Editing Venevisión (section)

==History==
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The company's roots date back to June 1, 1953, with the establishment of [[Televisa (Venezuela)|Televisora Independiente S.A, (TeleVisa)]], which operated the channel 4 in Caracas and channel 5 in Maracaibo. When TeleVisa went bankrupt in 1959 and 1960, [[Diego Cisneros]] purchased the remaining assets of the company. On February 27, 1961, Venevisión (a [[portmanteau]] based on the words ''Venezuela'' and ''Televisión'', with ''Venezolana de Televisión'' as its legal name) was officially inaugurated with a special inaugural ceremony on March 1, 1961, a show in which thousands of people attended, and took place in the station's [[parking lot]]. Venevisión began with a capital of 5,500,000 [[Venezuelan bolívar|bolívares]] and 150 employees including artists, administrators, and technical personnel. Venevisión's original administrators were Diego Cisneros (president), Alfredo Torres (transmission manager), Héctor Beltrán (production manager), and Orlando Cuevas (general manager).<ref name=VV25/>

Initially, Venevisión broadcast live because they hadn't yet installed the [[videotape|videotape system]]. Except for the news, the elaboration of their programs utilized the technical formats used in movies at that time. In a short period of time, Venevisión greatly expanded nationally, and was seen in most of Venezuela on many [[VHF]] and [[UHF]] channels.

In March 1961, the newly created Venevisión and the American television network, [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], signed two agreements: one for technical support and the other for the rights to broadcast each other's programs, joining the ABC-led Worldvision network. Because of these agreements, Venevisión later began using the videotape system. In their first year of existence, Venevisión made approximately 800,000 bolívares a month in advertisements. By 1971, it began to bring its then black and white programs to viewers internationally via videotape, with the drama program ''Esmeralda'' as the first to do so. In the next year, the network officially took over the broadcasts of the [[Miss Venezuela]] beauty pageant, and it has been its home ever since.<ref name=VV25/>

In the 1970s, Venevisión changed its legal name from Venezolana de Televisión (VENTEL) to Corporación Venezolana de Televisión (CVT). [[Venezolana de Televisión|Channel 8]], initially known as CVTV, took over the Venezolana de Televisión name, though abbreviating it as VTV, when it was nationalized in 1974.<ref name=VV25/>

In 1976, Venevisión moved their transmitters, which were located on the top of a building in La Colina, a neighborhood in [[Caracas]] where Venevisión's studios can be found, to Los Mecedores, near [[Venezolana de Televisión]]'s studios and [[CANTV]]'s installations. In Los Mecedores, a tower with an altitude of 100 meters was placed and a powerful new antenna was installed. With this new antenna, Venevisión's signal was able to reach [[Petare]], [[Caricuao]], and [[Guarenas]] with better quality. In the 1970s, like other television stations in Venezuela, Venevisión began experimenting with color broadcasts. In 1978, the Ministry of Transport and Communications fined Venevisión 4,000 bolívares on two occasions in one week for violating the regulations for color broadcasting. It was only the next year when color broadcasts commenced, with full color transmissions commencing on June 1, 1980.

The first programme by Venevision shown in color was the [[OTI Festival 1979|eight edition]] of the [[OTI Festival]], which was held in [[Caracas]] and broadcast live to all Latin-America, Spain and Portugal.

In 1982, Venevisión began preliminary work in the city of [[El Tigre]] (located in the [[Anzoátegui|Anzoátegui State]]) to install equipment that would expand and improve their coverage in that region.

On November 1, 1986, Venevisión was the first television station in Venezuela to have their very own satellite dish.

On May 27, 1987, president [[Jaime Lusinchi]] gave a 20-year broadcasting licence to the network.

On February 4, 1992, [[Carlos Andrés Pérez]] addressed the nation from Venevisión's studios during a [[Venezuelan coup attempts of 1992|coup attempt]] against his government.

Beginning on March 22, 1992, Venevisión would broadcast for 24 hours on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. In April 1994, it started broadcasting for 24 hours seven days a week. Today, Venevisión is on the air 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

In 1995, Venevisión was the first television station in South America to include news and movies with [[closed caption]] and the movies in [[Second audio program]] sound.

Venevisión held the broadcasting rights to Venezuelan baseball games during the 2004–2005 and the 2005–2006 baseball seasons.

Since Venevisión was inaugurated in 1961, their [[mascot]] has been a tiger; the channel is nicknamed ''El Canal del Tigrito'' because of that.<ref name=VV25>[https://gumiteca.org/PDF/SIC1986485_212-215.pdf MORE AND BETTER TELEVISION]</ref> The mascot returned for the Christmas spots in 2021<ref>[https://ultimasnoticias.com.ve/coge-dato/venevision-desempolvo-al-tigrito-y-armo-su-fiesta-de-navidad/ Venevisión desempolvó al tigrito y armó su fiesta de Navidad]</ref> and 2022.<ref>[https://eltiempove.com/venevision-estreno-su-tradicional-mensaje-navideno/ Venevisión estrenó su tradicional mensaje navideño]</ref>

In 2007, it started simulcasting [[Copa America]] and [[Miss Venezuela]] 2007 in [[HDTV|high-definition]] format.

Since September 2014, Venevisión currently became the oldest television network in Venezuela and surpassed the record of its former rival [[RCTV|Radio Caracas Televisión]] before its [[2007 Venezuelan RCTV protests|forced closure]] in May 2007, 53 years and 6 months after it was launched.

In November 2021, it announced that it would not cancel ''Super Sábado Sensacional'' in 2022.<ref>[https://www.eluniversal.com/entretenimiento/111583/super-sabado-sensacional-volvera-a-la-pantalla-de-venevision-en-2022 "Súper Sábado Sensacional" volverá a la pantalla de Venevisión en 2022]</ref>