Half a century of Spanish Television in the Canary Islands

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

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

The First Edition and Second Edition of Wednesday's Newscast will be done live from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with Pilar García Muñiz and Ana Blanco. Also the space for debate and current events The Night in 24 Hours, presented by Sergio Martín, will be broadcast that day from the Las Palmas production center and will have Canarian fellow guests as guests.

The Morning from La 1, presented by Mariló Montero, will offer pieces that day about the 50 years of TVE in the Canary Islands, the events it has witnessed over the years and its work in promoting tourism. In addition, it will offer testimonies from well-known TVE Canarian presenters over the years, such as Cristina García Ramos or Paco Montesdeoca.

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

TVE has also prepared special programming for Wednesday on the Canary Islands circuit. Tender, the classic program of traditional Canarian music and popular culture and the oldest television program in Spain, will offer a special edition on Wednesday the 12th. The Debate of La 1, presented by Cristina Almandós, will also revolve around the 50th anniversary that day and will have as guests TVE professionals who lived through those days.

RNE, which celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its Atlantic Broadcasting Center in Tenerife on September 14, broadcasts its morning program from there this Wednesday RNE mornings.

Furthermore, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary, RTVE.es recovers from the RTVE Archive an authentic gem 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 platform 'Somos Documentales' of RTVE.es.

Half a century of history

Spanish Television was the first communication bridge that linked 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 p.m. on February 12, 1964, from the Casa del Marino, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Starting in 1971, it was established in the Milton square, where a technological revolution was experienced, as it had a satellite connection with the Peninsula.

For five decades, TVE in the Canary Islands has witnessed all the events of national and international significance that have 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 networks around the world, or the accident at the Los Rodeos airport (Tenerife, 1977) in which 583 people died. He has also facilitated knowledge of Africa, by being in charge of the correspondent for the north of the African continent.

Today TVE is constituted as the RTVE Group with main headquarters in the two capitals, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and information units in the five remaining islands. Carlos Taboada is currently the director of RTVE in the Canary Islands.

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