Television channel in Bogota, Colombia
Television channel
Teletigre
, also known as
TV-9 TeleBogota
, is
Colombia
's first private
television channel
, founded by journalist and politician
Consuelo Salgar de Montejo
, who won a state bid against
Caracol TV
,
RTI Colombia
, and Producciones Punch. It is now operating as a Digital Channel through Youtube and is owned by "
La Casa Editorial el Bogotano
."
Its signal only reached
Bogota
,
Cundinamarca
,
Tolima
, and part of
Huila
,
[1]
and broadcast daily, from 17:30 to 22:30, on
Channel 9
, hence its alternative name.
The channel partnered with
U.S.
network
ABC
(which owned 50% of the stocks)
[1]
and relied on imported programming.
[2]
According to a newspaper ad published on its inaugural day,
[3]
Teletigre's first week of programming included mostly American shows as
I Love Lucy
,
The Munsters
,
Flipper
,
Gunsmoke
,
77 Sunset Strip
,
Route 66
,
M Squad
,
Hong Kong
, and
The Twilight Zone
, with a few local shows, such as a kids' show, a women's programme and a newscast, comprising the rest of the programming.
Teletigre closed for political reasons
[2]
(allegedly to the fact that the government was concerned of the power that it had handed to one individual, in this case Ms Salgar, in the then new mass media). Therefore the government decided not to renew the station broadcast licence to a single party. It would be replaced by
Tele 9 Corazon
, a local channel in state hands and, in 1972, by the
Segunda Cadena
, which would become a national network.
Colombia would not have broadcast private television channels until July 1998, when Caracol TV and
RCN TV
, two former
programadoras
owned by two of the main Colombian conglomerates, started full broadcasts after being granted two new private national concessions the year before; as of 2020, they remain the only national broadcast TV private licensees.
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