Miss Universe 1993
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Miss Universe 1993, the 42nd Miss Universe
Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....

 pageant, was held at Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

, Mexico on May 21, 1993. Dayanara Torres
Dayanara Torres
Dayanara Torres Delgado is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, model, and former Miss Universe.Torres was discovered at age 17 while walking through the Plaza de Toa Alta in her hometown, and was invited to represent Toa Alta in the annual Miss Puerto Rico pageant. She won the pageant and the right...

 of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 was crowned as Miss Universe 1993. Seventy-nine contestants competed in the 1993 Miss Universe Pageant.

The pageant was hosted by Dick Clark for the fourth and final time, with colour commentary from former Miss Universe titleholders Cecilia Bolocco (1987) and Angela Visser
Angela Visser
Angela Visser is the first woman from the Netherlands to win the Miss Universe pageant in 1989.-Miss Universe:...

 (1989).

This was the third time the pageant was held in Mexico, two years after Lupita Jones
Lupita Jones
María Guadalupe "Lupita" Jones Garay became the first Mexican woman to win the title of Miss Universe in 1991.-Miss Universe 1991:...

 won Mexico's first Miss Universe title in 1991. In the weeks prior to the final telecast, the contestants visited Campeche
Campeche
Campeche is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. Located in Southeast Mexico, it is bordered by the states of Yucatán to the north east, Quintana Roo to the east, and Tabasco to the south west...

, Oaxaca
Oaxaca
Oaxaca , , officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca is one of the 31 states which, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided into 571 municipalities; of which 418 are governed by the system of customs and traditions...

, Zacatecas
Zacatecas
Zacatecas officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Zacatecas is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and its capital city is Zacatecas....

, Querétaro
Querétaro
Querétaro officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro de Arteaga is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities and its capital city is Santiago de Querétaro....

 and the Mexican borough of Xochimilco
Xochimilco
Xochimilco is one of the sixteen delegaciones or boroughs within Mexican Federal District. The borough is centered on the formerly independent city of Xochimilco, which was established on what was the southern shore of Lake Xochimilco in the pre-Hispanic period...

 for official events and sight seeing.

The pageant was marred by booing from the crowd following the failure of the Mexican delegate, Angelina González, to advance to the top 10 of the national costume competition or the finals as one of the top 10 semifinalists. This was particularly directed towards Miss USA Kenya Moore
Kenya Moore
Kenya Summer Moore is an American film and television actress, producer, beauty queen, model and author.She is recognizable for her roles in movies such as Waiting to Exhale, Deliver Us from Eva and the 2007 Lindsay Lohan thriller I Know Who Killed Me...

, the country that owns the Miss Universe
Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....

 organization. During the judges' introduction, booing increased especially after Mexican judges Jose Luis Cuevas
Jose Luis Cuevas
José Luis Cuevas is a modernist painter and sculptor from Mexico. Born in 1934, Cuevas derived most of his training outside of the academies. He is considered to be one of the artists from the 1950s in the Rupture Generation that was departing from the politicized and stylized mural school of...

 and Miss Universe 1991
Miss Universe 1991
Miss Universe 1991 was held at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts on the Las Vegas Strip, USA on May 17, 1991.Lupita Jones of Mexico was crowned as Miss Universe 1991...

 Lupita Jones
Lupita Jones
María Guadalupe "Lupita" Jones Garay became the first Mexican woman to win the title of Miss Universe in 1991.-Miss Universe 1991:...

 were introduced to the audience who held them responsible for Miss Mexico's non-placement.

This continued throughout the first two events of the night: the swimsuit and interview competition. The audience at National Auditorium only calmed down after the musical number with Michelle McLean
Michelle McLean
Michelle McLean was crowned Miss Universe in 1992. She was19 years old when she represented Namibia and became the first and only woman from Namibia to win the crown.-Miss World:...

 and the rest of the delegates, where Michelle would sing: "Come on, everybody! Get on your feet! ... And sing with me!". Generalized booing stopped and the competition continued with the evening gown event, the judges' questions, the final question and the crowning, without major incident.

Placements

Result Contestant
Miss Universe 1993
  • - Dayanara Torres
    Dayanara Torres
    Dayanara Torres Delgado is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, model, and former Miss Universe.Torres was discovered at age 17 while walking through the Plaza de Toa Alta in her hometown, and was invited to represent Toa Alta in the annual Miss Puerto Rico pageant. She won the pageant and the right...

