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WIPR-TV was created as a result of lobbying for public broadcasting in Puerto Rico, beginning in the 1950s. The station went on the air for the first time on Three Kings Day (January 6), 1958, becoming the first educational television station in Latin America, and the facilities were dedicated in memory of revered Borinquen entertainer Ramón Rivero (Diplo).
"United States TV Stations: Puerto Rico", Yearbook of Radio and Television, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1964, OCLC 7469377 – via Internet Archive; Pedro Miranda Corrada (1974). "La cable television en Puerto Rico". Revista Jurídica de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (in Spanish) (42).
The Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation owns and operates two stations WIPR-TV channel 6 in San Juan and WIPM-TV channel 3 in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.Both channels operate under the name Puerto Rico TV and feature a mix of locally produced programming and PBS programming from the United States.
WORA-TV began airing on October 12, 1955, due to the efforts of Alfredo Ramírez de Arellano to create a station for the west coast of Puerto Rico. [34] On January 6, 1958, the government debuted its own station, WIPR-TV, with the claim that it was the first educational station in Latin America. [34]
This shutdown left Puerto Rico without a PBS station as fellow public television station WIPR-TV (channel 6) had dropped its PBS membership in 2011. [5] On December 20, WMTJ returned to the air via Liberty Puerto Rico , some of PBS programming can be seen on Channel 3 & 67 and in HD on channels 203 & 267.
This is the list of programs that are being broadcast by WAPA-TV television network in Puerto Rico.WAPA-TV for years has shown boxing, BSN basketball, telenovelas, movies, comedies, sitcoms (both American and domestic), baseball, NFL football, both World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Puerto Rican World Wrestling Council (WWC) professional wrestling and human interest shows.
Its call sign refers to the Association of Sugar Producers (Asociación de Productores de Azúcar) though its parent company was referred to as Televicentro de Puerto Rico. From 1998 until the channel's October 2006 acquisition by Hemisphere Media Group and InterMedia Partners for $130 million, the channel was referred to on air as Televicentro ...
Myraida Chaves kept busy through the 2000s, her canal 6 show, En tod@s changing its name to Contigo (With You), with another Puerto Rican journalist, Isamari Castrodad, joining Chaves and Torres on-camera, while Chaves continued furthering her radio hosting career, on a show named Con El Pie Derecho (On The Right Side, but which literally ...