Peter Bottome Deery (28 December 1937 – 14 February 2016) was a Venezuelan businessman. He was shareholder and the

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of Venezuelan corporation

Empresas 1BC Empresas 1BC (also known as Grupo Phelps, Centro Corporativo 1BC, and Grupo 1BC), is a privately owned Venezuelan corporation which operates diverse media enterprises such as Radio Caracas Televisión, Etheron, Radio Caracas Radio, , Sonogr� ...

Biography

His parents were Robert Bottome and Kathleen Deery. Later, Katherine Deery married William H. Phelps Jr., founder of Venezuelan TV station

RCTV Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV and sometimes referred to as the Canal de Bárcenas) is a Venezuelan over-the-top streaming service and formerly a free-to-air television Television network, network headquartered in the Caracas neighborhood of Q ...

. Peter Bottome Deery was the brother of Robert Bottome Deery, owner of VenEconomy, a consultancy company providing financial, political and economic data in Venezuela. In 1959, Peter Bottome became director of the radio station

Radio Caracas Radio Radio Caracas Radio was a Venezuelan radio station. Founded in 1930, it was Venezuela's oldest radio station. It was last owned by Empresas 1BC, a Venezuelan private media corporation. The station was shut down in 2023 by the Nicolás Maduro ...

. He gave the radio station a new style focused on broadcasting American music. Years later, he founded Caracas 92.9, an FM station in Caracas. Bottome was president of the

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of Corporación Radiofónica Venezolana (CORAVEN), a branch of Empresas 1BC in charge of international distribution of RCTV productions. He was the main shareholder of Venezuelan newspaper ''

El Diario de Caracas ''El Diario de Caracas'', was one of the best known newspapers of Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Fe ...

'' until 1995 when it was shut down. Additionally, Peter Bottome was senior partner of Venezuelan airline Aerotuy. He developed Aeropotoco, a

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school located in Oscar Machado Zuloaga International Airport, and Airtech, a company of aircraft maintenance. In 1990, Bottome created in

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, a company named Centro Marino de Oriente to repair sport boats. He died on 14 February 2016, as a consequence of a

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detected a year before.

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