1st runner-up
  •  Colombia - Paula Andrea Betancourt
  • 2nd runner-up
  •  Venezuela - Milka Chulina
    Milka Chulina
    Milka Yelisava Chulina Urbanich is Miss Venezuela 1992, second runner-up to Miss Universe 1993 and Top 15 semifinalist at Miss International 1994.-Miss Venezuela:...

  • Top 6
  •  Australia - Voni Delfos
  •  United States - Kenya Summer Moore
  •  India - Namrata Shirodkar
    Namrata Shirodkar
    - Early life and family :Born on 22 January 1972 in a moderate Marathi-speaking family, Namrata Shirodkar is an Aquarian. She used to live in Khar, a suburb in Mumbai. Her sister is the actress Shilpa Shirodkar...

  • Top 10
  •  Brazil - Leila Cristine Schuster
  •  Czech Republic - Pavlina Barbukova
  •  Finland - Tarja Smura
  •  Spain - Eugenia Santana

  • Semifinal Scores

    Country Swimsuit Interview Evening Gown Average Top 6 Finalists
     Venezuela 9.336 (2) 9.843 (1) 9.526 (4) 9.568 (1) 9.588 (3)
    9.624 (1) 9.267 (8) 9.743 (2) 9.545 (2) 9.389 (4)
    9.267 (4) 9.508 (2) 9.815 (1) 9.530 (3) 9.633 (1)
    9.114 (6) 9.314 (6) 9.507 (5) 9.312 (4) 9.589 (2)
    8.886 (9) 9.429 (3) 9.582 (3) 9.299 (5) 8.778 (6)
     United States 9.136 (5) 9.367 (5) 9.367 (7) 9.290 (6) 9.363 (5)
    8.936 (8) 9.297 (7) 9.496 (6) 9.243 (7)
    9.286 (3) 9.154 (9) 9.171 (8) 9.204 (8)
    9.043 (7) 9.407 (4) 9.091 (10) 9.180 (9)
    8.800 (10) 8.914 (10) 9.167 (9) 8.960 (10)

    Winner
    First Runner-up
    Second Runner-up
    Top 6 Finalist
    Top 10 Semifinalist Rank in each round of competition

    Special Awards

    Award Contestant
    Best National Costume
    • - Ine Beate Strand
    • - Samaya Chadrawi
    • - Ipek Gumusoglu
    Miss Congeniality
  • - Jamila Haruna Danzuru
  • Miss Photogenic
  • - Eugenia Santana
  • Catalina
    Catalina swimwear
    Catalina is one of the oldest apparel manufacturers in California and one of the best known names in the swimwear industry. Their history began in 1907, as Bentz Knitting Mills, a small manufacturer of underwear and sweaters. The name was changed to Pacific Knitting Mills in 1912, accompanied by...

     Best in Swimsuit
  • - Voni Delfos
  • Palmolive
    Palmolive
    Palmolive may refer to:* Palmolive , a brand of soap made by the Colgate-Palmolive company* Palmolive or Paloma Romero , Spanish-born drummer...

     Most Beautiful Hair
  •  Venezuela - Milka Chulina
    Milka Chulina
    Milka Yelisava Chulina Urbanich is Miss Venezuela 1992, second runner-up to Miss Universe 1993 and Top 15 semifinalist at Miss International 1994.-Miss Venezuela:...


  • Judges

    • María Conchita Alonso
      Maria Conchita Alonso
      María Conchita Alonso , better known as María Conchita, is a Venezuelan Grammy Award-nominated singer and actress.- Early life :...

       – Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress.
    • A.J. Kitt – U.S. alpine ski racer
      Alpine skiing
      Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

       and bronze medalist at the 1993 World Championships
      FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1993
      The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1993 were held in Morioka, Japan, from February 4-14, 1993. The men's Super-G race was cancelled due to persistent bad weather and the title went unassigned.-Medals table:...

      .
    • Mirjana Van Blaricom – Former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
      Hollywood Foreign Press Association
      The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is an organization composed of working journalists who cover the United States film industry for a variety of outlets, including newspapers and magazines in Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. Today, the 90 members of the HFPA represent at least 55...

      .
    • José Luis Cuevas
      Jose Luis Cuevas
      José Luis Cuevas is a modernist painter and sculptor from Mexico. Born in 1934, Cuevas derived most of his training outside of the academies. He is considered to be one of the artists from the 1950s in the Rupture Generation that was departing from the politicized and stylized mural school of...

