Half a century of Spanish television in the Canary Islands

TVE began its broadcasts in the Canary Islands at 7:00 p.m. on February 12, 1964, from the Casa del Marino, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. From 1971 it was established in the Milton square, where a whole technological revolution was lived, having a satellite connection with the Peninsula.

Spanish Television in the Canary Islands, celebrates this Wednesday, February 12, fifty years of uninterrupted broadcasts. To commemorate its half century of life, the chain has prepared a special program, both nationally and in the Canarian circuit, under the motto TVE in the Canary Islands, 50 years of your life.

The first edition and the second edition of the news of Wednesday will be made live from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with Pilar García Muñiz and Ana Blanco. Also the debate and current space The night in 24 hours, presented by Sergio Martín, will be broadcast that day from the Las Palmas Production Center and will be invited to Canarian Construles.

The morning Of the 1, presented by Mariló Montero, will offer that day pieces on the 50 years of TVE in the Canary Islands, the events of which these years and its work in the promotion of tourism have witnessed. In addition, it will offer testimonies of well -known Canarian presenters of TVE throughout these years, such as Cristina García Ramos or Paco Montesdeoca.

In the afternoon, at the exact time in which the emissions began 50 years ago, 7 in the afternoon (8 on the peninsula), Direct Spain It will connect live with the Canary Islands and recover the images of that first broadcast. The space will connect live with the Teide. In addition, the Magacin presented by Marta Solano will take the cooking section to the islands throughout this week.

TVE has also prepared a special program for Wednesday at the Canarian circuit. Tenderetete, the classic traditional Canarian and popular culture program and the oldest space in television in Spain, will offer a special edition on Wednesday. The debate of the 1, presented by Cristina Almandós, will also revolve that day around 50th anniversary and will have as guests of TVE professionals who lived those days.

RNE, which celebrates on September 14 the fifty anniversary of its Atlantic issuing center in Tenerife, issues its morning space from there on Wednesday RNE mornings.

In addition, on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary, RTVE.es recovers from the RTVE archive an authentic jewel produced in 1995 by the TVE center in the archipelago: the eight -chapter documentary series Atlantes, directed and narrated by Carlos Pablo Melero and with scripts by Canarian authors. The series can be seen on the new ‘We are documentaries’ platform by RTVE.es.

Half a century of history

Spanish Television was the first communication bridge that united the islands with the Peninsula 50 years ago. Today it informs and projects the image of the Canary Islands to the rest of Spain and the world as a tourist destination.

TVE began its broadcasts in the Canary Islands at 7:00 p.m. on February 12, 1964, from the Casa del Marino, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. From 1971 it was established in the Milton square, where a whole technological revolution was lived, having a satellite connection with the Peninsula.

For five decades, TVE in the Canary Islands has witnessed all the events of national and international transcendence that occurred in the archipelago or its area of influence, such as the eruption of the Teneguía volcano (La Palma, 1971), whose images were broadcast by chains around the world, or the accident of the Rodeos airport (Tenerife, 1977) in which 583 people died. He has also facilitated the knowledge of Africa, in charge of the correspondent of the north of the African continent.

Today TVE constitutes the RTVE group with main headquarters in the two capitals, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and informative units in the remaining five islands. Carlos Taboada occupies the direction of RTVE in the Canary Islands today.

In 2010, RTVE initiated a new stage with the inauguration of its new production center in the Canary Islands, which welcomes TVE and RNE in Las Palmas. End of the latest digital technology, it has two 450 and 250 m2 sets, and was one of the first to digitize. During 2013 the production was doubled compared to the previous year and it is planned to maintain it throughout this year.