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Albavisión
Albavisión (formerly Prolasa and Televideo Services) is a multinational media company based in Miami and owned by controversial Mexican-turned-Guatemalan businessman Remigio Ángel González, operating primarily in Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America. Part of the company's ''modus operandi'' involved the buying of failing television stations in the region, with González having control on a substantial amount of the channel's programming, mainly telenovelas and US feature films bought in block deals for several territories. History Prolasa, S.A. was founded in 1975 and is currently one of Albavisión's figurehead companies, registered in Panama. The current conglomerate was adopted in May 2008, with the name being derived from his wife, Alba Elvira Lorenzana. This also coincided with its first major project in high definition, Copa Centroamericana de Fútbol, to which it acquired the broadcast rights for the region. In the last few years up to 2008, its founder Ángel Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bolivisión
Bolivisión is a commercial Bolivian television station with its main station in La Paz. The channel was launched on June 17, 1997, following the dissolution of Telesistema Boliviano, and later the creation of Unitel and the beginning of its relations with Galavisión. The network is owned by Albavisión since May 2007. History Background On September 28, 1985, América Televisión, a terrestrial television channel owned by Banco Mercantil, was launched on channel 6 in La Paz, the Bolivian capital. With its studios in the Batallón Colorados Building, the station became one of the first private channels in Bolivia. The broadcasts became regular on November 3 the same year. Its owner was Miguel Dueri. With broadcasts lasting 6 hours in its first 2 years of broadcast, its transmission schedules progressively increased to 18 hours a day. América Televisión (unrelated to the Peruvian channel of the same name) was the first private network in the country to broadcast via satellite in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |