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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] |
Bolivisión Santa Cruz
Bolivisión Santa Cruz is a Bolivian television station licensed to Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Operating on VHF channel 4 (digital channel 28, PSIP 4.1), it is both an owned-and-operated station and the flagship station of Bolivisión, a network owned by Albavisión, in turn owned by Remigio Ángel González. The licensee for the department operates under the name of Galavisión S.R.L., which also oversees two relay stations in Montero on channel 3 and Warnes on channel 33. History Galavisión started broadcasting on channel 4 in 1984, like most of the early private television stations, it relied heavily on piracy of foreign content, canned, with its audience preferring entertainment and mainly seen as elitist. During the 1980s, the station had Gloria Morales, who moved from Red Uno Santa Cruz, Cruceña de Televisión, as its announcer. In the mid-90s, the station produced a variety show called ''Garabato'', as well as TV movies and dramas produced by Safipro. In 1996-1997, due to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bolivisión La Paz
Bolivisión La Paz is a Bolivian television station licensed to Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Operating on VHF channel 4 (digital channel 33, PSIP 5.1), is an owned-and-operated station of Bolivisión. The station uses the Antena Uno Cochabamba license. History América Televisión (unrelated to the Peruvian channel of the same name) started broadcasting test signals on September 28, 1985 and went regular on November 3, being founded by Banco Mercantil Santa Cruz. The station was broadcast on channel 6, and was owned by Miguel Dueri, owner of the Dueri y Cía record label, with assistance from Rolando and Gonzalo Chiappe. The station was initially branded as ATC 6 (América Televisión Color). The Chiappes assisted in the establishment of Paceña de Televisión (channel 9), but quit early on in order to help establish ATC. Carlos Mesa, who in 1990 founded PAT, worked as a news editor between 1986 and 1987. In the mid-90s, during a massive network realignment, Asociación Boliviana de C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Red ATB
''Red ATB'' (Asociación Teledifusora Boliviana) is a Bolivian free-to-air television channel. Its origins date back to 20 October 1984 in La Paz, when Paceña de Television (Channel 9) began broadcasting. In the late 1980s the name was changed to ATB. The channel is one of the largest networks in Bolivia. History Background In the 1970s Hugo Banzer, then president of the Republic of Bolivia, appointed Raúl Garafulic Gutiérrez as general manager of Bolivian TV, who owned most of the shares of the Pucro mining group. It was Garafulic's first contact with the media, which prepared him to own his own TV channel. In 1984 Garafulic created the Illimani de Comunicaciones company to exploit media outlets. on 20 July 1983, Channel 9 of La Paz, then relayer of Televisión Boliviana. It was in April 1984 that the state media monopoly was broken by the opening two channels in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra: Universal Richards channel 5 (also known as Canal 5 Tele-Sat) and Cruceña ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Red PAT
PAT (Periodistas Asociados Televisión, literally Associate Journalists Television), also called Red PAT, is a Bolivian over-the-air television channel founded as a production company in August 1990 by the politician and journalist Carlos Mesa. It became a channel in 1998. History As a production company On August 1, 1990, Carlos Mesa, Mario Espinoza, Amalia Pandohttps://www.historia.com.bo/biografia/amalia-pando-vega Amalia Pando and Ximena Valdivia created the PAT company, initially as a news producer. The idea originated when at Telesistema Boliviano, Pando, Mesa and Espinoza, agreed to establish their own news production company (the first of its kind in Bolivia); Valdivia provided the loans. The independent news production company produced two newscasts: 2nd Edition at noon and 3rd Edition at night. The name 1st Edition was reserved until the birth of the channel. The first channel was Canal Once, under the direction of René Meyer, broadcasting began on September 15 of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bolivia TV
Televisión Boliviana (Bolivia TV) is the first television station of Bolivia and serves the only means of television communication from the government. The channel was established in August 1969 under the government of Luis Adolfo Siles after years of planning by the government of then-recently deceased René Barrientos."Época Republicana (1900–2000)" – Gobierno de Bolivia (Retrieved on September 27, 2008) It is a state-owned broadcasting network. Created to replace the previous public station Televisión Boliviana or TVB, it was the audience leader as it was the only legal television station in the country until 1984, when private television stations were legalized in Bolivian territory. The station claims to be plural and the only media outlet reaches out to the whole po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Unitel Bolivia
UNITEL (UNIVERSAL DE TELEVISIÓN) is a Bolivian commercial television network headquartered in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, La Paz and Cochabamba, Bolivia. It was founded in 1987 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra as Teleoriente, which in 1997 created the current network and bought two Telesistema Boliviano stations. It is owned by businessman Osvaldo Monasterio Nieme. The company broadcasts sports, entertainment, political programs, and daily news programs nationwide in the South American country. As of 2020, it claimed to have the largest viewing audience. The station is owned by Empresa de Comunicaciones del Oriente (Ecor), Ltda., which also owns two radio stations, the Bolivian branch of Radio Disney Latin America, Radio Disney and since 2023, Eres Radio, specialized in love songs. The legal name of the main Unitel station is still Canal 9 Teleoriente. Grupo Monasterio owns 100% of the shares of Ecor. History Telesistema Boliviano (TSB) was founded on November 22, 1983, as the first c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Commercial Broadcasting
