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Television in Bolivia arrived in 1967 and is one of the media that integrates the national population. Currently there are 185 stations or television stations in the national territory, most of which are installed in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra with 37 television media outlets.
Televisión Boliviana (Bolivia TV) is the first television channel of Bolivia and serves the only means of television communication from the government. The channel was established in August 1969 under the government of Luis Adolfo Siles after years of planning by the government of then-recently deceased René Barrientos. [2]
Bolivia TV presented its subchannel on November 20, 2015, as Bolivia TV Deportes, by granting a five-year license to the Bolivian regulator ATT. The channel was also set to air soccer matches where Evo Morales was present, in Bolivia and abroad. [4] Its broadcasts started on December 21, 2015, with President Morales appearing in its inaugural ...
Bolivisión is a commercial Bolivian television station with its main station in La Paz. [1] The channel was launched on June 17, 1997, following the dissolution of Telesistema Boliviano, and later the creation of Unitel and the beginning of its relations with Galavisión. [2]
It provided subscription television services in the cities of Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba and Tarija. The parent company was founded in 1987 and was headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. In 2013, the company was purchased by Tigo in its entirety, thus making the users and employees part of TigoStar, now Tigo TV.
Many of the creators, journalists and presenters of the early phase of Telepaís migrated to other TV networks, bringing and emulating the formula. [ 1 ] In 2001, the network covered the situation of then-president Hugo Banzer Suárez , which at the time was diagnosed with cancer and went away for health reasons to Washington DC .
In the mass media in Bolivia there are nearly 200 privately owned television stations, but because rural regions of the country have few televisions and television reception is poor in many areas of the country, radio remains an important news disseminator. [1]
On August 1, 1990, Carlos Mesa, Mario Espinoza, [1] Amalia Pando [2] and Ximena Valdivia [3] created the PAT company, initially as a news producer. The idea originated when at Telesistema Boliviano, Pando, Mesa and Espinoza, agreed to establish their own news production company (the first of its kind in Bolivia); Valdivia provided the loans.