El radar is a Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n current affairs

Current affairs (news format)

Current Affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast....

 programme broadcast on weeknights at 23:00 on Caracol TV

Caracol TV

Caracol Televisión is a Colombian private national television network, owned by Julio Mario Santo Domingo.- History :Caracol Televisión started in 1954 when Organización de Radiodifusora Caracol offered to afford national television costs, then state-run, through commercial spots...

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It is presented since October 2009 by D'arcy Quinn or its director Darío Fernando Patiño (before that its presenter was Jorge Alfredo Vargas. Most episodes feature one, two, or three interview

Interview

An interview is a conversation between two people where questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information from the interviewee.- Interview as a Method for Qualitative Research:"Definition" -...

s with politicians, analysts, artists, businesspeople, etc. The interviewers are well-known Colombian journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

s from radio, television, and print media.

Twice a week the comical duo Tola y Maruja

Tola y Maruja

Tola y Maruja is a Colombian comedy duo, formed in 1990 by journalist and cartoonist Carlos Mario Gallego and writer Sergio Valencia Rincón . Tola and Maruja are two old paisa ladies, who mock Colombian politics and society....

 appear to mock Colombian politics and society. Its section on El radar was nominated for the India Catalina award (part of the Cartagena Film Festival

Cartagena Film Festival

The Cartagena Film Festival, or Festival Internacional de Cine y T.V. de Cartagena de Indias. is a Colombian film festival which focuses on the promotion of Colombian television programs, Latin American films, and videos...

) for Best Journalism and/or Opinion Programme in 2008.

On early 2009, its Monday time slot was filled with repeats of Séptimo día

Séptimo día

Séptimo día is a Colombian television newsmagazine broadcast by Caracol TV on Sunday evenings. It proclaims itself as "a weapon against injustice"....

. During some weeks in May and June 2009 it was moved to 23:30 to make room for the Telemundo

Telemundo

Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

 telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 La novela basada en Sin tetas no hay paraíso

Sin Senos no hay Paraíso

Sin Senos no hay Paraíso is a RTI Colombia–Telemundo remake and loose adaptation of the original Colombian series Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso...

, but after complaints from the viewers (and jokes by Tola y Maruja during the programme), it was returned to its initial time slot.

Regular interviewers

• Paulo Laserna Phillips
  Paulo Laserna Phillips
  Paulo Laserna Phillips is a Colombian journalist, political scientist, television presenter and businessman. He served as the CEO for Caracol TV between 2001 and 2011....
  
  
• Camilo Durán
• Daniel Samper Ospina
• Ernesto McCausland
• Darío Arizmendi
• María Emma Mejía
• José Gabriel Ortiz
• Paola Ochoa
• Félix de Bedout
• Javier Hernández Bonnet
• María Elvira Samper
• Yamid Amat Serna
• Gustavo Gómez
• Manuel Teodoro
  Manuel Teodoro
  Manuel Teodoro is a Filipino-Colombian journalist, born 1963 in New Orleans.His father is a Filipino and his mother was born in Cartagena de Indias. Teodoro majored in journalism from the University of Miami and started his career in 1984 as an editorial assistant for CBS News. Later he moved to...
  
  
• Gustavo Duncan
• Felipe Zuleta
• Beatriz Gómez
• Antonio Morales