Commercial broadcasting (also called private broadcasting) is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media, as opposed to state sponsorship, for example. It was the United States' first model of radio (and later television) during the 1920s, in contrast with the public television model during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, which prevailed worldwide, except in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil, until the 1980s. Features Advertising Commercial broadcasting is primarily based on the practice of airing radio advertisements and television advertisements for profit. This is in contrast to public broadcasting, which receives government subsidies and usually does not have paid advertising interrupting the show. During pledge drives, some public broadcasters will interrupt shows to ask for donations. In the United States, non-commercial educational (NCE) television and radio exist in the form of community radio; however, pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cochabamba
Cochabamba (; ) is a city and municipality in central Bolivia in a valley in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital (political), capital of the Cochabamba Department and the list of cities in Bolivia, fourth largest city in Bolivia, with a population of 630,587 according to the 2012 Bolivian census. Its name is from a compound of the Quechua languages, Quechua words ''qucha'' "lake" and ''pampa'', "open plain." Residents of the city and the surrounding areas are commonly referred to as ''cochalas'' or, more formally, ''cochabambinos''. It is known as the "City of Eternal Spring" or "The Garden City" because of its spring-like temperatures all year round. It is also known as "La Llajta," which means "town" in Quechua. It is the largest urban center between the higher capital of La Paz and Santa Cruz de la Sierra in the tropical plains of the east. It sits south-west of the Tunari mountains, and north of the foothills of the Valle Alto. In antiquity, the area featured numero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Remigio Ángel González
Remigio Ángel González (Higueras, Nuevo León, June 14, 1944) is a Mexican-born owner of the Latin American media network Albavisión. He has lived in Miami since 1987. The network (previously named Televideo Services) is named for his wife Alba Elvira Lorenzana, who is from Guatemala. González was estimated to be worth $350m in 2002,Will Weissert, Associated Press, 9 June 2002Domination of Latin airwaves has 'Ghost' scaring his critics/ref> and by some accounts is now worth $2bn. González has a conservative political stance, but he aims to keep a low profile and cooperate with host country governments. As part of this strategy, he is said to have modified the editorial lines of his stations, particularly in Guatemala and Nicaragua, to accommodate government preferences. Albavisión The foundation for the Albavisión network, created in May 2008, was laid in 1981 when González acquired his two Guatemalan television stations (Canal 3 and 7). At the time, González was a sales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Oruro
Oruro (Hispanicized spelling) or Uru Uru is a city in Bolivia with a population of 264,683 (2012 calculation), about halfway between La Paz and Sucre in the Altiplano, approximately above sea level. It is Bolivia's fifth-largest city by population, after Santa Cruz de la Sierra, El Alto, La Paz, and Cochabamba. It is the capital of the Department of Oruro and the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oruro. Oruro has been subject to cycles of boom and bust owing to its dependence on the mining industry, notably tin, tungsten, silver and copper. History The city was founded on November 1, 1606, by Don Manuel Castro de Padilla as a silver-mining center in the Urus region. At the time it was named Real Villa de San Felipe de Austria, after the Spanish monarch Philip III. It thrived for a while, but it was eventually abandoned as the silver mines became exhausted. Oruro was reestablished by European Bolivians in the late nineteenth century as a tin mining center. It was named a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sucre
Sucre (; ) is the ''de jure'' capital city of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the sixth most populous city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of . This relatively high altitude gives the city a subtropical highland climate with cool temperatures year-round. Over the centuries, the city has received various names, including La Plata, Charcas, and Chuquisaca. Today, the region is of predominantly Quechua background, with some Aymara communities and influences. Sucre holds major national importance and is an educational and government center, as well as the location of the Bolivian Supreme Court. Its pleasant climate and low crime rates have made the city popular amongst foreigners and Bolivians alike. Notably, Sucre contains one of the best preserved Hispanic colonial and republican historic city centres in the Western Hemisphere - similar to cities such as Cuzco and Quito. This architectural herita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Trinidad, Beni
Trinidad, officially La Santísima Trinidad (), is a city in Bolivia, capital of the department of Beni. The population is 130,000 (2010 official estimate). While historically a peripheral city in Bolivia, Trinidad is today an important center for the Bolivian Bovine industry and has enjoyed a modest economic boom in recent years and has an HDI index of above 0.700. While technically on the periphery of the Amazon rainforest, Trinidad is a wet monsoonal location that is connected by the Mamoré river to the greater Amazon Basin. While wet enough to be a rainforest in total annual precipitation, dry monsoonal weather separates the year into dry and wet seasons as is common throughout much of the greater Amazon basin, particularly to the southeast. Trinidad is a growing city of medium size, and while not an important national center, has grown in importance for the local economy of the Bolivian orient north of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The city is also home to the Bolivian Navy fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
