Telecaribe
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 Colombia |
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| City of license | Barranquilla |
| Branding | Regional |
| Slogan | Nuestro Canal Sin Fronteras (Our Channel without Frontiers) |
| Channels | satellite signal Intelsat 806 analog |
| Affiliations | Intelsat |
| Owner | state owned |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Website | (Spanish) www.telecaribe.com.co |
Telecaribe is a regional television network for the Caribbean region of Colombia.
[edit] History
The station was set up in the early 1980s in Valledupar, Colombia and was created by a local entrepreneur named Jose Jorge Dangond. It started as a pirate TV station and as a personal hobby with aficionado equipment brought from the United States, transmitting American movies and local vallenato musical groups, including first versions of the Vallenato Legend Festival. Dangond's family and friends in Valledupar nicknamed it TeleCabulla or TV rope because all the antennas and equipment were attached with ropes onto one of the highest buildings in the city.
By 1986 the Colombian Ministry of Communications detected the pirate signal of the channel and seized all the equipment. Dangond then started a legal battle to legalize the channel, which developed into a congressional proposal to create regional TV channels for every region of Colombia. Therefore was born Telecaribe, Teleantioquia, telepacifico and others.
This same year the station formally became Telecaribe and the main equipment and studios were then moved to Barranquilla where it continued to develop and cover all of Colombia's Caribbean region by setting up franchises or TV stations in the seven major cities of this region.
TELECARIBE is the third national TV channel most watched in northern Colombia.
[edit] External links
- Official Site (Spanish)
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