Avila TV

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**Avila Televisión**

Type	Broadcast Television network
Branding	Avila TV
Country	Venezuela
Availability	Caracas, channel 47 UHF
Founder	Juan Barreto
Slogan	No has visto nada
Owner	Caracas Metropolitan District Mayor of Caracas State-Owned Enterprise
Key people	Willian Lara, Minister of Communication and Information Juan Barreto, Mayor of Caracas/President of Avila TV
Launch date	July 6, 2006
Analog channel	47
Website	Avila TV Site (Spanish)

Avila TV is a regional television channel created by the Venezuelan government and the Caracas metropolitan mayor, Juan Barreto. It was inaugurated on July 6, 2006 with an investment of about 11,000,000,000 bolívares (or about 5,100,000 United States dollars). It now can be seen in the metropolitan area of Caracas on UHF channel 47 and is seen 24-hours a day.

[edit] Programming

Avila TV has a very urban-oriented programming, which are mostly independently made by contemporary young producers with a very fresh view on art, culture, and counterculture in general. They also features foreign programs from other Latin American countries, as well as old movies.

On October 21,2006, Avila TV is inaugurated, then oficially broadcasting its signal in full-time, 24x7 programming, showing a mixed-up format programming which includes both short clips or common 30 min. / 1 hour length programs. Some of them are:

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