Televisión Pública
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Ownership | |
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Owner | Government of Argentina |
Parent | Radio y Televisión Argentina S.A. |
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History | |
Founded | 1951 |
Launched | 17 October 1951 |
Former names | List
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Links | |
Website | tvpublica.com.ar |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Analog VHF | Channel 7 (Buenos Aires) |
Digital UHF | Channel 23.1 (HD) |
Televisión Pública (Public Television, abbreviated TVP) is a publicly owned Argentine television network, the national public broadcaster. It began broadcasting in 1951, when LR3 Radio Belgrano Televisión channel 7 in Buenos Aires, its key station and the first television station in the country, signed on the air.
History
1951–1978: Foundations
Jaime Yankelevich, businessman and operator of radio station LR3 "Radio Belgrano", received the approval of the Perón family to import television equipment from the United States. The final approval came from Eva Perón, who, when informed of the importation of the new equipment, said "Sí, sí, todo muy lindo pero yo lo que quiero es que televisen el acto del Día de la Lealtad" ("Yes, yes, all very good, but what I want is for them to televise the acts of Loyalty Day"). With the support of Minister of Communications Oscar Lorenzo Nicolini and the Radio Belgrano executives, preparations were made to start the first television station in Argentina. Yankelevich imported Bell equipment, DuMont cameras, and a horizontally polarized antenna initially mounted on the MOP Building. On September 24, 1951, Radio Belgrano announcer Fito Salinas was put behind a camera and backed by a musical group, and the first test transmissions commenced.[1] On the first days of tests, televisions were set up in department stores in a 500-meter radius around the site, and the transmitter put out 500 watts of power, but the signal was ramped up and brought to 40 kW power. At that power level, reception was clear for 72 km (45 mi) around.
Finally, October 17, 1951 came, and once more, channel 7 signed on for the first time under the name it would bear for a decade: LR3 Radio Belgrano TV. The first broadcast was conducted on Loyalty Day, as Eva Perón wanted, from the Plaza de Mayo; the remote cameras were connected to the studios by a cable link. 2,500 televisions were in place in the country to watch the events. For the first time in 24 days, Eva Perón rose from her bed to attend, dressed in black. The CGT awarded her the Distinction of Recognition and to president Juan Perón the Great Peronist Medal of Extraordinary Class. Doses of tranquilizers, administered by the education minister, were necessary to allow Eva to deliver a brief address, her final political testament, in which she mentioned her own death nine times.[2]
On November 4, 1951, LR3-TV began regular commercial telecasts, broadcasting from 5:30 to 10:30pm each day. In 1957, the studios moved to the Alas Building, where they occupied two subfloors, the first floor and the basement. In 1961, the television and radio station parted the separate ways, with the television station adopting its current callsign, LS 82 TV.
There was even a brief period in which the station was awarded to a private entity: Editorial Haynes was awarded the license in 1954 by Perón's government, but the next year, the government of the Revolución Libertadora annulled the transfer, thus it remained a national channel owned by the government.
1978–2000: Color television
Argentina hosted the
In 1979, Canal 7 took control of the new complex, and with it came a new name. On May 3, Canal 7 became Argentina Televisora Color (ATC), a name that would serve the channel for the remainder of the 20th century. Carlos Montero helped design the new channel's identity.
The investment in ATC paid off, and briefly in the early 1980s, before the rise of Alejandro Romay's
The 1990s were a more turbulent time for ATC. On one front, the Bosch Fernseh equipment, which was still the bulk of the channel's workflow, was aging, and replacement parts and fixes were getting harder to find. On another, under Carlos Menem, ATC was almost privatized and, in 1996, even had an unusual five-month change of identity to ATeCE, a la Argentina (ATeCE, to Argentina), with a new, more nationalist approach.
2000–present: Canal 7, TV Pública and Televisión Pública Argentina
On January 1, 2000, ATC rebranded under an emergency administration that would take control of the channel until April, using a plain wordmark with the full name of the channel as its temporary logo. This administration would help ATC leave out of its financial ruin.[3]
In 2001 Canal 7 celebrated the golden jubilee year anniversary of its first broadcasts. Under the presidency of
At the beginning of the presidency of Néstor Kirchner, the channel's management was split into fiction and non-fiction; this led to an increase in its in-house productions. In 2006, Rosario Lufrano became the new director of Canal 7, changing its name to TV Pública and refocusing the channel to a more cultural emphasis. At the same time, new equipment—much of it ready for high definition telecasts—was ordered, finally putting to pasture the 1978-vintage Bosch Fernseh cameras and switchers.
In April 2010, TV Pública launched its digital signal on UHF channel 23, in the
On April 18, 2016, as part of its 65th anniversary, TV Pública changed its name to Televisión Pública Argentina (Argentine Public Television).
Logo evolution
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1951–59
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1959–61
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1961
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1962
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1964
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1965
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1966
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1967
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June-July 1978 (during theArgentina 78World Cup)
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1985–87
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1987-February 1996, June 1996-1998
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1996 (as ATeCE)
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2000 (without logo)
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2014
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2016–20
Programming
Televisión Pública Argentina has a varied programming schedule. Its output includes many cultural and educational programs. It also has its own news service, with news programs branded Televisión Pública Noticias (Public Television News), and its program
Coverage
- Argentine Primera División (Only 2 matches released per round)
- Argentina's First Division A Women's Football Championship
- FIFA World Cup Qualifiers
- Copa América
- Turismo Carretera
- Copa América de Futsal (Only Argentina matches)
- FIFA Futsal World Cup (Only Argentina matches)
- FIFA World Cup
- FIFA Women's World Cup
- Olympic Games
References
- ^ http://estatico.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/cultura/cpphc/archivos/libros/temas_15.pdf Archived 2011-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, pg.111
- ^ "Medios". 17 October 2011. Archived from the original on 5 January 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ "ATC: Argentina Televisora Cultural". La Nación. 16 January 2000. Archived from the original on 14 March 2024. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
External links
- Official website
- ATA (Asociación de Teleradiodifusoras Argentinas)
- Youtube channel