Noticias Caracol
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| Noticias Caracol | |
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 Noticias Caracol title card since 10 October 2007 |
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| Format | News |
| Directed by | Lucía Madriñán Saa, Darío Fernando Patiño |
| Presented by | Rosa María Corcho, Silvia Corzo, María Lucía Fernández, Mábel Lara, D'arcy Quinn, Inés María Zabaraín, Jorge Alfredo Vargas, Juan Roberto Vargas, et al. |
| Slogan | Para ver lo que pasa, Noticias Caracol ("To watch what happens, Noticias Caracol") |
| Country of origin |  Colombia |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| Production | |
| Running time | weekdays 07:00: 90 minutes weekdays 12:30: 90 minutes weekdays 19:00: 80 minutes (may vary) weekdays 22:00: 30 minutes weekends 12:30: 60 minutes weekends 19:00: 40 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Caracol TV |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Original run | 1998 (as Caracol Noticias) – present |
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| Official website | |
Noticias Caracol (until 9 October 2007 Caracol Noticias) is Colombia's Caracol TV newscast. It is broadcast four times on weekdays and twice on weekends.
The News Centre was built in nine months before Caracol Noticias first airing, on 10 July 1998. Canadian company Imageneering acted as a consultant.
Before becoming a network, Caracol TV produced the morning newscast 7:30 Caracol in the mid-1990s. Several well-known Colombian journalists, such as Claudia Palacios, Érika Fontalvo, and María Cristina Uribe were also presenters of Caracol Noticias. Yamid Amat was its director until March 2002.
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[edit] Sections
Noticias Caracol newscasts are divided in sections, grouped in three blocks: "serious" news (regional, national, world news, weather, health), sports, and entertainment. For the world news, Noticias Caracol has signed some agreements with services such as APTN, Reuters, Telemundo, and CNN en Español. Noticias Caracol is also part of the Alianza Informativa Latinoamericana, with ATV (Peru), Ecuavisa (Ecuador), Monte Carlo TV (Uruguay), Telefé (Argentina), Megavisión (Chile), RCTV (Venezuela), TV Azteca (Mexico), and Unitel (Bolivia). This alliance allows Noticias Caracol to use the services of journalists working for the member networks as foreign correspondents in their respective countries. Some of the stories are available at its website as video on demand, as well as at El Espectador's website. Both media outlets are owned by Julio Mario Santo Domingo.
[edit] Weekdays
The 07:00 newscast focuses on national news —most of them from the day before—, sports, regional news, world news, and entertainment. On this newscast, guests are invited to the set to be interviewed by the presenters. It includes a weather forecast, supported by IDEAM, Colombia's meteorological institute, and a section named ¿Qué pasó con?, where viewers can learn what happened with an old story previously covered on the newscast.
The 12:30 newscast is the longest of all (it ends around 14:00), with national, world and sports news. It includes a health section, in charge by doctor Fernanda Hernández, Con-sumo cuidado (a section on rights of the consumers), and Caracol más cerca, where a journalist travels around the country in order to show its diversity. The entertainment block is known as Del otro mundo.
The 19:00 newscast is Noticias Caracol flagship news show, where the main events, stories and developments of the day are summarized. It has no health section but it does include a Caracol más cerca abridged section, and Código Caracol, where some political events and gossip are revealed.
The 22:00 newscast lasts 30 minutes. Includes a culture section called Sala múltiple, instead the entertainment block. Its broadcasting time had been progressively moved from 21:30 to 22:00, 22:30, 23:00, 23:45, and midnight.
[edit] Weekends
The Noticias Caracol 12:30 and 19:00 newscasts on weekends tend to follow the three block rule more conventionally.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Noticias Caracol
- (Spanish) About Noticias Caracol