       – Mexican painter and sculptor.
    • Pamela Dennis – American fashion designer.
    • Glenn Daniels – Casting director.
    • Keiko Matsui
      Keiko Matsui
      , born in Tokyo as Keiko Doi, is a Japanese smooth jazz/jazz fusion/new age/ keyboardist and composer whose career spans three decades, during which time she has released twenty CDs and has received international acclaim....

       – Japanese jazz artist.
    • Michael Dorn
      Michael Dorn
      Michael Dorn is an American actor, and voice artist who is best known for his role as the Klingon Worf from the Star Trek franchise.-Early life and career:...

       – African American actor.
    • Lupita Jones
      Lupita Jones
      María Guadalupe "Lupita" Jones Garay became the first Mexican woman to win the title of Miss Universe in 1991.-Miss Universe 1991:...

       – Miss Universe 1991
      Miss Universe 1991
      Miss Universe 1991 was held at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts on the Las Vegas Strip, USA on May 17, 1991.Lupita Jones of Mexico was crowned as Miss Universe 1991...

      .

    Contestants

    • - Alicia Andrea Ramón
    • - Dyane Escalona
    • - Voni Delfos
    • - Rosemary Bruckner
    • - Marietta Ricina Sands
    • - Sandra Joine
    • - Melanie Smith
    • - Roxana Arias Becerra
    • - Leila Cristine Schuster
    • - Rhonda Hodge
    • - Lilia Koeva
    • - Nancy Ann Elder
    • - Pamela Ebanks
    • - Savka Pollak
    • - Paula Andrea Betancourt
    • - Catalina Rodriguez
    • - Elsa Roozendal
    • - Photini Spyridonos
    • - Pavlina Baburkova
    • - Maria Hirse
    • - Odalisse Rodriguez
    • - Arianna Mandini
    • - Katherine Mendez
    • - Kersti Tänavsuu
    • - Tarja Smura
    • - Veronique de la Cruz
    • - Verona Feldbusch
    • - Jamila Haruna Danzuru
    • ' - Kathryn Middleton
    • - Kristina Manoussi
    • - Charlene Gumataotao
    • - Diana Galvan
    • - Denia Marlen Reyes
    • ' - Emily Lo
    • - Zsanna Pardy
    • - Maria Run Haflidadóttir
    • - Namrata Shirodkar
      Namrata Shirodkar
      - Early life and family :Born on 22 January 1972 in a moderate Marathi-speaking family, Namrata Shirodkar is an Aquarian. She used to live in Khar, a suburb in Mumbai. Her sister is the actress Shilpa Shirodkar...

    • - Sharon Ellis
    • - Yana Khodyrker
    • - Elisa Jacassi

    • - Rachel Stuart
      Rachel Stuart
      Rachel Stuart is a Jamaican-Canadian model, actress and television personality.-Personal life:Stuart attended Mohawk College. Rachel Stuart is married to Paxton Baker, vice president of BET Digital Networks and has three children...

    • - Yukiko Shiki
    • ' - Yoo Ha-Young
    • - Samaya Chadrawi
    • - Nathalie dos Santos
    • - Lucy Narayanasamy
    • - Roberta Borg
    • - Danielle Pascal
    • - Angelina González
    • - Anja Schroder
    • - Angelique van Zalen
    • - Karly Dawn Kinnaird
    • - Luisa Amalia Urcuyo
    • - Rhihole Gbinigie
    • - Victoria Taisakan Todela
    • - Ine Beate Strand
    • - Giselle Amelia Gonzales
    • - Carolina Barrios
    • - Deborah de Souza-Peixoto
    • - Melinda Gallardo
    • - Marzena Wolska
    • - Carla Marisa da Cruz
    • - Dayanara Torres
      Dayanara Torres
      Dayanara Torres Delgado is a Puerto Rican actress, singer, model, and former Miss Universe.Torres was discovered at age 17 while walking through the Plaza de Toa Alta in her hometown, and was invited to represent Toa Alta in the annual Miss Puerto Rico pageant. She won the pageant and the right...

    • - Angelica Nicoara
    • - Renagah Devi
    • - Eugenia Santana
    • - Chamila Wickramesinghe
    • - Jean Zhang
    • - Danila Faias
    • - Johanna Lind
      Johanna Lind
      Johanna Karin Lind Clausen became Miss Sweden in 1993 and represented her country at Miss Universe. She won over the 1st runner-up and later Playboy model Victoria Silvstedt.Her married name is Clausén....

