Zuliana de Televisión (known as Zuliana TV or ZUTV for short), is a Venezuelan regional television station seen by those living the western

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

n state of

Zulia Zulia State ( es, Estado Zulia, ; Wayuu: ''Mma’ipakat Suuria'') is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest population among Venezuela's states. It ...

. It broadcasts on

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channel 30.

History

ZUTV was inaugurated on June 17, 1991 at precisely six o'clock in the morning. It originally was on the air twelve hours a day and offered a diverse range of programs with the support of

Televen Televen is a private Venezuelan national television network headquartered on the Caracas neighborhood of Horizonte. For this reason it is also called 'Canal de Horizonte'. Televen was inaugurated as the ''TELEVEN Corporation'' (''Corporación TEL ...

and their investors. ZUTV became the 13th regional television station to be created in

and the first station in Venezuela to broadcast with UHF. They originally covered the area west of

Lake Maracaibo Lake Maracaibo (Spanish: Lago de Maracaibo; Anu: Coquivacoa) is a lagoon in northwestern Venezuela, the largest lake in South America and one of the oldest on Earth, formed 36 million years ago in the Andes Mountains. The fault in the northern se ...

(about half of the state). Today they cover the entire state and have their very own television studio. Since their establishment, have had a partnership with local newspaper El Regional del Zulia and the radio station América 95.5 FM. The signal of ZUTV was connected to that of Televen's by means of the satellite Intelsat 6 which meant the station could easily receive and broadcast Televen's signal and vice versa. It should be mentioned that Televen was the first national television station in the history of Venezuela to broadcast live a regional channel's signal. ZUTV now produces its own programming and they claim to be neutral in their political views.

Programming

Trivia

*ZUTV's installations has always been located in Ciudad Ojeda, in the Lagunillas municipality which is located on the eastern coast of Lake Maracaibo. *The original station board of directors included people such as Carlos Gonzalez Mazzei (president), Andrés Finol Wardrop (vice president), and Adolfo Herrera (general manager). *ZUTV has, from the beginning, depended on some of their information from sources such as the AP (

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), Venpres, and

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External links

Official Site
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History

Programming

Trivia

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