RCTV
RCTV is a private television broadcaster from Caracas , Venezuela . Due to the loss of the broadcasting license for its terrestrial frequencies, it can only broadcast its programs via cable, satellite and the Internet. RCTV is an acronym for R adio C aracas T ele V isión.
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history
RCTV was founded by the British-Venezuelan entrepreneur William H. Phelps on November 15, 1953. RCTV is the oldest television station in Venezuela. On July 21, 1969, RCTV and Televisora Nacional broadcast the first human moon landing for Venezuela . The station is best known for its telenovelas such as B. La Madamme . In 1970, RCTV was the first Venezuelan television station to broadcast a World Cup . RCTV began broadcasting in color in 1980. In 1981, the government temporarily closed RCTV for 36 hours due to too many “sensationalist exaggerations” and false news from the Christian Democratic government. In 1982, RCTV founded Coral International to market its programs internationally. RCTV is part of the 1BC group of companies .
After the broadcast license in the terrestrial VHF band, which expired in May 2007, was not renewed, RCTV could not be received via cable and satellite for 50 days and instead used YouTube as a platform for broadcasting news programs. In addition, parts of the program were broadcast by other broadcasters, such as B. Globovisión shown.
On July 16, 2007, RCTV resumed broadcasting its regular pay-TV programs via cable and satellite under the new name RCTV Internacional .
On January 24, 2010, by order of the Venezuelan government, the broadcasting of RCTV via Venezuelan cable TV providers was temporarily stopped because RCTV refused to comply with applicable laws for national broadcasters. Since RCTV International denies 94% of its broadcast content from national production, the broadcaster must also comply with national laws. In response, the 1BC group of companies announced on February 22nd, 2010 that it wanted to found a channel RCTV Mundo , with 70% broadcast content from international production, and that it wanted to continue the channel RCTV International in compliance with national laws. Both channels should be available in Venezuela.
Political problems
RCTV has an opposing political stance towards Hugo Chavez's government . The government has accused the station of having promoted both the failed attempt at a military coup on April 11, 2002 and a failed general strike by Chavez opponents.
The broadcaster is also accused of broadcasting the press conference held by the Army Inspector General Luis Rincon, in which he said that Chavez had accepted his resignation. According to Andrés Izarra, then an employee of RCTV, the newsroom was forbidden, among other things, to report on demonstrations against the military coup. When the coup government collapsed under public pressure, only cartoons and series were shown on the station instead of news. As a result, Izarra left RCTV and became Minister for Communication and Information, and later head of teleSUR . According to the documentary X-ray of a Lie , newsrooms were generally unable to produce news because the studios were attacked by angry Chavistas and it would have been a threat to the reporters' physical integrity to take to the streets at the time .
On December 28, 2006, Hugo Chavez announced that he would not be renewing the broadcasting permit for the transmitter in the terrestrial VHF band, which expired in May 2007. According to polls by the polling institute Datanalisis - an entrepreneur who normally conducts surveys on behalf of opposition parties - in the run-up to the change, over 70% of the population were against the expiry of the broadcasting permit. On the one hand there were rallies that were organized by the government and welcomed the measures, but there were also mass protests in which students in particular took part. Riots broke out during the march on May 28 to the headquarters of the State Media Commission.
Instead of RCTV, the public broadcaster TVes began broadcasting on May 28, 2007 without re-tendering the broadcast frequency . In order to ensure a smooth transition, RCTV, based on two resolutions from 1969 and 1973, according to which the buildings and structures erected by RCTV on public land, including those built by RCTV on public land, had to be ruled by a decision of the Venezuelan Supreme Court, with a majority of Chávez-friendly judges Transmission antennas, which are the sole property of the state, temporarily leave the transmission equipment to the new transmitter. RCTV's slot on DirecTV's 104 satellite channel has also been replaced by TVes.
On July 16, 2007, RCTV resumed its round-the-clock operation via cable and satellite. Telecommunications Minister Jesse Chacón stated that this refuted the version that the station had been shut down by the government and pointed out that it could be broadcast via cable as early as May 28th.
