''Noticias Caracol'' (until 9 October 2007 ''Caracol Noticias'') is the name for all the national newscast from the news division of

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which carries the same name. It is broadcast four times on weekdays and twice on weekends. In January 2015 the new director is Juan Roberto Vargas and the second director is Alberto Medina Lopez. Before becoming a network, Caracol Televisión produced the morning newscast ''7:30 Caracol'' in the mid-1990s. Several well-known Colombian

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s, such as Claudia Palacios, Érika Fontalvo, and María Cristina Uribe were also news presenters of ''Caracol Noticias''.

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was its director until March 2002. The newsroom and studio was built in nine months before ''Caracol Noticias first airing, on 10 July 1998.

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company Imageneering acted as a consultant. All ''Noticias Caracol'' newscasts are also aired live on Caracol TV Internacional. It is currently the most watched newscast in Colombia.

Sections

''Noticias Caracol'' newscasts are divided in sections, grouped in three blocks: "serious" news (regional, national, world news, weather, health), sports, and entertainment. For the world news, ''Noticias Caracol'' has signed some agreements with services such as APTN,

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. ''Noticias Caracol'' is also part of the ''Alianza Informativa Latinoamericana'' (AIL), with ATV (

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). This alliance allows ''Noticias Caracol'' to use the services of journalists working for the member networks as

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s in their respective countries, also the AIL allows ''Noticias Caracol'' to use all the technical resources of the other networks to provide a better and faster response to the news events. The AIL also has built its own news agency, where all the networks provide the most important news events in their own countries and feed them to Caracol TV, where they are edited and rebroadcast by satellite to all the members of this alliance. Since September 2012, Caracol Television has become an ENEX (European News Exchange) an alliance that started in Europe 20 years ago, which has more that 42 television stations (Europe, Asia and Americas). Some of the stories are available at its website as

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, as well as at ''

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s website. Both media outlets are owned by

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Weekdays

The 5:30 a.m. newscast, presented by Catalina Gomez Sanchez and Juan Diego Alvira, focuses on national news—most of them from the day before—, sports, regional news, world news, and entertainment. On this newscast, guests are invited to the

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ed by the presenters. It includes a

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, supported by IDEAM, Colombia's meteorological institute, and a section named ''¿Qué pasó con?'', where viewers can learn what happened with an old story previously covered on the newscast. The newscast currently airs from 5:30-8:30 a.m. The 12:30 midday newscast, presented by Mónica Jaramillo, Vanessa de la Torre and Mábel Lara, lasts one hour, but until early 2011, when a new season of '' El precio es correcto'' premiered, was the longest of all (it ended around 15:00). The newscast includes national, world and sports news, as well as a

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section, in charge by doctor Fernanda Hernández, ''Con-sumo cuidado'' (a section on rights of the consumers), ''Ojo ciudadano'' (a section with denounces submitted by viewers), and ''Caracol más cerca'', where a journalist travels around the country in order to show its diversity. The entertainment block is known as ''Del otro mundo''. It airs from 12:30-3:15 p.m. The 7:00 p.m. newscast is ''Noticias Caracol'' flagship

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, presented by Jorge Alfredo Vargas and

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, where the main events, stories and developments of the day are summarized. It has no health section but it does include a ''Caracol más cerca'' abridged section, and ''Código Caracol'', hosted by Mábel Lara, where some political events and gossip are revealed. It airs from 7:00-8:00 p.m. The 11:30 p.m. newscast lasts 30 minutes and is presented by Alejandra Giraldo or Jennifer Montoya. It includes a

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section called ''Sala múltiple'' presented by Lina María Arbeláez, instead the entertainment block, and a review of ''

s main headlines for the next day. Its broadcasting time had been progressively moved from 21:30 to 22:00, 22:30, 23:00, 23:45, and midnight. It returned to the 22:00 time slot in January 2008 but it was moved half-hour later since 23 June 2008, and again in 2011 to 22:45. Currently, it airs as ''Ultima Edicion'' from 11:30 p.m.-12:00 a.m.

Weekends

The ''Noticias Caracol'' 12:30 midday and 7:00 p.m. newscasts on weekends are presented By Alejandra Giraldo and Jennifer Montoya. The 12:30 newscast was revamped since 18 April 2009, including, besides the news, specialized sections in law (''En todo su derecho'', by Silvia Corzo and later by Paola Bermúdez), technology (''Click'', by Juan Ignacio Velásquez), cinema (by Germán Espinel), cooking (''2 x 3'', by Pilar Schmitt), health (by Fernanda Hernández), music (by Adriana Tono), and culture (a weekend edition of ''Sala múltiple'', by Lina María Arbeláez). The midday newscast currently airs from 12:30-2:00 p.m. The 7:00 p.m. newscast tends to follow the three-block rule more conventionally. It includes a brief segment reviewing the main headlines for the following day’s edition of the ''El Espectador'' newspaper. Just like weeknights, it also airs from 7:00-8:00 p.m.

On-air staff

Current anchors

– Weeknight co-anchor (1995–present) *

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– weeknight co-anchor (2006–present) * Juan Diego Alvira – first edition co-anchor (2011–present) * Catalina Gómez — first edition co-anchor (2013–present) * Alejandra Giraldo — ''Ultima Edición'' anchor (2016–present) * Juana "Juanita" Gómez — Weekend edition co-anchor (2017–present) * Daniela Pachón — Weekend edition co-anchor (2017–present)

Previous anchors

* Mábel Lara — anchor (based-on

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) —previous first edition co-anchor— (2008–2017) * Jennifer Montoya — weekend & ''Ultima Edición'' co-anchor (2015–2017) * Silvia Corzo (2002–2011) * Inés María Zabaraín (1999–2011) * Claudia Palacios (1998–2004) * Isaac Nessim – weeknight co-anchor (1998–2006) * María Cristina Uribe – weeknight co-anchor (1998–2001)

Alianza Informativa Latinoamericana

* : CN23 and

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* : Noticias SIN - Color Visión * :

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* : Canal 10 * : TVN * :

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* : TeleCuraçao

References

External links

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