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RTVE Canarias
RTVE Canarias is the production center of Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) located in the Canary Islands. The center is in charge of the local programming of (TVE) and (RNE), broadcast to the archipelago through their television channels and radio stations in regional variation, and of the news coverage of the region for the central news services. TVE's production center was inaugurated in 1964 and operated autonomously until 1971. RNE began broadcasting in the Canaries also in 1964. Currently, RTVE Canarias has two production centers, one in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and another in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, as well as newsrooms and a network of collaborators on the five remaining islands. Among its best-known television programs are the regional newscast ''Telecanarias'' and folkloric programs such as ''Tenderete''. The headquarters and management are located at Las Palmas. All regional television and radio programs are available on RTVE Play. History The Canary Islands were one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RTVE
The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (; ), known as Radiotelevisión Española (''Spanish Radio and Television'', RTVE), is the Spanish national public Broadcasting, television and radio broadcaster. It is a state-owned enterprise formed in 2007 to succeed the ''Ente Público Radiotelevisión Española'' (RTVE Public Entity). It provides multi-station television (Televisión Española) and radio services (Radio Nacional de España), as well as online and streaming services (RTVE Play). Since the entry into force of the RTVE Financing Act of 2009, RTVE is primarily funded by a combination of subsidies from the General State Budget and a fee levied on the private agents' gross revenue (3.0% for private free-to-air channels, a 1.5% for private subscription channels and a 0.9% for telecom companies). RTVE is a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The corporation's central headquarters, Prado del Rey (studios), Prado del Rey, are located in Pozuelo de Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prado Del Rey (studios)
Prado del Rey is the central headquarters of RTVE, Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE), the Spanish state-owned public broadcasting corporation, and the main production center for its subsidiaries (TVE) and Radio Nacional de España (RNE). The complex is in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Community of Madrid, Madrid). History Prado del Rey was inaugurated on 18 July 1964 to replace the first headquarters located at Paseo de la Habana in Madrid. It was opened by Francisco Franco and the then-Ministry of Information and Tourism#List of ministers, Minister of Information and Tourism, Manuel Fraga. with three studios already in operation and another six studios under construction. Studio 1 had an area of , which made it the largest studio in Europe at the time. Shows and fiction production was soon transferred there, but the news program ''Telediario'' and its news services were not transferred until 1967. In 1971, Radio Nacional de España headquarters was moved to an annex building named Casa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenerife Airport Disaster
The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport, Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport) on the Spain, Spanish island of Tenerife. The incident occurred at 5:06 pm Western European Time, WET (Coordinated Universal Time, UTCUTC+00:00, +0) in dense fog, when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run, colliding with the right side of Pan Am Flight 1736 still on the runway. The impact and the resulting fire killed all 248 people on board the KLM plane and 335 of the 396 people on board the Pan Am plane, with only 61 survivors in the front section of the latter aircraft. With a total of 583 fatalities, the disaster is the List of deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents, deadliest accident in aviation history. The two aircraft had landed at Los Rodeos earlier that Sunday, and were among a number of aircraft diverted to Los R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green March
The Green March was a strategic mass demonstration in November 1975, coordinated by the Moroccan government and military, to force Spain to hand over the disputed, autonomous semi-metropolitan province of Spanish Sahara to Morocco. The Spanish government was preparing to abandon the territory as part of the decolonization of Africa, just as it had granted independence to Equatorial Guinea in 1968. The native inhabitants, the Sahrawi people, aspired to form an independent state. The demonstration of 350,000 Moroccans advanced several kilometers into the Western Sahara territory. Morocco later gained control of most of the former Spanish Sahara, which it continues to hold. The Green March was condemned by the international community, notably in the United Nations Security Council Resolution 380. The march was considered an attempt to bypass the International Court of Justice's '' Advisory opinion on Western Sahara'' that had been issued three weeks earlier. Morocco gained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 FIFA World Cup
The 1982 FIFA World Cup was the 12th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in Spain from 13 June to 11 July 1982. The tournament was won by Italy national football team, Italy, who defeated Germany national football team, West Germany 3–1 in the 1982 FIFA World Cup final, final held in the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in the capital, Madrid. It was Italy's third World Cup title, but their first since 1938 FIFA World Cup, 1938. The defending champions, Argentina national football team, Argentina, were eliminated in the second round (finishing third and last in their group). Algeria national football team, Algeria, Cameroon national football team, Cameroon, Honduras national football team, Honduras, Kuwait national football team, Kuwait and New Zealand men's national football team, New Zealand made their first appearances in the finals. The tournament featured the first penalty shootout in World Cup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La 2 (Spanish TV Channel)