However, RCTV has so far refused to register with the national telecommunications authority Conatel as a national broadcaster, as required by the government, in order not to have to participate in the so-called cadenas (chains) in which all national radio and TV stations in the country have to participate at the same time broadcast government proclamations. Conatel had set RCTV a deadline of August 2, 2007 for registration, against which the broadcaster and the Venezuelan Association of Pay TV Broadcasters successfully defended themselves in court. The Venezuelan Supreme Court ruled against the immediate closure of the station due to "lack of legal definitions of which station is national or international". However, RCTV boss Granier spoke of a government maneuver "to create a legal pretext for the final closure".
It is estimated that only 35% of the Venezuelan population can be reached via cable or satellite TV, as this is not affordable for many families at around € 10 a month. The terrestrial broadcast, however, had a range of 98% of the population.
Others
- The quiz show, ¿Quién Quiere Ser Millonario? ( Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ) Is a franchise of the UK quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? . Eladio Lárez, the president of RCTV, is the quiz master of the program. ¿Quién Quiere Ser Millonario? was one of the most popular programs in Venezuela and was broadcast once a week.
- The humorous program Radio Rochela (1958-) is the oldest television program in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records . The one-hour program ran once a week.
- Marcel Granier, one of the owners of the RCTV, was the moderator of the Primer Plano interview program . Every Sunday Granier invited a political person to the program and spoke to her about Venezuelan political issues.
- A lion is RCTV's official mascot.
- In 2006, RCTV was sued for broadcasting phone sex ads with "high sexual content" images during its late night programming. The Supreme Court prohibits the channel from making such displays.
Web links
- Radio Caracas TeleVisión (Spanish)
- /english/docs/2007/05/22/venezu15986.htm Venezuela: TV Shutdown Harms Free Expression . Statement by the human rights organization Human Rights Watch on the shutdown of RCTV
- ROG report on Venezuela: "Closure of RCTV consolidates media hegemony" Statement by Reporters Without Borders
Individual evidence
- ↑ rnv.gov.ve ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ rctvintl.com ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FAZ.net: Venezuela: The fight for television
- ↑ a b teleSURtv.net: RCTV reinicia transmisiones por televisión paga y despeja alegatos de "cierre" ( Memento of the original of September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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↑ Conatel reitera que RCTVI debe obedecer leyes venezolanas por ser productora nacional. (No longer available online.) In: teleSUR. February 12, 2010, archived from the original on October 20, 2011 ; Retrieved May 1, 2010 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Canal RCTVI se puso a derecho con leyes venezolanas. (No longer available online.) In: teleSUR. February 22, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 1, 2010 (Spanish). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Declaration by the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Federal Republic of Germany on May 22, 2007 ( Memento of the original of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ elcomerciodigital from June 3, 2007 elcomerciodigital.com
- ↑ Information instead of freedom
- ↑ Report in Spiegel-Online, June 2, 2007 "Protest against Chávez - sweets for the demonstrators"
- ^ Venezuela after 8 years of Hugo Chávez
- ↑ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: Where is Venezuela heading? On the politics of President Hugo Chávez (PDF; 215 kB)
- ↑ Equipos de transmisión no pertenecen a RCTV ( Memento of the original of December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ RCTV must provide antennas
- ↑ El Comercio.com.pe: RCTV de Venezuela volverá el 16 de julio a través de la televisión por cable
- ↑ RCTV transmitirá por DirecTV a finales de julio ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ELPAIS.com: El Supremo de Venezuela permite a Radio Caracas TV seguir emitiendo of August 2, 2007
- ↑ young world: coup channel RCTV remains irreconcilable from August 3, 2007
- ↑ ELPAIS.com: La televisión prohibida por Chávez volverá por cable y satélite of July 9, 2007
- ↑ Prohibida publicidad de images con alto contenido sexual en canal de televisión privada . Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de Venezuela . May 11, 2006. Archived from the original on December 6, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 31, 2007. (Spanish)
