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2015 In Spanish Television
This is a list of Television in Spain, Spanish television related events from 2015. Events * 25 January – 25 anniversary of the first private TV Channel in Spain, Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel), Antena 3. * 25 February: José Creuheras Margenat is appointed Chairman of Atresmedia Corporación. * 3 March – 25 anniversary of Telecinco. * 31 March – Change in the system of Digital terrestrial television broadcasting due to the so-called Digital dividend after digital television transition. * 30 June – TV channel GOL PLAY launches. * 8 July – Digital platform Movistar+ is launched * 15 July – TV Channel Mega (Spanish TV channel), Mega starts broadcasting. * 20 October – Netflix is launched in Spain. * 22 December – TV Channel Atreseries is launched. Debuts Television shows Ending this year Changes of network affiliation Deaths * 13 January – José Luis Moro, cartoonist, 88. * 29 January – Amparo Baró, actress, 77. * 31 January – José Manuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple languages. Launched in 2007, nearly a decade after Netflix, Inc. began its pioneering DVD-by-mail movie rental service, Netflix is the most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service, with 301.6 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of 2025. By 2022, "Netflix Original" productions accounted for half of its library in the United States and the namesake company had ventured into other categories, such as video game publishing of mobile games through its flagship service. As of 2025, Netflix is the 18th most-visited website in the world, with 21.18% of its traffic coming from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 6.01%, Canada at 4.94%, and Brazil at 4.24%. History Launch as a mail-based renta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesús Vázquez (television Presenter)
Jesús Vázquez Martínez (born 9 September 1965) is a Spanish television presenter. In 2008, he became the first Spaniard to be selected as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. Biography Vázquez was born in Ferrol, Galicia. He moved to Melilla, where he joined as an undergraduate at the local Veterinary School; however, before he could complete his studies he moved to Madrid. In this period, he worked as a model. Vázquez rose to fame in the early 1990s as the host of two television shows aimed at the teenage audience aired on Telecinco: ''La quinta marcha'' (1990-1991), which he hosted alongside Penélope Cruz, and ''Hablando se entiende la basca'' (1991-1993). In this period, he starred in the film ''Aquí el que no corre, vuela''. (1992), directed by Ramón Fernández and produced by Telecinco, along with Alfredo Landa, Arturo Fernández, Arantxa del Sol and Natalia Estrada. In 1993, he ventured into singing with the album ''A dos milímetros escasos de tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Chunguitos
Los Chunguitos are a Spanish Romani rumba flamenca group from Badajoz, Extremadura, formed in Vallecas, Madrid in 1973. The group's nucleus was the three brothers Juan (1954), Manuel (1962), and José Salazar (1957), whose uncle was the flamenco singer . Their sisters, Toñi and Encarna, sang backup and would later go on to success on their own as Azúcar Moreno. The name "Los Chunguitos" comes from the pastime of throwing small stones at trains. They began as street buskers, playing in Madrid. In 1977, they auditioned at the offices of record label EMI, and producer convinced the label to sign them. Los Chunguitosat Allmusic.com They became hitmakers both in their own country and across Europe with songs such as "Dame veneno". They also appeared in the soundtracks to films such as '' Deprisa, Deprisa'', '' Perros callejeros'', and '' Días contados''. The group plays rumba flamenca influenced by Romani music and Catalan rumba. Their lyrics often touch on poverty [Baidu] |
Ramón García (TV Host)
Ramón García Hernando (28 November 1961, Bilbao, Spain) is a Spanish radio and television presenter. He is also colloquially known as Ramontxu or Ramonchu. His long professional career and his versatility have been demonstrated in television shows like '' ¿Qué apostamos?'' and '' El Grand Prix del verano'', and in nineteen live broadcasts of the New Year's Eve clock bell strikes. Professional career His career began in the radio, after entering a DJ contest in Biscay in 1983 and being proclaimed the winner by the Cadena SER managers. As a result he worked for Los 40 Principales and . He then jumped into the regional television scene in 1989, having different roles in ETB 2. In 1990 he debuted on national television, on Antena 3 hosting '' La ruleta de la fortuna''. In 1991 he signed for Televisión Española (TVE) to host '' No te rías, que es peor'', which began a long career on the network with prime time hits such as '' ¿Qué apostamos?'' or '' El Grand Prix del ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unidad Editorial
Unidad Editorial, S.A. is a Spanish media company. It owns the newspapers , and . It is primarily owned by the Italian holding RCS MediaGroup. History Unidad Editorial emerged in 2007 after the merger of two media companies, namely Unedisa (controlled by Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup) and . Grupo Recoletos was the publisher of the newspapers '' Marca'', and the magazines '' Actualidad Económica'' and '' Telva''. Unedisa was the publisher of , founded in 1989 by Pedro J. Ramírez. Back in 2000, Veo Televisión (owned by Unedisa) had been also conceded one of the two new DTT licenses granted by People's Party government. Following the leaving of Pedro J. Ramírez from in 2014, RCS MediaGroup asserted a tighter control over Unidad Editorial. In 2016, RCS MediaGroup was acquired in a takeover by Urbano Cairo, who had support from the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group. Holdings Newspapers In 2006, the share of the newspapers controlled by the founding companies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víctor Ros