    • - Valérie Bovard
    • - Chattharika Ubolsiri
    • - Rachel Charles
    • - Ipek Gumusoglu
    • - Michelle Mills
    • - María Fernanda Navarro
    •  United States - Kenya Moore
      Kenya Moore
      Kenya Summer Moore is an American film and television actress, producer, beauty queen, model and author.She is recognizable for her roles in movies such as Waiting to Exhale, Deliver Us from Eva and the 2007 Lindsay Lohan thriller I Know Who Killed Me...

    •  United States Virgin Islands - Cheryl Simpson
    •  Venezuela - Milka Yelisava Chulina Urbanich
      Milka Chulina
      Milka Yelisava Chulina Urbanich is Miss Venezuela 1992, second runner-up to Miss Universe 1993 and Top 15 semifinalist at Miss International 1994.-Miss Venezuela:...



    Contestant notes

    • A number of contestants had competed previously in or would later compete at the Miss World
      Miss World
      The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...

       pageant.
      • Jamilla Haruna Danzuru (Ghana) competed at the Miss World 1991
        Miss World 1991
        Miss World 1991, the 41st Miss World pageant, was held on December 28, 1991 in Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The winner was Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez representing Venezuela.-Results:-Order of Semi-finalists:# France# Turkey...

         pageant.
      • Sandra Joine (Belgium), Pamela Joanne Ebanks (Cayman Islands), Maria Run Haflidadóttir (Iceland), Sharon Ellis (Ireland), Karly Dawn Kinnaird (New Zealand) and Valérie Bovard (Switzerland) competed at the Miss World 1992
        Miss World 1992
        Miss World 1992, the 42nd Miss World pageant was held on December 12, 1992 in Sun City Entertainment Center, Sun City, South Africa. The winner was Julia Alexandrovna Kourotchkina from Russia.-Results:-Order of Semi-finalists:*1. Finland*2. Venezuela...

         pageant.
      • Véronique de la Cruz (France) went unplaced at Miss Universe but was a semi-finalist at Miss World 1993
        Miss World 1993
        Miss World 1993, the 43rd Miss World pageant was held on 27 November 1993 at the Sun City Entertainment Centre in Sun City, South Africa. The pageant attracted 81 contestants from all over the world. This is the second consecutive staging of the pageant in Sun City. The event was hosted by actor...

        . Chamila Wickremesinghe (Sri Lanka) and María Fernanda Navarro Guigou(Uruguay) competed at both pageants without placing.
    • Miss Austria, Rosemary Bruckner, was the only woman of an African racial heritage to represent Austria at Miss Universe.
    • Germany, Verona Feldbusch was Miss Intercontinental 1993.
    • Indira Sudiro was expected to represent Indonesia but came under fire because of the perceived immorality of the swimsuit contest and was eventually pulled out of the pageant a week later following a directive by the Minister of Women's Affairs.