La 2 (, ''The Two'') is a Spanish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Televisión Española (TVE), the television division of state-owned public broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE). It is the corporation's second television channel, and is known for broadcasting cultural and public service programming, including documentaries, concerts, theatre and independent, Ibero-American and classic cinema. It was launched on 15 November 1966 as the second regular television service in Spain right after TVE's first channel launched on 28 October 1956. As TVE held a monopoly on television broadcasting in the country, they were the only television channels until the first regional public television station was launched on 16 February 1983, when Euskal Telebista started broadcasting in the Basque Country. Commercial television was launched on 25 January 1990, when Antena 3 started broadcasting nationwide. As it started broadcasting on UHF frequencies the channe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Día (Canary Islands)
''El Día'' (''The Day'') is a Spanish language newspaper published in the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; ) or Canaries are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and the southernmost Autonomous communities of Spain, Autonomous Community of Spain. They are located in the northwest of Africa, with the closest point to the cont ..., Spain), founded in 1910 under the name of ''La Prensa''. It is the largest paper in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. According to EGM, it is the newspaper on average more daily readers of the Canary Islands. References External links * 1910 establishments in Spain Daily newspapers published in Spain Mass media in Santa Cruz de Tenerife Newspapers established in 1910 Spanish-language newspapers {{Spain-newspaper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto De La Cruz
Puerto de la Cruz is a city and municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. It was formerly known by its English translation, "Port of the Cross", although now it is known by its Spanish name in all languages. Puerto de la Cruz is located on the northern coast, northwest of La Orotava and west of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The Autopista TF-5, TF-5 motorway passes through the municipality. The population is 30,483 (2018). In Spanish, the local inhabitants are known as ''Portuenses''. With an area of , the municipality is the smallest in Tenerife. The elevation of the town's centre is above sea level and the highest point being Las Arenas, a volcanic cone with an elevation of . Historical population Economy Puerto de la Cruz occupies a prominent place in the history of tourism of the islands. The export economy established by the European colonizers after the conquest of the Canary Islands, conquest in the 15th century generated large com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telediario
''Telediario'' (''Tele-journal'') is the Flagship (broadcasting), flagship television newscast produced by Televisión Española (TVE), the television division of Spanish state-owned public broadcaster RTVE, Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE). It is the longest running program in the history of television in Spain as it has been broadcast daily since 15 September 1957. Three ''Telediario'' editions a day are produced by Televisión Española news services and are simulcast live on La 1 (Spanish TV channel), La 1, on 24 Horas (Spanish TV channel), 24 Horas news channel, on TVE Internacional and on RTVE Play. Previous editions are also available on their online platform Video on demand, on demand. Additional international editions are also produced and aired on TVE Internacional every day. TVE's territorial centers in every Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community produce and broadcast in regional variations in each of them, a shorter midday local newscast, each one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In Spain
Television in Spain was Timeline of the introduction of television in countries, introduced in 1956, when the national Government-owned corporation, state-owned public service broadcasting, public service television broadcaster (TVE) started regular analog free-to-air terrestrial black and white broadcasts. Colour transmissions started in 1972 after two years of test transmissions, with all programming transmitted in color in 1977, and colour commercials starting in 1978. TVE held a monopoly on television broadcasting until regional public channels were launched during the 1980s and Commercial broadcasting, commercial television started nationwide in 1990. Digital terrestrial television was launched on 30 November 2005 with analog service discontinued on 3 April 2010. Currently, television is one of the leading mass media of the country, and by 2008 was in 99.7% of households in Spain according to Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain), INE statistics. Until recently terrest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intelsat IV F-2
Intelsat IV F-2 was a geostationary communication satellite built by Hughes and owned by Intelsat. The satellite was based on the HS-312 platform and its estimated useful life was 7 years. History The Intelsat IV F-2 was part of the Intelsat IV series which consisted of eight communications satellites, launched from Cape Canaveral during the early 1970s, marked the fifth generation of geostationary communications satellites developed by the Hughes Aircraft Company since 1963 with the launch of Syncom II, the world's first synchronous satellite. The Syncom II was 15 cm high and 28 inches in diameter, weighing 78 pounds in orbit. In contrast, the Intelsat IVs weighed more than into orbit and were more than in diameter. All seven satellites exceeded their projected life expectancies and were withdrawn from active duty, the last of which, the Intelsat IV F-1 was retired in October 1987. The satellite was equipped with 12 C-band transponders. It had 6,000 two-way relay ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La 1 (Spanish TV Channel)
(, ''The One'') is a Spanish free-to-air television channel owned and operated by (TVE), the television division of state-owned public broadcaster (RTVE). It is the corporation's flagship television channel and is known for broadcasting mainstream and generalist programming, including news bulletins, prime time drama, cinema and entertainment, and major breaking news, sports and special events. History It was launched on 28 October 1956 as the first regular television service in Spain. It was the only one until 15 November 1966, when TVE launched a second channel. As TVE held a monopoly on television broadcasting in the country, they were the only television channels until the first regional public television station was launched on 16 February 1983, when started broadcasting in the Basque Country. Commercial television was launched on 25 January 1990, when started broadcasting nationwide. The channel was initially simply referred to as "" until the launch of its secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
