National Television of Chile

Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN)
Launched	October 24, 1969
Owned by	State of Chile
Audience share	23.9% (May 2005, [1])
Formerly called	Televisión Nacional de Chile
Website	http://www.tvn.cl
Availability
Terrestrial
Analog	NTSC, in Chile
Analog (Greater Santiago)	7
Analog (Greater Valparaiso)	12
Analog (Greater Concepción)	4
Analog (Arica)	5
Analog (Antofagasta)	6
Analog (La Serena)	4
Analog (Temuco)	7
Analog (Punta Arenas)	6
Digital ISDB-Tb (Greater Santiago)	33

National Television of Chile (TVN) (Televisión Nacional de Chile) is Chilean state-owned television station. Its inaugural transmission took place on 1969. TVN is owned, but not funded, by the state, and it functions independently from it; a very particular case of public television in South America. A board of directors, appointed by the President of the Republic and later ratified by the Senate, oversees control over the station. The distribution of the members of the board tend to coincide with the political composition of the current Congress. That is to say, with a Concertación (the government coalition) majority and an Alianza (right-wing opposition alliance) minority.

Technical details

TVN sends its feed via a 200+ sender network spanning 98% of Chile, using channel frequency 7 in Santiago.

It also operates an external station (TV Chile), that is received via satellite around the world.

Regional networks

TVN broadcasts outside metropolitan area using local repeaters called Redes (Spanish for Networks). Each of these repeat national TVN feed, plus, a local newscast, as well as local advertising. These TVN owned networks are:

• TVN Red Tarapacá (Iquique)
• TVN Red Antofagasta (Antofagasta)
• TVN Red Atacama (Copiapó)
• TVN Red Coquimbo (La Serena)
• TVN Red Valparaíso (Valparaíso)
• TVN Red O'Higgins (Rancagua)
• TVN Red Maule (Talca)
• TVN Red Biobío (Concepción)
• TVN Red Araucanía (Temuco)
• TVN Red Austral (Punta Arenas)

Old TVN logo

Programming

Buddy Richard with Rafael Araneda in Rojo, Fama Contrafama.

TVN broadcasts from 11:00 GMT-06:00 GMT (24 hours a day in TV Chile) and offers a mix of news, variety shows and children's programming. Its primetime is dominated by local dramas, telenovelas and local adaptations of American sitcoms. The most important shows currently airing on the network are^[1]:

• Buenos Días a Todos - Good Morning Everyone (breakfast)
• Hijos del Monte - Del Monte Sons (telenovela)
• Los Pincheira - The Pincheiras (telenovela)
• Dr. House - HOUSE (TV series)
• 24 Horas - 24 hours (newscast)
• El Baile en TVN - Dance on TVN (Chilean version of Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars)
• 31 Minutos - 31 Minutes (children's programming)
• Cachureos - Junk (children's programming)
• Último Minuto - up-to-the-minute (investigative journalism)
• La Ruta de Amazonía - Amazon trail (documentary)
• Hora 25 - 25th hour (culture)
• La Cultura Entretenida - Cultural Intelligence (culture)
• Mea Culpa - Mea Culpa I'm Guilty (docudrama)
• Pasiones - Passions (talk show)
• Rojo, Fama Contrafama Hot, Infamous Fame (defunct Interactive reality-based singing and dancing competition)
• Se Habla Español - Spanish Spoken (tv show) only signal (TV Chile)
• Digan lo que Digan - Whatever (talk show)

Telenovelas

• Amelia (1981)
• Villa Los Aromos (1981)
• De Cara al Mañana (1982)
• La Gran Mentira (1982)
• El Juego de la Vida (1983)
• La torre 10 (1984)
• La represa (1984)
• La Dama del Balcón (1985)
• Morir de Amor (1985)
• Marta a las 8 (1986)
• La Villa (1986)
• Mi Nombre es Lara (1987)
• Bellas y audaces (1988)
• Las Dos Caras del Amor (1988)
• A la Sombra del Angel (1989)
• El milagro de vivir (1990)
• Volver a empezar (1991)
• Trampas y caretas (1992)
• Jaque Mate (1993)
• Ámame (1993)
• Rompecorazón (1994)
• Rojo y Miel (1994)
• Estúpido Cupido (1995)
• Juegos de fuego (1995)
• Sucupira (1996)
• Loca piel (1996)
• Oro verde (1997)
• Tic tac (1997)
• Iorana (1998)
• Borrón y cuenta nueva (1998)
• La fiera (1999)
• Aquelarre (1999)
• Romané (2000)
• Santo Ladrón (2000)
• Pampa Ilusión (2001)
• Amores de mercado (2001)
• El circo de las Montini (2002)
• Purasangre (2002)
• 16 (2003)
• Puertas adentro (2003)
• Pecadores (2003)
• Ídolos (2004)
• Los Pincheira (2004)
• Destinos cruzados (2004)
• Los Treinta (2005)
• 17 (2005)
• Los Capo (2005)
• Versus (2005)
• Amor en tiempo récord (2006)
• Entre medias (2006)
• Cómplices (2006)
• Disparejas (2006)
• Floribella (2006)
• Karkú (2007)
• Corazón de María (2007)
• Alguien te mira (2007)
• Amor por accidente (2007)
• Karkú second season (2008)
• El Señor de la Querencia (2008)
• Viuda Alegre (2008)
• Hijos del Monte (2008)
• Los Exitosos Pells (2009)

Major satellite and cable providers have noted growing demand for TVN to be offered in Canada. TVN was the first Latin American channel to open a channel in YouTube.

See also

• List of Chilean television channels

References

Logos

External links

• Official Site (Spanish)