Venezolana de Televisión
SDTV 480i | |
Ownership | |
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Owner | SiBCI ( Ministry of Popular Power for Communication and Information) |
History | |
Launched | August 1, 1964 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Analog VHF | Channel 8 (listings may vary) |
Digital UHF | Channel 22.1 |
Corporación Venezolana de Televisión (Spanish for: Venezuelan Television Corporation) or VTV is a state-run television station based in Caracas, Venezuela, which can be seen throughout the capital and surrounding areas on channel 8. Programs that can be seen on VTV included Aló Presidente and Telesur Noticias.
VTV has produced a number of
During the Bolivarian government, VTV has been used by the government to campaign against Venezuela's opposition and Venezuela's privately owned media, with about 75% of its programming transmitted to Venezuelans consisted of Bolivarian propaganda.
History
Private channel (1964–1974)
Cadena Venezolana de Televisión (CVTV) was inaugurated as a privately owned television station on August 1, 1964, at 7:30 p.m.[2] President Raúl Leoni was chosen to be the one to cut the ribbon. Despite its name, however, it was not a nationwide television network at first, broadcasting in the Caracas area during its first years.[3] Only in the late 1960s did the channel become a national network with the opening of stations in major cities nationwide, and became the first network to produce and broadcast a color program in 1971.
The first logo of VTV thus was the company name (CVTV) on a number 8 (reflecting its channel number in Caracas).
State channel (1974- present)
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).[4] 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).[5] It now only broadcasts program previews and government ads instead.
After June 1, 1979, 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 using the NTSC-M system.[6] By 1980, the transition was complete, and VTV was then rebranded as the VTV Network (VTV Red) until 1982, together with Televisora Nacional, the other state-owned television channel in Venezuela and the first television station to be established, thus briefly uniting channels 5 and 8 into one national network.
In 1990, VTV, after a government decision to close the Televisora Nacional due to the economic situation of the country, merged it with the latter and thus began simulcasting on channel 5, system M, color NTSC (starting midday). 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.
In 1999, VTV used a logo identical to the nicknamed "Exploding Pizza" ident used by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. By 2014, became the first Latin American station to broadcast Russia's RT Actualidad's newscast.[citation needed]
Politics
VTV has several times been targeted during coup attempts. VTV was a target in the
Bolivarian government
Under the Bolivarian government, VTV has been used by the government as an instrument to campaign against Venezuela's opposition and Venezuela's privately owned media
During the
Slogan
VTV's slogan is "El Canal de todos los Venezolanos", or "The channel of all Venezuelans".[11] It had changed temporarily to "Desde adentro", or "From inside" but it has since been changed back.
Presidency
- 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 1980s and 1990, journalist Marta Colomina and Napoleon Bravo.[citation needed]
- 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.[citation needed]
- 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.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b Maya, Margarita López (2014). "Venezuela: The Political Crisis of Post-Chavismo". Social Justice. 40 (4): 68–87.
on the flagship national public channel, Venezolana de Televisión, three of every four hours of transmission featured official propaganda
- ISBN 978-980-01-0626-6.
- ^ Leoni, Raúl (1968). Documentos presidenciales: 11 marzo 1964-11 marzo 1965 (in Spanish). Oficina Central de Información. p. 176.
- ISBN 978-980-244-550-9.
- ^ Alvaray, Nathalie; Arenas, Zamawa (1992). La oferta de la televisión venezolana: estudio de un día de programación en 13 televisoras (in Spanish). Tkachenko, Anacristina. Fundación Carlos Eduardo Frías. p. 41.
- ^ Mayobre, 1993, p. 152.
- ^ Quiñones, Bisbal; Quiñones, Rafael (2007). ¿Instrumento de gobierno o institución estatal?. Vol. 139. Comunicación. p. 64.
- ISBN 978-1-56432-371-2.
According to a recent study based on four days' programming in 2006, more than half of VTV's output was devoted to progovernment news and opinion programs heavily biased against the opposition and in favor of the government view.
- ISBN 978-1-56432-371-2.
- ^ Sreeharsha, Vinod (November 22, 2005). Telesur tested by Chávez video. The Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ "Comunicación", Volumes 133-136. Boletín "Comunicación". 2006.
External links
- Official Site (in Spanish)
- VTV's programming chart for the current week