Caracol TV

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**Caracol Televisión S.A.**

Type	Broadcast Television Network
Branding	Canal Caracol
Country	Colombia
Availability	Colombia, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Spain, Venezuela, United States
Founded	1955 (as a TV production company)
Slogan	(Spanish) Más cerca de ti (English) Closer To You
Broadcast area	Colombia
Owner	Julio Mario Santo Domingo
Key people	Paulo Laserna Phillips, CEO
Launch date	1998 (as a TV network)
Affiliates	gentv RTI Telemundo
Website www.caracoltv.com

Caracol Televisión (Acronym: Cadena Radial Colombiana - Televisión) is a Colombian private national television network, owned by Julio Mario Santo Domingo.

1 History
2 gentv
3 Shows produced and/or broadcast by Caracol TV
4 Primetime schedule
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

Caracol Televisión started in 1954 when Organización de Radiodifusora Caracol offered to afford national television costs, then state-run, through commercial spots. At that time its board (Fernando Londoño Henao, Cayetano Betancourt, Carlos Sanz de Santamaría, Pedro Navas, and Germán Montoya) started to suggest the possibility of establishing the first television station in Colombia. One year later that idea was accepted and they decided to share the rights with Radiodifusora Nacional, the state-run company operating Colombian television, creating TVC (Televisión Comercial Ltda.), a company which lasted two years.

In 1967, Inravisión awarded through a public bidding the then production/programming company 45 hours a week; because of this, the then Caracol Radio became Caracol Televisión S.A., having TV shows' marketing and production as its main goal. In 1987 Valores Bavaria group became the main stockholder and prompted a technical and administrative modernization to the company.

On November 24, 1997 Caracol Televisión was granted a licence as a "private-operated national channel" for 10 years from Colombia's National Television Commission (CNTV). The other licence went to RCN Televisión. This implied a plan in order to make the infrastructure which was used to produce 10.5 hours a week would have to work to have on air 18 hours a day of general programming since July 1998.

In 2000 Caracol TV strengthened a deal with marketing television company TEPUY, and next year signed a telenovela co-production deal with RTI and Telemundo and a short lived deal with Buena Vista International. In 2004 Caracol TV Internacional was launched.

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In December 2005, Caracol TV bought a 25% stake of Miami, Florida television station WGEN-TV. Programming on WGEN includes Colombian and Brazilian telenovelas, a news program produced in Colombia, an original US-produced variety comedy series entitled La Boca Loca de Paul, hosted by Paul Bouche, and a local version of Desafío 20.06, a reality show similar to Survivor^[1]. Some of Caracol TV's telenovelas were remade for MyNetworkTV in the US, such as Desire, based on Mesa Para Tres (Table for Three).

[edit] Shows produced and/or broadcast by Caracol TV

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[edit] Telenovelas

La Baby Sister
La Saga, Negocio de Familia
Pasión de gavilanes
Pedro el escamoso
Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso
Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa
La Sucursal del Cielo
Nuevo Rico Nuevo Pobre
¿Quién amará a María?
El Cartel de los Sapos (also known simply as "El Cartel")

[edit] News / journalism

Noticias Caracol
Séptimo día

[edit] Reality shows / Game shows

Beauty and the Geek (La bella y el nerdo)
Big Brother (TV series) (Gran hermano, one season)
The Singing Bee (Dígalo cantando)
The Apprentice (El aprendiz, one season)
Sábados Felices, comedy show (on air since 1972)

[edit] Series

Inspector Rex

[edit] Animation

Captain Tsubasa (Supercampeones)
Card Captor Sakura (Sakura Card Captors)
Dragon Ball
Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics (Cuentos de los hermanos Grimm)
Neon Genesis Evangelion

[edit] Primetime schedule

Telenovelas are in purple, series are in blue, news/opinion/documentary programming are in brown, reality/game/variety shows are in orange, movies are in red.

Caracol TV	19:00	19:30	20:00	20:30	21:00	21:30	22:00	22:30	23:00	23:30
Sunday	Noticias Caracol (Mábel Lara)	19:35 Séptimo día	20:15 Dígalo cantando		21:10 Premier Caracol				23:05 Noches de Premier
Monday	Noticias Caracol (Jorge Alfredo Vargas, María Lucía Fernández)		El cartel		Nuevo Rico Nuevo Pobre	Cómplices	Noticias Caracol (Silvia Corzo, D'arcy Quinn)	Montecristo	El radar	La pasión según nuestros días
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday	Noticias Caracol (Mábel Lara)	19:45 ¿Quién quiere ser millonario?		20:45 Sábados Felices					23:15 Entre ojos (documentary features)

As for the week of 3 to 9 June 2007 (holiday special programming not included here; El cartel started on 5 June). Broadcasting times, all in UTC-5, may vary, except for Noticias Caracol and El Radar.