Telemetro is a
television network headquartered in
Panama City,
Panama, with repeaters throughout the country. The station broadcasts in
NTSC format and in Panama City also in
DVB-T
DVB-T, short for Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial, is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in Singapore in Febr ...
format. In 1996 Telemetro and
RPC TV
RPC may refer to:
Science and technology
* Rational polynomial coefficient
* Reactive Plastic Curtain, a carbon-dioxide-absorbing device used in some rebreather breathing sets
* Regional Playback Control, a regional lockout technology for DVDs
* ...
merged and formed Corporacion Medcom.
Main programming consists on news, novelas, and local reality shows; it has a direct rivalry with
TVN since it has similar programming.
History
In 1981, Nicolas Gonzalez Revilla founded Telemetro as a metropolitan VHF scrambled
pay-per-view
Pay-per-view (PPV) is a type of pay television or webcast service that enables a viewer to pay to watch individual events via private telecast.
Events can be purchased through a multichannel television platform using their electronic program guid ...
channel, this format was not successful and was replaced with regular broadcasting, by 1983 reached
Colon Province, by 1990 expanded to Central Provinces and finally in 1992, covered
Chiriqui and
Bocas del Toro
Bocas del Toro (; meaning "Mouth of the Bull") is a province of Panama. Its area is 4,643.9 square kilometers, comprising the mainland and nine main islands. The province consists of the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Bahía Almirante (Almirante Bay ...
to have national coverage. The channel in its first year was a subscription channel focused on movies and other cultural programming and broadcast for 6 hours a day without commercial breaks, but this wasn't profitable and thus it expanded its programming to include telenovelas and news shows and it also expanded its broadcasting hours to 20–24 hours a day and added commercial breaks.
Specific programming
News
*Telemetro Reporta Matutino (Morning News): Delia Muñoz, Alvaro Alvarado and Virna Quintero.
*Telemetro Reporta Mediodía (Noon News): Vanessa Calviño and Massiel Rodriguez.
*Telemetro Reporta Estelar (Evening News): Jenia Nenzen and Jose Escobar.
Other Programming
* Tu Mañana (Morning Show)
* Calle 7 (Reality Show)
* Various
Disney TV Series
* Various Disney and Other Companies' Movies
*
La rosa de Guadalupe
''La Rosa de Guadalupe'' ( English title: ''The Rose of Guadalupe'') is a Mexican anthology drama television series created by Carlos Mercado Orduña and produced by Miguel Ángel Herros. The series centers on Mexican Catholic religiosity, specif ...
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Miss Universe
Mall TV
Originally launched in 2005 as a kids programming channel under the brand of Tele 7, In 2011 the channel was relaunched as Mall TV
to feature local shopping stores advertisements, real state development, health clinics and infomercials. The channel was previously only available to Cable Onda customers, which was also owned by Medcom. The channel is also available in many provinces by cable on Cable Onda. In 2017 its over-the-air signal was replaced with Oye TV, a variety channel. It closed in 2020.
References
External links
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{{Panama TV
Television stations in Panama
Mass media in Panama City