625 Líneas
television series
625 Líneas (English: 625 Lines) was a program broadcast on La Primera Cadena of Televisión Española on Sunday afternoons from November 18, 1976 to April 5, 1981. It provided interviews with television celebrities and reviewed television shows airing on Televisión Española's channels. It also included musical numbers and humour.
Origin of the name
When the program was broadcast, the PAL encoding system was predominantly used for analog television broadcasts in Europe, Asia, Africa, and some South American countries. Television sets during this period were primarily black-and-white, though early color models were also available. These sets typically featured a resolution of 625 interlaced lines at 25 frames per second and an aspect ratio of 4:3.
The program's name is a reference to the 625 lines that made up the television image used in most of Europe and parts of Africa, Asia and Oceania under the PAL system (as opposed to the 525 lines used in North, Central and parts of South America and Asia under the NTSC system).
History
The show was created by Jose Antonio Plaza, a Spanish journalist and television director. Plaza directed, and hosted with Paca Gabaldon and, later, with Mayra Gomez Kemp. The show achieved a solid level of success.
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