Meridiano Televisión

Meridiano Televisión

Type	Broadcast Television Network
Country	Venezuela
Availability	National
Owner	Bloque De Armas
Key people	Martin De Armas, President Bloque De Armas Dr. Andres De Armas, Vice-president Bloque De Armas Armando De Armas, Vice-president Bloque De Armas Juan Andres Daza, General Manager Meridiano Televisión Armando Rafael De Armas, General Director Meridiano Televisión
Launch date	1996
Analogue channel	37 and 39
Official website	http://www.meridiano.com.ve

Meridiano Televisión is a 24-hour sports network in Venezuela.

History

Meridiano Televisión was created in 1996 as a privately owned television network in Venezuela, exclusively dedicated to national and international sports. Its owned by Bloque De Armas, a company that is also the owner the newspaper, Diario Meridiano, which also specializes in sports.

With many similarities to the sport network ESPN, Meridiano Televisión transmits almost all sporting events, mainly baseball (the Major League of Baseball and the Venezuelan League of Professional Baseball) because it is considered to be the Venezuelan national sport. Also, sporting events that are popular in Venezuela and that are widely seen on Meridiano Televisión are Venezuela First Division games, the Spanish La Liga, the Frenz International Cup, the AFF Cup, and the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Euro 2012 among others.

Programming

The most watched programs on Meridiano Televisión are:

Noticiero Meridiano (3 broadcasts a day)
La Voz del Fanatico (sport talk show with Alejandro Pacheco)
Solo Basket

External links

Official website (Spanish)

Television stations in Venezuela

Major national public networks	Venezolana de Televisión (Since 1964) ViVe (Since 2003) TVes (Since 2007) TV FANB (Since 2013) TV ConCiencia (Since 2013)

Major national private networks	Venevisión (Since 1961) Televen (Since 1988) Globovisión (Since 1994) Meridiano Televisión (Since 1997) Vale TV (Since 1998)

Major commercial regional networks	Canal i TVS TVO NCTV TRT Promar TV Llano

Cable and satellite channels	ANTV (Since 2005) teleSUR (Since 2005) Sun Channel (Since 2007) Ve Plus TV (Since 2012)

Defunt channels	RCTV TV Network (1953-2007) / TV Cable (2007-2010) La Tele (2002-2015) Flamingo Televisión (1990-2000) ATEL (2003-2013)

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