Televisora Regional del Táchira
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| Type | Broadcast Television Network |
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| Branding | TRT |
| Country |  Venezuela |
| Availability | Táchira State, southern Zulia State, northeastern Barinas State, northern Apure State (in Venezuela), Norte de Santander Department, and northern Arauca department (in Colombia) |
| Slogan | "Siempre Contigo" |
| Key people | José Avendaño, President of TRT |
| Launch date | July 24, 1989 |
| Website | TRT |
The Televisora Regional del Táchira, TRT for short, is a privately owned regional television channel located in the city of San Cristóbal in the Tachira State of Venezuela. Including the Tachira State, TRT can be seen in the southern part of the Zulia State, northeastern Barinas State, and northern Apure State in Venezuela. Its signal can also be seen in Colombia in the Norte de Santander department and northern Arauca department. It can be seen on channel 6.
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[edit] History
At the beginning of the year 1983, a group of businessmen from Tachira, came up with the idea of a television station that brings information from the Tachira region to its inhabitants and that promotes the region’s culture. Later, other businessmen from other parts of Venezuela became involved and helped create and fund the group of companies that make up TRT.
La Televisora Regional del Táchira, S.A., was established sometime in the middle of March of 1984 and on February 17, 1988 the Venezuelan Ministry of Transportation and Communications (Ministerio de Transporte y Comunicaciones, now divided into the Ministerio de Infraestructura and the Ministerio de Communicacion e Informacion, the latter being responsible for television and radio broadcasting) approved the operation license for a new television station. At the beginning of the year 1989, the construction of a transmitting station, located on a hill named "Gallinero" in Palmira, Guásimos municipality, was completed. This transmitting station enabled TRT to finally go on the air. TRT signal reaches most of the Táchira State, some parts of the Apure State, the southern part of the Zulia State, the northern part of the Arauca department in Colombia, and some parts of the Norte de Santander department in Colombia.
On July 24, 1989, TRT began its test signal (on channel 6). Its test signal constisted of a color test pattern and the network's music. On October 15, 1989, at 8pm, a soccer (football) game was transmitted from the Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo stadium in the city of San Cristóbal. It was on Friday, November 24, 1989, that the inaugural ball was celebrated in San Cristóbal’s opera house (important Venezuelan personalities came to this ball, including president Carlos Andrés Pérez). This was when TRT began its regular programming.
With the need to improve their initial coverage, another transmitting station (called "El Rayo", located in the municipality of Pedro María Ureña in the Táchira State), was constructed, and finally became functional on March 25, 1994. This new transmitting station completely covered the Norte de Santander Department in Colombia, the southern Zulia State, the Zamora municipality in the Barinas State, the Páez Municipality in the Apure State, and improved its signal in the Táchira State.
[edit] Programming
You can see TRT's programming chart for this week at: http://www.televisoradeltachira.com/contenido/programacion/adjuntar/programacion.jpg. For select past weeks you can see it at: http://www.televisoraregionaldeltachira.com/formato/imagenes/imagen_programacion/. For those who can't read in the Spanish language, "Lunes" is "Monday", "Martes" is "Tuesday", "Miercoles" is "Wednesday", "Jueves" is "Thursday", "Viernes" is "Friday", "Sabado" is "Saturday", and "Domingo" is "Sunday". When a show is labeled with the letters PN, it means that the show is made in Venezuela.
[edit] Controversies
The host of the program, "Café con Azócar", Gustavo Azócar, was arrested on March 6, 2006, by metropolitan police of the Táchira State after a complaint filed by Ana Casanova in the year 2000 —who was a prosecutor that year— over alleged irregularities in the transmissions of advertisements for the state lottery on Radio de San Cristóbal (now know as 1060 AM), where Azócar worked as a general coordinator.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official Site (Spanish)
