Venezolana de Televisión

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Venezolana de Televisión

Type	Broadcast television network
Branding	VTV
Country	Venezuela
Availability	National
Founder	Grupo Vollmer (an associate of Time-Life)
Slogan	"El Canal de todos los Venezolanos"
Owner	State-Owned Enterprise (Public)
Key people	Willian Lara, Minister of Communication and Information of Venezuela Jesus Romero Anselmi, president VTV
Launch date	August 1, 1964
Past names	Cadena de Venezolana de Televisión (1964)
Analog channel	8
Website	Venezolana de Televisión

Venezolana de Televisión (or VTV) is a state-owned television station that can be seen throughout Venezuela under the signal of channel 8.

1 History
2 Programming
3 Controversies
4 Slogan
5 Trivia
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] History

Cadena de Venezolana de Televisión (CVTV) was inaugurated as a privately owned television station on August 1, 1964 at 7:30pm. President Raúl Leoni was chosen to be the one to cut the ribbon.

In September 1974, CVTV was purchased by the Venezuelan government and rebranded as Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).

Between 1974 and 1980, VTV was funded in whole by the government, but due to an internal economic crisis, VTV was forced to air advertisements for extra revenue (this has no longer been occurring since Hugo Chávez became president in 1999.)

On November 27, 1992, VTV was targeted in a coup attempt. Military officers, fed up with President Carlos Andrés Pérez, attacked the station. Ten station employees were killed.

VTV has been known to produce a few telenovelas over the years. They included titles such as Infigenia, La Doña Perfecta, and La Dueña. 1984's La Dueña was perhaps its most successful and popular productions. In 2004, VTV produced another telenovela, Amores de Barrio Adentro, but it was only seen once a week and lasted only a few months.

CVTV logo from August 1, 1964 to September 1974

VTV logo from September 1974 to 1979

VTV logo from 1979 to 1984

VTV logo from 1984 to 1986

VTV logo from 1986 to 2003

Logo used alongside the 1986 logo in 1992

Logo used alongside the 1986 logo between 1998 and 1999. Similar to CBC's logo

VTV logo from 2003 to 2005

VTV logo from 2005 to April 30, 2006

VTV logo from April 30, 2006. This is the current logo.

[edit] Programming

Current shows that can be seen on VTV include:

Al Soberano
La Hojilla - With Mario Silva (Monday and Wednesdays at 10:30pm and Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays at 10pm)
Al Momento - With María Teresa Gutiérrez (Monday to Friday from 10am to 12pm)
Cómo ustedes pueden ver
Tomar la palabra
Poder Popular
La Librería Mediática - With Marialcira Matute (Tuesdays and Fridays at 4pm and Saturdays at 1:30pm)
Diálogo abierto - With Jorge Arreaza (Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9pm to 10pm)
Contragolpe - With Vanessa Davies (Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9 to 10pm)
En Confianza - With Ernesto Villegas (Monday to Friday from 6:30 to 8am)
La Réplica - With Eileen Padrón and Nestor Francia (La Hojilla formers)
Kultura Rock - With Paul Gillman and Oscar López as its producer (Fridays at 10:30pm)
VTV Deportes
Campeones Amateur - With Merly García (Fridays 5:30pm to 6pm and Saturdays from 12:30pm to 1pm)
La Noticia - VTV's news program (which was under the name "VTV Noticias" for about a year)
Noticias TeleSUR
Noticias Asamblea Nacional
Aló Presidente
Zona 8
Dossier (was conducted and produced by the acclaimed Walter Martinez). It used to be seen every week night at 10pm but it has since been canceled.

You can see VTV's programming chart for this week at: http://www.vtv.gov.ve/PautaPrograma.htm. For those persons who can't read in the Spanish language, "Hora" is "Hour", "Lunes" is "Monday", "Martes" is "Tuesday", "Miercoles" is "Wednesday", "Jueves" is "Thursday", "Viernes" is "Friday", "Sabado" is "Saturday", and "Domingo" is "Sunday".

[edit] Controversies

During the Presidency of Hugo Chávez, it is alleged that VTV has been used by the government as an instrument to campaign against Venezuela's opposition and Venezuela's privately owned media (Venevisión, Globovisión, Televen, and Radio Caracas Televisión). On the evening of the April 11 Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002 against Chávez, Enrique Mendoza, then governor of Venezuela's Miranda State, while being interviewed by Venevisión announced "a esa basura de canal la vamos a cerrar" ("We are going to shut down that trashy channel"). He was obviously referring to VTV. Hours later, the Miranda state police occupied VTV and forced it off the air. It remained off the air until April 14, 2002, when Chávez was returned to power.

In 2005, the program Dossier was cancelled because its host and producer, Walter Martínez, criticized the government. Martínez mentioned that he was hunting some members of the government involved in corruption, indicating that he had proof. The government asked for an apology (which he didn't give) and forced Dossier off the air.

[edit] Slogan

VTV's slogan is "El Canal de todos los Venezolanos", or "The channel of all Venezuelans". It had changed temporarily to "Desde adentro", or "From inside" but it has since been changed back.

[edit] Trivia

The first state-owned television station was the now defunct Televisora Nacional (channel 5) which was inaugurated on November 22, 1952 (also the first television station in Venezuelan history).

Almost every Sunday, starting at 11am, VTV broadcasts President Hugo Chávez's program Aló Presidente uninterrupted.

Venezuelan musician Simón Díaz (Tío Simón) used to have a show on VTV back in the 1990s called "Contesta por Tío Simón" and he appeared in another program called "Vacaciones con Tío Simón".

VTV's current president is Jesús Romero Anselmi. Former VTV presidents include Vladimir Villegas (who is the brother of Ernesto Villegas), Andrés Izarra, Blanca Eeckout, Maripili Hernández, and back in the 1980's, journalist Marta Colomina.

Jesús Romero Anselmi was the president of VTV before Vladimir Villegas became its president in 2002. In 2005, Romero Anselmi became VTV's president again.

During Rafael Caldera's second term as president, there were plans to privatize VTV. It failed when it was realized that VTV would probably not be profitable.

Venezolana de Televisión was the first TV station in Venezuela to broadcast a foreign made telenovela in 1969. It was called "Mi Maestro" and it was imported from Mexico.