    Preliminary scores

    Country Swimsuit Interview Evening Gown Average
    Brazil 9.06 9.53 9.27 9.287
    Venezuela 9.21 9.61 8.90 9.239
    USA 9.19 9.38 9.14 9.238
    Colombia 8.79 9.70 9.16 9.217
    Spain 9.34 9.29 8.97 9.202
    Finland 9.26 9.31 8.97 9.183
    Australia 9.41 9.07 8.83 9.102
    Puerto Rico 9.01 9.14 9.07 9.074
    India 8.69 9.39 9.06 9.050
    Czech Republic 9.04 8.91 9.01 8.990
    Peru 8.96 9.06 8.79 8.937
    Mexico 8.81 9.15 8.69 8.883
    Jamaica 8.71 9.46 8.48 8.883
    Iceland 8.64 9.01 8.91 8.853
    Netherlands 8.64 9.31 8.54 8.830
    Sweden 8.34 9.44 8.66 8.813
    Chile 8.54 9.52 8.24 8.767
    Romania 8.84 8.86 8.53 8.743
    Denmark 8.66 9.16 8.23 8.683
    Nicaragua 8.60 9.25 8.18 8.677
    Norway 8.99 8.50 8.44 8.643
    Philippines 8.46 9.06 8.41 8.643
    Israel 8.80 8.91 8.11 8.607
    Namibia 8.59 8.91 8.31 8.603
    US Virgin Islands 8.08 9.08 8.57 8.577
    Argentina 8.42 8.86 8.44 8.573
    Poland 8.23 9.07 8.41 8.570
    Hungary 8.59 8.87 8.25 8.570
    Guatemala 8.66 8.56 8.44 8.553
    Singapore 8.26 9.17 8.23 8.553
    Aruba 8.20 8.61 8.76 8.523
    Belgium 8.25 8.89 8.35 8.497
    Italy 8.24 9.13 8.07 8.480
    Luxembourg 8.64 8.69 8.09 8.473
    New Zealand 8.46 8.69 8.26 8.470
    Switzerland 8.06 8.91 8.41 8.460
    Lebanon 8.14 9.09 8.04 8.423
    Panama 8.26 8.65 8.34 8.417
    Portugal 8.17 8.71 8.30 8.393
    Costa Rica 8.11 8.77 8.26 8.380
    Ecuador 8.00 8.89 8.25 8.380
    Trinidad and Tobago 8.02 9.05 7.84 8.303
    Korea 7.90 8.66 8.33 8.297
    Turkey 8.21 8.43 8.20 8.280
    Uruguay 7.85 8.89 8.09 8.277
    Dominican Republic 8.28 8.51 7.91 8.233
    France 8.06 8.83 7.80 8.230
    Canada 7.96 9.03 7.63 8.207
    Hong Kong 8.01 8.27 8.16 8.147
    El Salvador 7.76 8.94 7.74 8.147
    Cyprus 8.03 8.46 7.91 8.133
    Japan 7.84 8.62 7.78 8.080
    Curaçao 7.81 8.27 8.14 8.073
    Suriname 7.76 8.54 7.90 8.067
    Swaziland 7.67 8.68 7.84 8.063
    Thailand 7.80 8.27 8.08 8.050
    Ireland 7.61 8.85 7.69 8.050
    Germany 7.89 8.56 7.69 8.047
    Austria 7.80 8.30 8.02 8.040
    Bolivia 7.81 8.17 8.09 8.023
    Great Britain 7.52 8.60 7.91 8.010
    Greece 7.61 8.44 7.94 7.997
    Nigeria 8.09 7.94 7.95 7.993
    Malaysia 7.65 8.19 8.11 7.983
    Bahamas 7.46 8.47 8.01 7.980
    Cayman Islands 7.58 8.46 7.87 7.970
    Turks and Caicos 7.68 8.68 7.55 7.970
    Guam 7.60 8.59 7.65 7.947
    Estonia 7.48 8.49 7.78 7.917
    Malta 7.56 8.41 7.74 7.903
    Sri Lanka 7.51 8.61 7.54 7.887
    Paraguay 7.54 8.15 7.93 7.873
    Northern Marianas 7.81 8.14 7.45 7.800
    Honduras 7.49 8.21 7.67 7.790
    Ghana 7.22 8.49 7.44 7.717
    Bulgaria 7.59 7.84 7.71 7.713
    Belize 7.32 8.24 7.51 7.690
    British Virgin Islands 7.26 8.06 7.67 7.663
    Mauritius 7.20 7.43 7.46 7.363

    Winner
    First Runner-up
    Second Runner-up
    Top 6 Finalist
    Top 10 Semifinalist

    International Broadcasters

    These are some of the networks outside the United States (telecasted on CBS
    CBS
    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

     at the time) that showed the 1993 Miss Universe pageant live (or recorded earlier) in their respective countries and territories:

    • : Seven Network
      Seven Network
      The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

    • : TW1
      TW1 (Austria)
      TW1 was an Austrian digital television channel, broadcasting programmes about news, culture, leisure, travel and weather. It was owned by the Austrian national broadcaster, Österreichischer Rundfunk...

    • : América 2
    •  The Bahamas: ZNS-TV
      ZNS-TV
      ZNS is a national radio and TV broadcaster operated by the state-owned Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas....

    • : ZBM-TV
      ZBM-TV
      ZBM-TV is a television station serving Hamilton and the British territory of Bermuda. It is owned by Bermuda Broadcasting Company and is an affiliate of United States television network CBS...

    • : Star!
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

    • : Unitel
      Unitel Bolivia
      UNITEL is a Bolivian television network headquartered in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. It was founded in 1987. It is owned by businessman Osvaldo Monasterio Nieme. The station is well known for its political bias towards Bolivia's right-wing opposition parties....

