TVN (Chile)
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TVN | |
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Formally Called | Televisión Nacional de Chile |
Launched: | May 21 1969 |
Audience share | 23.9% in May, 2005 [[1] (http://foros.fotech.cl/index.php?showtopic=34521)] |
Owned By: | Owned by the chilean State. |
Web Address: | [2] (http://www.tvn.cl) |
Availability | |
Terrestrial Analogue: | Channel 7 (Santiago) |
Satellite: | Yes |
Cable: | Yes |
Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) is Chile's national television station. Its first broadcast was on 1969. It is owned and funded by the government, but functions independently from it, a rare case of public funded television in south america. It's the third place of audiences behind Canal 13 and Mega
Technical Details
TVN sends its feed via a 200+ sender network spanning all over Chile, using channel frequency 7 in Santiago.
It also operates a external station (TV Chile), that is received via satellite around the world.
Programming
TVN broadcasts from 11:00 GMT-06:00 GMT (24 hours a day in TV Chile) and offers a healthy mix of news, variety show and children's programming. It's primetime it's dominated by local dramas, telenovelas and local adaptations of American sitcoms. The most important shows of the network currently airing are:
- 17 (telenovela)
- Los Capo (telenovela)
- Purasangre (telenovela)
- 24 Horas (newscast)
- 31 Minutos (children's programming)
- Buenos días a Todos (breakfast)
- De Pé a Pá (variety show)
- Noche de Juegos (variety show)
- El Cuento del Tío (drama)
- Heredia y Asociados (drama)
- Mea Culpa (drama)
- Tiempo Final (drama)
- Loco por Tí (Mad About You) (sitcom)
- Los Galindo (sitcom)
- Pasiones (talk show)
- Rojo, Fama Contrafama (reality show)
- Trampas de Seducción (reality show)
See also: List of Chilean television channelses:Televisión Nacional de Chile