto_noticia.jpg)
On July 20, 1969, the day
Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
...
and
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin (; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission. As the Lunar Module ''Eagle'' pilot on the 1969 A ...
landed on the Moon during the
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, an ...
mission, Carlos Giacosa, main anchor of Telenoche 4 at that time, surprised everyone by conducting a live interview, by phone, with
Wernher von Braun
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun ( , ; 23 March 191216 June 1977) was a German and American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, as well as the leading figure in the develop ...
. Giacosa had visited
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
years before, and he had kept a business card with the phone number of his secretary.
Fernando Vilar was the main anchor for TeleNoche 4, the station's signature
news show
News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or televis ...
, during 22 uninterrupted years, from 1993 to 2015.
During 2016, Uruguay celebrated 60 years of television in the country, which prompted many newspapers and magazines to feature special articles to highlight the occasion.
In 2017, Canal 4 decided to join the regional trend to feature
Turkish television series
Turkish television series ( tr, Türk dizileri) has grown radically since the 2000s. Most dramas reflect Turkish culture and are the country's most well known economic and cultural exports. Turkey is the world's fastest growing television series e ...
, a genre that is highly popular in South America, at the 11 p.m.
time slot
Broadcast programming is the practice of organizing or ordering (scheduling) of broadcast media shows, typically radio and television, in a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or season-long schedule.
Modern broadcasters use broadcast automation ...
. Telenoche 4 decided to upgrade its sets, graphic packages, and style, while no longer using its main
newsroom
A newsroom is the central place where journalists—reporters, editors, and producers, associate producers, news anchors, news designers, photojournalists, videojournalists, associate editor, residence editor, visual text editor, Desk Head, s ...
set, called ''Centro Monte Carlo de Noticias''.
During 2019, while
rebranding
Rebranding is a marketing strategy in which a new name, term, symbol, design, concept or combination thereof is created for an established brand with the intention of developing a new, differentiated identity in the minds of consumers, investors ...
the station as ''Canal 4'' after almost two decades of using ''Monte Carlo Televisión'', the channel started airing ''El Diario del Lunes'', a weekly show with soccer legends
Fernando Álvez
Fernando Harry Álvez Mosquera (born September 4, 1959 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for the Uruguay national team and several clubs in Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina.
Álvez obtai ...
and
Jorge Seré
Jorge Fernando Seré Dulcini (born 9 July 1961) is a retired Uruguayan footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Seré won several titles with Nacional, including the 1988 Intercontinental Cup where he saved four penalties as Nacional ...
, which focuses on the
Uruguayan League and the
national soccer team.
In 2020, Canal 4 launched its international channel, ''Canal 4 Internacional'', available for subscription only, outside of Uruguayan soil, via
streaming
Streaming media is multimedia that is delivered and consumed in a continuous manner from a source, with little or no intermediate storage in network elements. ''Streaming'' refers to the delivery method of content, rather than the content it ...
.
Current programming
Original programming
* ''Santa misa'' (1961–present)
* ''
Telenoche
Telenoche is an Argentine TV news program. It is broadcast from Mondays to Fridays at 8:00pm in eltrece channel and it is presented by Nelson Castro and Dominique Metzger.
History
It began broadcasting on January 3, 1966, first at 11:00PM (co ...
'' (1968–present)
* ''En Foco'' (2005–present)
* ''Agitando una más'' (2009–present)
* ''Algo contigo'' (2011–present)
* ''Santo & Seña'' (2012–present)
* ''
Todas las voces'' (2005–present)
* ''De la tierra al plato'' (2017–present)
* ''Bien con Lourdes'' (2018–present)
* ''
Vespertinas'' (2018–2021)
* ''
Vamo arriba'' (2018–present)
* ''De película'' (2018–present)
* ''El diario del lunes'' (2019–present)
* ''Reenviado'' (2019–present)
* ''
Buen día'' (2020–present)
* ''Buen vivir'' (2020–present)
* ''Zoom Internacional'' (2020–present)
* ''Únicos'' (2020–present)
* ''
Los ocho escalones'' (2021–present)
*''Zoom de noticias'' (2021–present)
*''Cena con mamá'' (2021–present)
*''
Bake Off Uruguay'' (2021–present)
Acquired programming
Drama
* ''
The Good Doctor'' (2017) (as ''Un médico brillante'') (2020–present)
* ''
Dudaktan Kalbe
''Dudaktan Kalbe'' ("From the Lips to the Heart") is a Turkish television series. It stars Burak Hakkı and Aslı Tandoğan. It is the fifth adaptation of Reşat Nuri Güntekin's famous novel, ''Dudaktan Kalbe''. He was one of the most popular wr ...
'' (2007) (as ''De los labios al corazón'') (2020–present)
* ''
Güllerin Savaşı'' (2020) (as ''Guerra de Rosas'') (2021–present)
* ''Ufak Tefek Cinayetler'' (2017) (as ''Traición Secreta'') (2021–present)
Logos
File:Logo Canal 4 1961-1969.png, 1961–69
File:Canal 4 Monte Carlo TV.png, 1969–73
File:Logo 1973.png, 1973–78
File:Canal 4 Logo.jpg, 1978–80
File:Logo Canal 4 1981-1990.png, 1981–90
File:Monte Carlo Televisi% 3Fn % 282001% 2C Azul% 29.png, 2001–06
File:Logo Monte Carlo TV 2006-2009.jpg, 2006–08
References
External links
Official website
Television channels and stations established in 1961
1961 establishments in Uruguay
Television in Uruguay
Mass media in Montevideo
Television networks in Uruguay
Television stations in Uruguay
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