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Venezolana de Televisión
Venezolana de Television logo.jpg
Launched August 1, 1964
Owned by State-Owned Enterprise under administration of the Ministry of Communication and Information
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
Slogan All Venezuelan's Channel
(Spanish: El Canal de todos los Venezolanos)
Language Spanish
Broadcast area Venezuela
Affiliates ANTV
Avila TV
Buena Televisión
teleSUR
ViVe
Headquarters Caracas, Venezuela
Website VTV.gob.ve
Availability
Terrestrial
Local UHF Venezuela Channel 8 (Caracas and most of the country)
Satellite
Direct TV Venezuela Channel 108
Cable
Intercable Venezuela Channel 8
NetUno Venezuela Channel 7
Supercable Venezuela Channel 8
Internet television
VTV Watch live (Windows Media stream)

Corporación Venezolana de Televisión (Spanish for: Venezuelan Television Corporation) or VTV is a state-owned television network based in Caracas, Venezuela, which can be seen throughout the country on channel eight.

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History

Cadena Venezolana de Televisión (CVTV) was inaugurated as a privately-owned television station on August 1, 1964, at 7:30 p.m.[1] President Raúl Leoni was chosen to be the one to cut the ribbon. Despite its name, however, it was not a nationwide television network.[2]

In September 1974, CVTV, after prolonged financial problems due to its competition with the better established privately-owned television networks in Venezuela, Radio Caracas Televisión and Venevisión, was purchased by the Venezuelan government and rebranded as Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).[3]

Between 1974 and 1980, VTV was funded in whole by the government, but due to an internal economic crisis, VTV was forced to air advertisements for extra revenue (this has no longer been occurring since Hugo Chávez became president in 1999).[4]

After June 1, 1980, VTV, as well as the other television networks in Venezuela, were allowed, by the government of President Luis Herrera Campins, to transmit completely in color.[5]

In 1989, VTV, after a government decision to close the Televisora Nacional, the other state-owned television channel in Venezuela, began simulcasting on channel 5, system M, color NTSC. This simulcast lasted until December 4, 1998, when the government handed over the signal of channel five to the Archbishopric of Caracas, which gave birth to Vale TV.

On November 27, 1992, VTV was targeted in a coup attempt. Military officers, in rebellion against President Carlos Andrés Pérez, attacked the station. Ten station employees were killed.

VTV has been known to produce a few telenovelas over the years. They included titles such as Infigenia, La Doña Perfecta, and La Dueña. 1984's La Dueña was perhaps its most successful and popular productions. In 2004, VTV produced another telenovela, Amores de Barrio Adentro, but it was only seen once a week and lasted only a few months. In August 2004, VTV celebrated its 40th anniversary. Programs that can be seen on VTV include Aló Presidente and Noticias TeleSUR.

On January 25, 2010 university students from the oposition entered the Channel and had a meeting with VTV's president, to tell him to balance their information and to respect the oposition.

CBC trademark controversy

In 1999, VTV used a logo identical to the nicknamed "Exploding Pizza" ident used by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. No official word is available for comment from either parties.

Criticism

During the Presidency of Hugo Chávez, it is alleged that VTV has been used by the government as an instrument to campaign against Venezuela's opposition and Venezuela's privately owned media (Venevisión, Globovisión, Televen, and Radio Caracas Televisión). On the evening of the April 11, Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002 against Chávez, Enrique Mendoza, then governor of Venezuela's Miranda State, while being interviewed by Venevisión announced "a esa basura de canal la vamos a cerrar" ("We are going to shut down that trashy channel"), referring to VTV. Hours later, the Miranda state police occupied VTV and forced it off the air. It remained off the air until April 14, 2002, when Chávez was returned to power.[6]

In 2005, the program Dossier was canceled because its host and producer, Walter Martinez, criticized the government. Martínez mentioned that he was hunting some members of the government involved in corruption, indicating that he had proof. The government asked for an apology (which he didn't give) and forced Dossier off the air.[7]

Slogan

Coach bus operated by VTV baring the channel's logo: “El Canal de todos los venezolanos”.

VTV's slogan is "El Canal de todos los Venezolanos", or "The channel of all Venezuelans".[8] It had changed temporarily to "Desde adentro", or "From inside" but it has since been changed back.

Trivia

  • Venezuelan musician Simón Díaz (Tío Simón) once had a show on VTV back in the 1990s called Contesta por Tío Simón and he appeared in another program called Vacaciones con Tío Simón.
  • VTV's current president is Jesús Romero Anselmi. Former VTV presidents include Vladimir Villegas (who is the brother of Ernesto Villegas), Andrés Izarra, Blanca Eeckout, Maripili Hernández, and back in the 1980's, journalist Marta Colomina.
  • Jesús Romero Anselmi was the president of VTV before Vladimir Villegas became its president in 2002. In 2005, Romero Anselmi returned to the presidency of VTV.
  • During Rafael Caldera's second term as president, there were plans to privatize VTV. It failed when it was realized that VTV would probably not be profitable.
  • Venezolana de Televisión was the first TV station in Venezuela to broadcast a foreign made telenovela in 1969. It was called Mi Maestro and it was imported from Mexico.
  • Porfirio Torres's voice can be heard during some of VTV's promos.

See also

References

  1. ^ Mayobre, José Antonio (1993) (in Spanish). La labor de Sísifo: los intentos de reformar la televisión en Venezuela. Monte Avila Editores Latinoamericana. p. 154. ISBN 978-9800106266. 
  2. ^ Leoni, Raúl (1968) (in Spanish). Documentos presidenciales: 11 marzo 1964-11 marzo 1965. Oficina Central de Información. p. 176. 
  3. ^ Hernández Díaz, Gustavo (2008) (in Spanish). Las tres “T” de la comunicación en Venezuela. Televisión, teoría y televidentes. Universidad Catolica Andres. p. 67. ISBN 978-9802445509. 
  4. ^ Alvaray, Nathalie; Arenas, Zamawa (1992) (in Spanish). La oferta de la televisión venezolana: estudio de un día de programación en 13 televisoras. Tkachenko, Anacristina. Fundación Carlos Eduardo Frías. p. 41. 
  5. ^ Mayobre, 1993, p. 152.
  6. ^ Human Rights Watch (2008). A decade under Chavez: political intolerance and lost opportunities for advancing human rights in Venezuela. Human Rights Watch. p. 74. ISBN 978-1564323712. 
  7. ^ Sreeharsha, Vinod (November 22, 2005). Telesur tested by Chávez video. The Christian Science Monitor.
  8. ^ "Comunicación", Volumes 133-136. Boletín "Comunicación". 2006.

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