''Víctor Ros'' is a Spanish crime mystery television series starring Carles Francino. It is based on the Jerónimo Tristante' novels about the namesake fictional detective set in late 19th-century Madrid. The first season was originally released on Movistar TV in 2014 before its free-to-air broadcasting on La 1 in early 2015, while the second season aired on the latter channel in late 2016. Premise The first season, set in Madrid in 1895, follows the innovative investigations of Víctor Ros (Carles Francino), a police officer from the ''Brigada Metropolitana de Madrid'', the first Spanish law enforcement unit employing scientific and deductive techniques. The plot of the second season, also featuring Ros as lead character, takes place three years after the events of the first season and the fiction develops in Madrid and Linares, in the province of Jaén. Cast * as Víctor Ros. * Megan Montaner as Lola la Valenciana. * Esmeralda Moya as Clara Alvear. * Tito Valverde como ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aitor Luna
Aitor González Luna (born 18 September 1981), professionally known as Aitor Luna, is a Spanish actor. He earned early public recognition in Spain for his performance in '' Los hombres de Paco''. He has since featured in series such as '' Gran Reserva'', '' Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste'' or '' Cathedral of the Sea''. Biography Born on 18 September 1981 in Bergara, Gipuzkoa, son to Andalusian migrants in the Basque Country, he is the older brother of actor Yon González. Luna trained his acting chops at Ánima Eskola. He made his television debut in 2005 in the Basque soap opera '' Goenkale''. He earned early public recognition in Spain for his performance from 2005 to 2009 as Gonzalo Montoya in '' Los hombres de Paco''. He featured afterwards in ' (TV movie, 2009), '' Gran Reserva'' (2010–2013) and '' La fuga'' (2012). In 2014, he landed the lead of the television adaptation of the Arturo Pérez Reverte's '' Capitán Alatriste'' novels, '' Las aventuras del capitá ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europa Press (news Agency)
Europa Press is a Spanish news agency founded in 1953. It broadcasts news 24 hours a day, publishing 3,000 articles on average per day. Originally founded as a book distribution company by five monarchists, Europa Press became a news agency in 1966. It is a competitor to the state-run news agency, Agencia EFE. History On September 23, 1953, Torcuato Luca de Tena published in ''ABC'' that Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, leader of the Soviet police, was in Spain following the death of Joseph Stalin. Since no one could verify the information, Luca de Tena was dismissed. When he was thirty, he decided to write books and pamphlets, founding an individual agency called Agencia Europea, where he hired his colleagues Florentino Pérez Embid, Andrés Rueda, Lluis Valls, Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora and Javier García Vinuesa, with the aim of creating and spreading material containing pictures summarizing successful theatre plays or movies. The name 'Europa' responds to the Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Aventuras Del Capitán Alatriste (TV Series)
''Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste'' is a Spanish adventure television series set in the early 17th century, consisting of an adaptation of the Captain Alatriste novel series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, starring Aitor Luna in the lead role. It aired from January 2015 to April 2015 on Telecinco. Premise The fiction takes place in the first half of the 17th century. It follows the adventures of the Captain Alatriste (Aitor Luna), taking him—besides Madrid—to Paris and Vatican City. Cast * Aitor Luna as Diego Alatriste. * Natasha Yarovenko as María de Castro. * Lucía Jiménez as Caridad la Lebrijana. * Patricia Vico as Teresa de Alquézar. * as Francisco de Quevedo. * Filippo Sbalchiero as Gualterio Malatesta. * Gary Piquer as Count-Duke of Olivares. * Marcos Ruiz as Íñigo de Balboa y Aguirre. * Carmen Sánchez as Angélica de Alquezar. * Rafael Cebrián as Count of Guadalmedina. * as Fray Emilio Bocanegra. * Luis Callejo as Luis de Alquézar. * as Sebastián ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Irureta
Elena Irureta Azanza (born 30 July 1955) is a Spanish Basque actress. She has performed in many Basque-language and Spanish-language television productions. Biography Elena Irureta Azanza was born in Zumaia (Gipuzkoa) on 30 July 1955. She became a professional stage actress after graduating from the ''Escuela de Arte Dramático de Antzerti'' in San Sebastián. Irureta appeared in films such as ''Fuego eterno'', ''La monja alférez'', ''El mar es azul'', '' The Dead Mother'', '' Hola, ¿estás sola?'' or ''La ardilla roja''. She became known in the Basque television, performing in series such as ''Bi eta bat'', ''Beni eta Marini'', ''Jaun eta Jabe''. After performing supporting roles in Spain-wide fiction shows (''Al salir de clase'', ''Periodistas'' or ''Hermanas''), she had her breakout role A breakthrough role, also known as a breakout role, is a term in the theatre, film and television industry to describe the performance of an actor or actress which contributed signi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Cantizano
Jaime Cantizano Camacho (born 22 July 1973 in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain) is a Spanish television and radio presenter. Career At 17 years old, Cantizano started his career in radio broadcasting as a speaker in his hometown's Los 40 Principales station where he also voiced commercials; from there he passed to the regional Cadena SER station and afterwards to Onda Cero. In parallel to his work in radio, he collaborated with newspaper ''El Correo de Andalucía''. In 2001, Cantizano debuted in television in local channel Localia Televisión, hosting a morning show together with Concha Galán. In 2002 he was hired by nationwide channel Antena 3 to co-host Ana Rosa Quintana's talk show ''Sabor a ti''. In 2003, the channel offered him to host weekly prime time talk show ''¿Dónde estás corazón?'', which focused on the private lives of celebrities. Despite the show attracting criticism and being characterised as tabloid television, it aired until September 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