    • : BNT 1
    • : CBC Television
      CBC Television
      CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

    • : 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...

    •  Costa Rica: Teletica
      Teletica
      Teletica, formerly known as Televisora de Costa Rica S.A., is a Costa Rican television company, founded in 1958; it was the first television company in Costa Rica. It operates Teletica Canal 7 and Teletica Canal 33. It has mostly imported programming and it also handles a high production and...

    •  Cyprus: Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation
      Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation
      The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation ) or CyBC is Cyprus's public broadcasting service, transmitting island-wide on four radio and two television channels. CyBC is a non-profit organization that utilises its entire income for the promotion of its main mission, which is the objective provision of...

    • : MBC3
      MBC 3
      MBC 3 is a free-to-air children channel that hosts by Dania al-Shafii and Hassan al-Mula and belongs to the Middle East Broadcasting Center . It was launched on 8 December 2004...

    •  El Salvador: TCS
    • : Star!
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

       and Viasat Baltics
      Viasat
      Viasat is a DBS distributor and TV broadcaster, owned by the Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group. Broadcasting from London, the target markets are in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries...

    • : MTV3
      MTV3
      MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...

    • : Paris Première
      Paris Première
      Paris Première is a French TV channel, available on cable, satellite and the digital terrestrial service, Télévision Numérique Terrestre. It was launched on December 15, 1986 and is now wholly owned by M6.-External links:*...

    • : Das Vierte 
    • : ANT1
      ANT1
      Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a television network airing in Greece and Cyprus. The alternate spelling is play on words in Greek; ena is the Greek number 1, thus ANT1 is pronounced the same as Antenna . It launched on 31 December 1989, the same year as rival Mega Channel, and is owned by...

    • : Canal 11
      Canal 11 (Honduras)
      Canal 11 is a television station in Honduras.-External links:**...

    • ': TVB Pearl
      TVB Pearl
      TVB Pearl is one of the two free television services in Hong Kong that mainly broadcast in the English language, the other being ATV World. It is owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited, and together with its sister Cantonese language station TVB Jade, is broadcast from TVB City at 77...

    • : m1
      M1 (TV channel)
      m1 is a Hungarian television channel own and operated by Magyar Televízió. It is also transmitted in high definition.It was 24 hours in 2000 along with m2...

    • : Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

       and Showtime Scandinavia
      NonStop Television
      NonStop Television is a Scandinavian television company, part of Turner Broadcasting System, packaging and distributing a number of specialty channels, mostly to the Nordic region. The company is a part of Millennium Media Group...

    • : DD National
      DD National
      DD National or DD1 is Doordarshan's flagship channel and the most widely available terrestrial television channel in India.-The Early Years:...

    • : TVRI
      TVRI
      Televisi Republik Indonesia Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI) Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI) (formerly known as Televisi Indonesia (Indonesian Television in English) and Radio Indonesia (Indonesian Radio in English) is a state-owned television station, the oldest television station in...

    • : RTE One
      RTÉ One
      RTÉ One is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann , and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ...

    • : Arutz 2
      Channel 2 (Israel)
      Channel 2 is an Israeli commercial television channel.- History :In 1990, after 13 years of deliberations, the Knesset passed a law that paved the way for the establishment of commercial television in Israel. The goal was to enhance pluralism and create competition. Channel 2 began broadcasting on...

    • : Stream
      Stream
      A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill , kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or...

    • : Ination TV
    • : ABC
      Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
      is a regional radio and television broadcaster headquartered in Osaka, Japan, serving in the Kansai region.-Offices:*Headquarters: 1-30, Fukushima Itchome, Fukushima-ku, Osaka-shi, Japan...

    • : KBS1

    • : Star!
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

       and Viasat Baltics
      Viasat
      Viasat is a DBS distributor and TV broadcaster, owned by the Swedish media conglomerate Modern Times Group. Broadcasting from London, the target markets are in the Nordic and the Baltic Countries...

    • : LBC
      LBC
      LBC Radio operates two London-based radio stations, with news and talk formats. LBC was Britain's first legal commercial Independent Local Radio station, providing a service of news and information to London. It began broadcasting on 8 October 1973, a week ahead of Capital Radio...

       and MBC3
      MBC 3
      MBC 3 is a free-to-air children channel that hosts by Dania al-Shafii and Hassan al-Mula and belongs to the Middle East Broadcasting Center . It was launched on 8 December 2004...

