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2011 Viña del Mar International Song Festival

2011 Viña del Mar International Song Festival
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Directed by Juan Pablo González
Presented by Rafael Araneda
Eva Gómez
Country of origin Chile
Production
Producer(s) Pablo Morales
Claudio Cabezas
Antonio Vodanovic
Location(s) Viña del Mar, Chile
Running time 270 minutes
Release
Original network Chilevisión
Picture format 480i (SDTV),
1080p (HDTV)
Original release February 21 – February 26, 2011
External links
Website www.chilevision.cl/home/index.php?option=com_staticchv&task=view&object=inicio&Itemid=2750

The Viña del Mar International Song Festival 2011 was released from February 21, 2011 until Saturday February 26, 2011. The musical event was broadcast for first time via Chilean TV channel Chilevisión.

The new tender for the festival, was awarded to Chilean television channel Chilevisión, which submitted a bid to 1,316,368 UF, equivalent to $28,565,238,082 (CLP), and $52,383,668.40 (USD). The other offers Delivered by the other two interested TV channels were: Mega with 60,888 UF, equivalent to $1,321,272,028 (CLP), and $2,422,982.63 (USD) and TVN with 862,112 UF, equivalent to $18,707,864,771 (CLP), and $34,306,963.65 (USD). Finally, the international festival was committed to Chilevisión for the next four years, until 2014.

On July 1, 2010, Vicente Sabatini was the tentative director of the event but Alex Hernández was later confirmed, and the pre-party show will be released on February 18, 2011 in Viña del Mar. The first artists who have contacted by the organizing committee to form part of the show are the Puerto Rican Latin pop singer Chayanne which his song "Me Enamoré de Ti" from his album No Hay Imposibles peaked at number-one for one week in the Chilean singles chart, during 2010 and archived a gold certification in the country for the sales of the record, and Brazilian Roberto Carlos, both have already been presented in this stage in previous editions. Bon Jovi is another artist who is in negotiations, which schedule a concert in Santiago in late 2010.


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