Latin American Television Views
Boomerang Latin America is a 24-hour cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a unit of Time Warner broadcasting in all Latin America. Initially it was focused on classical series and shows, as the Latin American version of Boomerang from the United States. In 2006, it relaunched as the Latin American version of POGO from India, marketed mainly on children. In 2008 it relaunched again with its own original identity and programming. It is now focused on teen-oriented programming with original and syndicated series and movies. It also airs music video clips and concerts.
Television in Latin America currently includes more than 1,500 television stations and more than 60 million tv sets throughout the 20 countries that constitute latin America. Due to economic and political problems television networks in some countries of this region have developed less than the North American and European networks, for instance. In countries like Mexico or Brazil, one or two networks claim almost all the audience[citation needed]. In other countries like Colombia or Chile, television broadcasting has historically been public-broadcast dominated until the 1990s[citation needed]. The largest commercial television groups are Mexico-based Televisa, Brazil-based Globo and Canada-based Canwest Latin American Group. Due to the shared language of Spanish by two thirds of Latin Americans a lot of programmes and broadcasters operate throughout the region, offering both United States television (often dubbed into Spanish) and Spanish language television.
Sure, the U.S. has its share of odd TV shows, but here at Guanabee we decided to prove that Latin American television trumps the states in the strangeness department. Maybe you've heard of Don Francisco, La Madrastra or even Walter Mercado, but those guys are for amateurs compared to what we're about to show you. Our list includes a Peruvian child-preacher who scoffs at evolution, an ass-grabbing Argentinean host and a Puerto Rican puppet-transvestite with her own talk show.
Menlo Park, CA, 18 February 2009 rndash; Senior executives of leading media companies from Latin America announced the establishment of the Iniciativa de Medios Latinoamericanos sobre el SIDA (IMLAS) endash; the first Latin American Media Partnership on HIV/AIDS. This announcement follows a meeting last month held in conjunction with the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) Conference. Organized in response to the Global Media AIDS Initiative (GMAI), a U.N.-supported effort launched in 2004 by the Kaiser Family Foundation together with UNAIDS to mobilize media around the world in response to the pandemic, the new Partnership promotes collaboration and leverages resources among media across the region to increase knowledge and reduce stigma.
Latin American Television Images
