Willax Televisión
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HDTV | |
Ownership | |
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Owner | Erasmo Wong Lu |
Parent | Corporación E Wong |
Key people | Enrique Luna Victoria (General manager) |
History | |
Founded | 2010 |
Launched | 18 August 2010 |
Founder | Gilberto Hume |
Links | |
Website | willax |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digital VHF | Channel 1.1 |
Willax Televisión (commonly known as Willax) is a Peruvian television channel. It began as an internet channel in 2010 with a television channel launching later that year.
History
Willax was founded by journalist Gilberto Hume and his wife Cecilia Valenzuela in 2010. Willax was founded after the relaunch of AgenciaPerú, originally established in 2008. The channel’s name comes from the Quechua word Willakuy meaning "news."
In early 2010, the channel began broadcasting on the Internet as a news channel operated out of the former Monitor studios in San Borja. Later, it commenced operations as a cable television channel.
In 2014, Willax was transferred to channel 18 on Movistar TV's analog cable service.
In November 2015, the channel was purchased by Erasmo Wong Lu, former owner of the Wong supermarket chain, via its company Corporación EW. After the acquisition, Wong Lu transformed Willax into a free-to-air television station on Lima's digital terrestrial television service[1] and changed the focus of the channel; its programming changed from being a news channel to a general channel, although it maintained its news and current affairs programming. It also changed its operations headquarters to the Plaza Norte shopping center in Independencia District. Later, Willax would acquire the Monitor studios and return to the studios where Willax would still record some programs.
By 2015, Willax had changed its programming and its lineup started to consist of entertainment, news, and political programs.
In 2017, Korean dramas would be added to the channel's programming lineup after having bought the rights from Panamericana Televisión.
In 2018, they started to air Japanese anime, which would continue to be shown on the channel until before the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, Willax increased the number of original productions on the channel, especially political opinion programs like Beto a Saber, La Hora Caviar, Rey con Barba and ComButters with prime hours beginning at 8:00 p.m. and ending at midnight. In April, due to the closure of schools as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the channel began simulcasting from TV Perú with the educational government TV program Aprendo en casa in the mornings.
As of 2022, the channel’s current lineup includes generalist programming like news, entertainment and sports, among others.
Political alignment
The channel has been described as conservative and
Controversy
2021 Peruvian general election
According to Spanish newspaper
On 18 July 2021, the Public Ministry of Peru opened an investigation into Willax journalists Philip Butters, Humberto Ortiz and Enrique Luna Victoria, alleging that they were responsible for acts of
Other incidents
In July 2017, Phillip Butters of Willax's ComButters program made controversial comments about Afro-Ecuadorians on Ecuador's football team, stating "The Ecuadorians aren't black, they're mountain crocodiles" and that Felipe Caicedo "isn't human, he's a monkey. A gorilla."[11] Willax suspended the program until Butters made an apology.[11]
During the
References
- ^ "Grupo Wong entra a competir en Tv de señal abierta con Willax". Gestion. 2015-12-03. Archived from the original on 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ a b Budasoff, Joseph Zárate, Eliezer (2021-04-10). "Rafael López Aliaga: the creation of a far-right candidate in Peru". El País. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - La Republica(in Spanish). 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- La República(in Spanish). 2021-09-25. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ "El mal menor: Perú vota dividido entre memoria antifujimori y miedo al comunismo". HuffPost (in Spanish). 2021-06-06. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ a b "Milagros Leiva no sabía que estaba en vivo y suelta tremenda lisura en transmisión [VIDEO]". El Popular (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ a b c d "Elecciones Perú: investigan a periodistas de Willax por conspiración". Deutsche Welle (in European Spanish). 19 July 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ a b c "Fiscalía de Perú investiga a periodistas por llamar a un golpe de estado en televisión". The Independent (in Spanish). 2021-07-19. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- Peru21(in Spanish). 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ^ a b Barr, Shirley Campbell (2017-07-03). "Peruvian sportscaster's racist comments trigger outrage across 2 countries". Business Standard. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- Peru.21(in Spanish). 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
External links
- Official website (in Spanish)