Televisora Nacional

Televisora Nacional was the first television station (state-owned) to begin operations in Venezuela.

History

On November 22, 1952, the first television station in Venezuela was inaugurated: Televisora Nacional (call sign YVKA-TV), channel five, was a state-owned television station which was installed by Intelec, C.A. (Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones, C.A.), a subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). It was directed by the engineer Luis Gillermo Jiménez Michelena and it relied on Venezuelan and North American professionals.

At 10:15 a.m., the first images appeared. The national coat of arms was projected, there was music (the national anthem), and then, to the surprise of many, the station went off the air. This occurred because a transmitter, which had been leased by the RCA, failed. This failure resulted in an embarrassment to the station's technicians and engineers because in the channel's headquarters, located on Marín Hill, an inaugural ceremony had been prepared. This ceremony was to be presided by Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Germán Suárez Flamerich (then in charge of the governing junta), but due to the transmitter's failure, the ceremony never went on the air. Early the next morning, Televisora Nacional began airing cartoons as part of a test signal, which was hardly seen by anyone, and the government was furious because they had just invested 2.5 million Venezuelan bolívares (2500 bolívares fuertes by face value) to install the first television station in Venezuela.

Finally, on January 1, 1953, YVKA-TV, began transmitting its regular programming.Cite web|url=http://impresodigital.el-nacional.com/aniversario/2002/08/03/|title=Momentos Inolvidables|accessdate=2007-06-26|publisher=El Nacional|year=2002-08-03es icon]

After June 1, 1980, Televisora Nacional, as well as the other television networks in Venezuela, were allowed, by the government of President Luis Herrera Campins, to transmit completely in color. [ [http://www.monografias.com/trabajos13/televis/televis.shtml La televisión - Monografias.com ] ]

In 1989, Televisora Nacional ceased broadcasting due to financial problems. The other Venezuelan state-owned television network, Venezolana de Televisión (VTV, channel 8), from that point on, began using Televisora Nacional's frequency, as well as its own. [ [http://www.aporrea.org/imprime/a36000.html aporrea.org - A la Televisora Nacional (Canal 5) le hicieron una cayapa y la cerraron ] ]

On December 4, 1998, the Venezuelan government handed over the signal of channel five to the Archbishopric of Caracas, and thus Vale TV was born.

ee also

*List of Venezuelan over-the-air television networks and stations
*Venezolana de Televisión

References

External links

* [http://impresodigital.el-nacional.com/aniversario/2002/08/03/ Detailed history of television in Venezuela] es icon
* [http://www.aporrea.org/imprime/a36000.html Article about the Televisora Nacional] es icon