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Promec Televisión
Promec Televisión (full name ''Corporación Promotora de Medios de Comunicación Social'') was a Colombian ''programadora''. It operated between 1973 and 1989. History Early years It was founded in October 1972 by several entrepreneurs who included Humberto Arbeláez and Jorge Yarce. It was a non-profit corporation. It began operations in 1973, with its first major success ''Dialogando'', a docu-drama. Though it was new it came out of the ''licitación'' of 1973 with what was then one of Colombian television's prized timeslots: 8pm Thursdays on Canal Uno, Primera Cadena. ''Dialogando'' was so successful it would remain on the air until 1989. In the ''licitación'' of 1976 Promec received 3.5 hours of programming a week, including its first venture into foreign programs. Other early programs were ''Las Señoritas Gutiérrez'', a comedy written by María Victoria de Restrepo and whose family would found its own ''programadora'' in 1979. It competed against Caracol's mainstay Sába ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Programadora
In Television in Colombia, Colombian broadcasting, ''programadoras'' (literally ''programmer'') are companies that produce television programs, especially for the public-commercial Canal Uno (and, until 2003, Canal A/Segunda Cadena). The Colombian television model from 1954 to the late 1990s, known as the ''sistema mixto'' ("mixed system"), relied on ''programadoras'' as the sole producers of programs that aired on the two major channels. Following the introduction of two national private television channels to the country in the late 1990s, the recession of that same time period and a resulting combination of falling ratings and declining advertising revenues, the ''programadoras'' went into a tailspin that led to many closing in bankruptcy or becoming production companies for the private networks. By 2003, only seven ''programadoras'' were left on Canal Uno, later reduced to four. In May 2017, Plural Comunicaciones, a consortium including several former ''programadoras'', took to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inravisión
The Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión (Inravisión) was Colombia's national public broadcasting organization between 1964 and 2004. It was created by Decree 3267 of 20 December 1963, which declared that from 1 April 1964 the country's public radio and television broadcasting service would be provided by Inravisión, "a public company with financial, administrative, and legal autonomy". Among Inravisión's functions were to organize contracts with the ''programadoras'', the companies who produced programs and aired them on the national networks; develop and execute the plans and projects adopted by the Colombian Ministry of Communications; and offer official educational, cultural and informational services through the country's radio and television infrastructure. In 1993, it also assumed the duties of screening programs, which ''programadoras'' were required to send 72 hours in advance, for purposes of determining if the programs were suitable for viewing by minors. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
