Jorge Barón Televisión is a Colombian ''

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'' on

Canal Uno Canal 1 (; pronounced "Canal Uno" () is a Colombian state-owned television channel. It is owned by the Government of Colombia and managed by Phoenix Media, a private company. From 1957 to 2017, the channel was administered by private programming ...

and

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, most popularly known for its shows El Show de las Estrellas, Telepaís and 20/20. It was founded by

Jorge Barón Jorge Eliécer Barón Ortíz (born Jorge Eliécer Varón Ortíz 29 June 1948 in Ibagué) is a Colombian television presenter, media personality and businessman. By the mid-1980s, he was already a media sensation in Colombia and was broadcasting ...

on May 24, 1969. In 1989, it acquired the rights to show that year's

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. In that same year i record the program ''Embajadores de la música colombiana'' where they performed a concert called ''Colombia Te Quiero'' that developed in the

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attended by 30,000 Colombians. Since the arrival of private channels in Colombian television in 1998, it has decreased its output. As of 2020, El Show de las Estrellas currently airs on Canal RCN.

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