RCTV
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Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV and sometimes referred to as the Canal de Bárcenas) was a Venezuelan free-to-air television network headquartered in the Caracas neighborhood of Quinta Crespo and owned by Empresas 1BC. Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) was inaugurated on 15 November 1953 by William H. Phelps, Jr.
Key facts
- Television channel.name
- Radio Caracas Televisión
- Television channel.logo
- Image:RCTV 2007.png
- Television channel.logo_size
- 150px
- Television channel.caption
- Logo of Radio Caracas Televisión from 9 November 1996 until 27 May 2007.
- Television channel.founder
- William H. Phelps Jr.
- Television channel.closed_date
- (as a terrestrial network)
- Television channel.picture_format
- 480i SDTV
- Television channel.owner
- Empresas 1BC
- Television channel.headquarters
- Caracas, Venezuela
- Television channel.country
- Venezuela
- Television channel.language
- Spanish
- Television channel.parent
- Radio Caracas Televisión RCTV, C.A.
- Television channel.key_people
- Marcel GranierPeter BottomeEladio Lárez (Pres., RCTV)
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Encyclopedic overview
26 sectionsContents
- History
- 1953 to 1960
- 1960 to 1970
- 1970 to 1980
- 1980 to 1990
- 1990 to 2000
- 2000 to 2007
- 2007 shutdown
- Background
- End of concession
- RCTV interpretation
- National reactions
- International reactions
- IACHR
- Impact
- RCTV interpretation
- National reactions
- International reactions
- IACHR
- Impact
- 2007–2010: broadcasting on pay television
- 2010-2021 – Other media
- News and broadcasts
- See also
- References
- External links
Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV and sometimes referred to as the Canal de Bárcenas) was a Venezuelan free-to-air television network headquartered in the Caracas neighborhood of Quinta Crespo and owned by Empresas 1BC. Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) was inaugurated on 15 November 1953 by William H. Phelps, Jr.
Its radio counterpart was Radio Caracas Radio.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RCTV” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.