Televen
| Corporacion Televen | |
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| Launched | 3 July 1988 |
| Owned by | Corporación TELEVEN, C.A. (an Empresas 1BC company) |
| Slogan | Televen Tu canal (Televen Your channel) |
| Country | Venezuela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Headquarters | Caracas, Venezuela |
| Website | televen.com |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Local VHF Venezuela | Channel 10 (Caracas |
| Satellite | |
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Tigo Star (Ecuador) |
Channel 98 |
| Cable | |
| Net Uno | Channels may vary |
| Intercable (Venezuela) | 4 |
| SuperCable | Channels may vary |
| Planet Cable | Channels may vary |
Televen is a private Venezuelan national television network headquartered on the Caracas neighborhood of Horizonte. For this reason it is also called 'Canal de Horizonte'. Televen was inaugurated as the TELEVEN Corporation (Corporación TELEVEN, S.A) on July 10, 1988 by Omar Camero and[T Radioven, S.A. As an alternative for the two-leading-private TV Networks on Venezuela, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) and Venevision, Televen distanced itself from this trend and made a different oriented programming in some cases the middle classes who do not usually watch TV and it was open and being composed of talk shows, sports, movies, a full range of series, mainly American, and Brazilian, Colombian, Mexican, and U.S. Hispanic telenovelas, and in the 1990s, anime.
On February 12, 1988, the test signal of Televen began. In channel 10 in Caracas and transmitted musical videos, accompanied by the red sphere since it identifies the channel and symbolizing the number 10 which identifies their signal (Channel 10).
On July 3, 1988, Televen officially went on the air. In the initial stage there was self-produced and transmissions covered only the metropolitan area of Caracas.
On July 10, 1988 the first commercial transmission, with the movie Mandela and the first commercial break was 25 advertising guidelines. This has been the longest commercial space that has been the history of the Venezuelan television, which was shown that customers and advertisers Televen also supported the project.
On March 17, at the main offices of the National Institute of Parks of Venezuela (Inparques), representatives from Omnivisión and Televen, signed an agreement which guaranteed the environmental protection of the El Cuño hill, a place where both networks had installed antennas.
In November, the press department of Televen informed the media that their signal would go on the air in Zulia and Falcón on NTSC-M channel A13. On December 20, they expanded their signal to Guarenas and Guatire.
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