    • : TV1
    • ': TVM
      TVM (Malta)
      Television Malta is the national television station of Malta. TVM is operated by Public Broadcasting Services Ltd . PBS Ltd is state owned....

    •  Myanmar: TV Myanmar
      TV Myanmar
      Television broadcasting in Burma began in 1979 as a test trial in Yangon. Regular television service was first formally launched in 1981.Most television channels in the country are broadcast from Yangon. TV Myanmar and Myawaddy TV are the two main channels, providing Burmese language programming in...

    • (host country): TV Azteca 13
      XHDF-TV
      XHDF is the callsign for the over the air Azteca 13 network flagship station in Mexico City . Azteca 13 can be seen in most major cities in Mexico through its affiliates most of which are owned and operated by TV Azteca. XHDF provides HD programming to affiliates and cable and satellite viewers....

    • : Star!
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

    • : Televicentro
      Televicentro (Canal 2)
      Televicentro is a nationwide terrestrial television channel from Nicaragua owned by Televicentro de Nicaragua, S.A.- History :Televicentro de Nicaragua, S.A. was founded in December 1965 by Octavio Sacasa Sarria, first broadcast in March, 1966. It was the second television channel in Nicaragua,...

    • : TV2
    • : Telemetro
    • : ATV
      ATV (Peruvian Network)
      ATV or Andina de Radiodifusión y Television shortly known as ATV, is a Peruvian television network founded in 1969, after unsuccessful attempt on early 1970s and after the political turmoil in Peru the station was closed...

    • : GMA Network
      GMA Network
      GMA Network is a major commercial television & radio network in the Philippines. GMA Network is owned by GMA Network, Inc. a publicly listed company...

    • : TVP2
    • : RTP1
    •  Puerto Rico: WAPA-TV
      WAPA-TV
      WAPA-TV is an independent television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over digital channel 27, virtual channel 4. The station is owned by InterMedia Partners and is branded as WAPA Television....

    • : TVR1
    • : C1R
    • : Singapore Broadcasting Corporation
      Singapore Broadcasting Corporation
      Singapore Broadcasting Corporation was a partially privatised mass market media conglomeration, which dominated the entire television and most of the radio broadcasting industry in Singapore during its existence...

    • : TVE1
    • : RTS
      Radio Television of Serbia
      Radio Television of Serbia or Serbian Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster in Serbia. It broadcasts and produces a variety of news, drama, and sports programming through radio, television and the Internet. RTS is, since July 2001, a member of the European Broadcasting Union. RTS is...

    • : Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia
      Star! Scandinavia is a television channel in northern Europe that is devoted to entertainment and celebrity news and programming. The channel is managed by Scandinavian television broadcaster NonStop Television, part of Turner Broadcasting System, TBS, Inc., which merged with Time Warner in 1996,...

       and Showtime Scandinavia
      NonStop Television
      NonStop Television is a Scandinavian television company, part of Turner Broadcasting System, packaging and distributing a number of specialty channels, mostly to the Nordic region. The company is a part of Millennium Media Group...

    • : SF 1
      SF 1
      SF 1 is a Swiss television channel run under the public SRG SSR idée suisse broadcasting group. It is the first of the three national German language channels in Switzerland ....

    • ': CTS
      Chinese Television System
      Chinese Television System is a broadcast television station in Republic of China .-History:Founded on October 31, 1971, CTS started off as a joint venture between the ROC's Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Education. At the time of its establishment, CTS was the only VHF-supported...

    • : MCOT
      MCOT
      MCOT Public Company Limited )) is a Thai media conglomerate. Its origins date back to the creation in 1955 of Thailand's first television broadcaster, The Thai Television Company Limited. In 1977, this company was reconstituted as a state enterprise, the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand...

    • : NTV
    • : MBC3
      MBC 3
      MBC 3 is a free-to-air children channel that hosts by Dania al-Shafii and Hassan al-Mula and belongs to the Middle East Broadcasting Center . It was launched on 8 December 2004...

    • : BBC One
      BBC One
      BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

    • : UT1
    • : CBS
      CBS
      CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

    •  Venezuela: Venevisión
      Venevisión
      Venevisión is one of Venezuela's largest television networks and a Venezuelan cable and terrestrial television network, which is owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros...

    • : VTV1
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