LaC TV
television channel
LaC TV is an Italian regional television channel of Calabria based in the city of Vibo Valentia. It transmits a light entertainment program: movies, news and weather bulletins, film and sports on LCN 19.
The channel was founded in 1987 by Franco Iannuzzi in Vibo Valentia and its first name was Rete Kalabria. In 1992, the Company "retekalabria srl" was incorporated.
History
Early years
The network was born under the name Rete Kalabria, founded by Franco Iannuzzi in November 1987 in Vibo Valentia, following the Tele 2000 experiment, operative from 1977 to 1983.
The origins of the station date back to a television experiment by Giovanni e Franco Iannuzzi, when, in 1983, “with a VHS player and an amplifying system which was innovative at the time", gave the go-ahead, in Rosarno (Reggio Calabria), to local station Canale 22, which was on air from 1983 to July 1987, airing content of a local character.
The founding of Rete Kalabria
In the spring of 1987, Franco Iannuzzi alongside Ivan Iannuzzi, son of brother Giovanni Iannuzzi, identified the city of Vibo Valentia, the only large inhabited center in the region Calabria not to have a television station, as an ideal outlet for the station to grow. The initial project envisaged the location of a satellite television studio of Canale 22 in Vibo Valentia, but the development of the nascent province of Vibo Valentia pushed the station to move permanently to Vibo Valentia.
The founders thus decided to end the Canale 22 experience in favor of the nascent Kalabria Network. In the months from July to September 1987 the acquisition of broadcasting equipment began, and by September 1987 the station was ready for launch.
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