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Promec Televisión
Promec Televisión (full name ''Corporación Promotora de Medios de Comunicación Social'') was a Colombian ''programadora''. It operated between 1973 and 1989. History Early years It was founded in October 1972 by several entrepreneurs who included Humberto Arbeláez and Jorge Yarce. It was a non-profit corporation. It began operations in 1973, with its first major success ''Dialogando'', a docu-drama. Though it was new it came out of the ''licitación'' of 1973 with what was then one of Colombian television's prized timeslots: 8pm Thursdays on Canal Uno, Primera Cadena. ''Dialogando'' was so successful it would remain on the air until 1989. In the ''licitación'' of 1976 Promec received 3.5 hours of programming a week, including its first venture into foreign programs. Other early programs were ''Las Señoritas Gutiérrez'', a comedy written by María Victoria de Restrepo and whose family would found its own ''programadora'' in 1979. It competed against Caracol's mainstay Sába ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Programadora
In Television in Colombia, Colombian broadcasting, ''programadoras'' (literally ''programmer'') are companies that produce television programs, especially for the public-commercial Canal Uno (and, until 2003, Canal A/Segunda Cadena). The Colombian television model from 1954 to the late 1990s, known as the ''sistema mixto'' ("mixed system"), relied on ''programadoras'' as the sole producers of programs that aired on the two major channels. Following the introduction of two national private television channels to the country in the late 1990s, the recession of that same time period and a resulting combination of falling ratings and declining advertising revenues, the ''programadoras'' went into a tailspin that led to many closing in bankruptcy or becoming production companies for the private networks. By 2003, only seven ''programadoras'' were left on Canal Uno, later reduced to four. In May 2017, Plural Comunicaciones, a consortium including several former ''programadoras'', took to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
