Televisión Regional de Chile
television station in Santiago, Chile
Televisión Regional de Chile (TVR) is a private terrestrial television channel in Chile which broadcasts to Santiago and Antofagasta.
History
In 1994, lawyer and radio personality Enrique Evans Espiñeira, economic analyst Gonzalo Chamorro Oschilewsky, and José Artemio Espinosa Martínez received the first ever UHF television concession in Chile. The station went on the air October 9, 1995, as Gran Santiago Televisión. The station suffered in its early years from an underpowered signal that failed to cover the entire Santiago Metropolitan Region and from being the only operating UHF outlet in the country. The founders brought with them their programming: Evans Espiñeira's radio show "Gente de Mundo" migrated to television, while Chamorro's business program, "La Bolsa de Comercio a sus Órdenes", moved from UCV TV. Espinosa Martínez would later become a priest.
In 1998, the station moved its transmitter from its studios at Praga 555 to San Cristóbal Hill. Two years later, five of the controllers of the private Andrés Bello National University, who already owned 20 percent of the station, bought the remainder for $1 million and rebranded the channel as Andrés Bello Televisión (ABT). The university built modern studios for the station in the Lo Barnechea area. However, the improvements failed to attract increased viewership. ABT's programming mostly consisted of classic films, Canal Vasco programs, and infomercials.
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