The ''TP de Oro'' were a series of
Spanish
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annual television awards awarded between 1972 and 2011 by ''Teleprograma'' magazine.
History
Initially baptized as Los mejores de TP (The best of TP), they were called for the first time in 1972, six years after the birth of ''Teleprograma'' magazine. The winners were announced in April 1973, with the great winner of this first edition being the ''
Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez'' contest, which won three awards: best program, best presenter
Kiko Ledgard and most popular character (''Don Cicuta'').
After the birth of
TV3 and
ETB Basque
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, in 1984 the categories were expanded to also recognize the best programs and professionals of regional television. In 1988, a new trophy was released to reward the winners, instead of the commemorative plaque delivered to date.
In 1991 the ceremony was broadcast for the first time on television, by
Telecinco
Telecinco is a Spanish free-to-air television channel operated by Mediaset España. The channel was previously known as Tele 5, because it had first begun its experimental transmissions on 10 March 1989, and a year later, it was officially laun ...
. The newly born private networks join the awards distribution, obtaining four Telecinco awards and one
Antena 3.
In 1992 the awards changed their name and became the TP de Oro, also launching a new award and new categories. On this occasion the gala was broadcast by
Canal + and, a year later, by
Televisión Española
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.
In the 1996 edition, a new bronze statuette - in force until the last edition - was adopted, the work of the sculptor
Joaquín Collantes, as a prize for the winners.
For four consecutive years (from 1994 to 1997), Antena 3 was in charge of broadcasting the ceremony and, subsequently, Telecinco did so for three more years (from 1998 to 2000). After the broadcast of TVE in 2001, Antena 3 took over again from 2002 to 2005.
The 2006 awards ceremony, corresponding to TP's 40th anniversary and 50 years of television in Spain, could not be broadcast due to business discrepancies between the magazine and the private channels.
After this parenthesis, in 2007 the newly born La Sexta took over the broadcast of the awards, whose candidacies included the two new national channels:
Cuatro
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and
La Sexta
La Sexta (; ; stylised as laSexta) is a privately owned Spanish free-to-air television channel that was founded on 18 March 2001 as Beca TV and began broadcasting on 1 April 2001. By 21 July 2003, the channel ran into debt and was shut down, bu ...
.
Since 2010, no network has broadcast the TP de Oro gala. In 2012, they were absorbed by
Fotogramas de Plata awards and the gala stopped taking place in 2013.
References
External links
Web oficial de TPIMDb Page
Spanish television awards
Awards established in 1972
Awards disestablished in 2011
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