Telecaribe
Encyclopedia
Telecaribe is a regional television network
for the Caribbean region of Colombia
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, Colombia
and was created by a local entrepreneur named Jose Jorge Dangond. It started as a pirate TV station and as a personal hobby with aficionado equipment brought from the United States
, transmitting American movies and local vallenato
musical groups, including first versions of the Vallenato Legend Festival
. Dangond's family and friends in Valledupar nicknamed it Televallenato or Rope TV, because all the antennae and equipment were attached with ropes onto one of the highest buildings in the city.
By 1986 the Colombian Ministry of Communications detected the channel's pirate signal and seized all the equipment. Dangond then started a legal battle to legalize the channel, which developed into a congressional proposal to create regional TV channels for every region of Colombia. Thus were born Telecaribe, Teleantioquia, Telepacífico, and other regional TV stations.
On this same year, the station formally became Telecaribe, and the main equipment and studios were then moved to Barranquilla
where it continued to develop and cover the entirety of Colombia's Caribbean region by setting up franchises or TV stations
in the seven major cities of this region. Dangond was his promoter and first director for almost 6 years before he was appointed consul general in Venezuela.
TELECARIBE is the third national TV channel most watched in northern Colombia.
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
for the Caribbean region of 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...
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History
The station was set up in the early 1980s in ValleduparValledupar
Valledupar is a city and municipality in northeastern Colombia. It is the capital of Cesar Department and was founded in 1550 by the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Santana. Its name, Valle de Upar , was established in honor of the Amerindian cacique who ruled the valley; Cacique Upar...
, 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...
and was created by a local entrepreneur named Jose Jorge Dangond. It started as a pirate TV station and as a personal hobby with aficionado equipment brought from the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, transmitting American movies and local vallenato
Vallenato
Vallenato, along with cumbia, is currently a popular folk music of Colombia. It primarily comes from the Colombia's Caribbean region. Vallenato literally means "born in the valley". The valley influencing this name is located between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía de Perijá in...
musical groups, including first versions of the Vallenato Legend Festival
Vallenato Legend Festival
The Vallenato Legend Festival is one of the most important musical festivals in Colombia. The Festival features a vallenato music contests for best interpreter of accordion, caja vallenata and guacharaca, as well as piqueria and best song...
. Dangond's family and friends in Valledupar nicknamed it Televallenato or Rope TV, because all the antennae and equipment were attached with ropes onto one of the highest buildings in the city.
By 1986 the Colombian Ministry of Communications detected the channel's pirate signal and seized all the equipment. Dangond then started a legal battle to legalize the channel, which developed into a congressional proposal to create regional TV channels for every region of Colombia. Thus were born Telecaribe, Teleantioquia, Telepacífico, and other regional TV stations.
On this same year, the station formally became Telecaribe, and the main equipment and studios were then moved to Barranquilla
Barranquilla
Barranquilla is an industrial port city and municipality located in northern Colombia, near the Caribbean Sea. The capital of the Atlántico Department, it is the largest industrial city and port in the Colombian Caribbean region with a population of 1,148,506 as of 2005, which makes it Colombia's...
where it continued to develop and cover the entirety of Colombia's Caribbean region by setting up franchises or TV stations
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
in the seven major cities of this region. Dangond was his promoter and first director for almost 6 years before he was appointed consul general in Venezuela.
TELECARIBE is the third national TV channel most watched in northern Colombia.