DW (Latinoamérica)

DW (Latinoamérica) is the regional version of official German TV Deutsche Welle for the Americas. The program orients itself towards news and information and was relaunched on 6 February 2012.[1] The program is broadcast via cable and satellite and produced in Berlin.

DW (Latinoamérica)
Owned by DW
Picture format 16:9
Slogan "Desde el corazón de Europa (until 2012)" (Spanish)
Language Spanish
German
Broadcast area Americas
Website mediacenter.dw.de/spanish/live/
Availability
Satellite
Intelsat 9 (America) 3840 H 27690-7/8
DirecTV Latin America Channel 770
SKY Mexico (Mexico) Channel 279
Telefónica TV Digital (Chile, Colombia) Channel 438
Cable Mágico Satelital (South America) Channel 438
GVT (Brazil) Channel 146
SKY Brasil (Brazil) Channel 110
Nossa TV (Brazil) Channel
Telefónica TV Digital (Brazil) Channel 450
Via Embratel (Brazil) Channel 134

History

DW-TV began as RIAS-TV, a television station launched by the West Berlin broadcaster RIAS (Radio in the American Sector / Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor) in August 1988. The fall of the Berlin Wall the following year and German reunification in 1990 meant that RIAS-TV was to be closed down. On 1 April 1992 Deutsche Welle inherited the RIAS-TV broadcast facilities, using them to start a German- and English-language television channel broadcast via satellite, DW-TV, adding a short Spanish broadcast segment in November of the same year. In 1995 it began 24-hour operation (12 hours German, 10 hours English, 2 hours Spanish). At that time DW-TV introduced a new news studio and a new logo. Since 6 February 2012 Deutsche Welle made a corporate relaunch and uses the abbreviation DW for all its services. At the very same time Deutsche Welle revised the complete TV program, since 2012 the Latin American desk airs 20 hours of Spanish program daily, and from 30 September 2013 it broadcasts 24 hours in Spanish.[2][3]

Reception

DW broadcasts for Latin America especially targeted talk shows produced both in Berlin and Latin America. [4] 2012 DW (Latinoamérica) launched its own YouTube Channel.[5] DW (Latinoamérica) is available on INTELSAT-21.[6]

Programs

Business

Culture

Documentaries and features

Lifestyle and entertainment

News and politics

Talk shows

Science

Sports and cars

Staff

Editors:

Anchor:

DW-TV building in Berlin.
DW-TV logo to the 5 February 2012

Time Schedule UTC | Americas

Países UTC
Argentina, Brazil SP, RJ etc., Uruguay UTC-3
Bolivia, Western Brazil, Chile, Paraguay UTC-4
Venezuela UTC-4.30
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama,
Mexico, US (Florida, New York), Peru
UTC-5
Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica,
Mexico (DF, Nuevo León), US (Texas etc.), Honduras
UTC-6
Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora etc.)
US (Arizona, Colorado etc.)
UTC-7
Mexico (Baja California) US (California) UTC-8

External links

References

  1. http://broadcastengineering.com/news/deutsche-welle-joins-broadcasting-rush-latin-america
  2. http://www.satellitecardsharing.com/deutsche-welle-continues-to-grow-in-latin-america/
  3. http://www.dw.de/steady-success-in-latin-america/a-16744186
  4. http://www.dw.de/dw-latinoam%C3%A9rica/a-15715276
  5. http://www.youtube.com/user/DeutscheWelleEspanol.
  6. http://www.dw.de/reception-information-for-america-and-latin-america/a-15686749
  7. http://www.dw.de/programa/programaci%C3%B3n/s-6309-9797
  8. http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien/neuausrichtung-neue-deutsche-welle/6133962.html
  9. http://www.elalmeria.es/article/almeria/1514214/las/entranas/la/television/alemana/con/acento/espanol.html
  10. http://www.elsur.cl/impresa/2012/03/30/full/23/