Ecuavisa

Ecuavisa is an Ecuadorian open television network, founded on March 1, 1967 as Channel 2. Its main activity is the operation of the private television channel of the same name in Ecuador; It is operated by Corporación Ecuatoriana de Televisión S.A., in the city of Guayaquil, and by Televisora Nacional Compañía Anónima Telenacional C.A., in the city of Quito.

It began broadcasting on March 1, 1967, and is considered one of the most important channels in the country.

Currently, it is a member of the Association of Television Channels of Ecuador, which has been present again since 2010, of the Ibero-American Telecommunications Organization and of the Latin American Information Alliance (AIL).

History

Ecuavisa began transmitting its signal on March 1, 1967 as Channel 2 where it was founded by the initiative of Xavier Alvarado Roca, whose economic group has ties with ENSA (Editors Nacionales S.A., which publishes, among other magazines such as "Glance", "Home", "Stadium", etc.); SENEFELDER (graphics industry) and several other businesses. The television station's studios were located in Guayaquil, at the top of Cerro del Carmen, which was the highest place in the city at that time, making it the best place for broadcasting television signals. However, it began broadcasting on March 1 of that same year.

Later, on June 21, 1970, Televisora Nacional Canal 8 was founded in Quito along with journalist Jorge Mantilla Ortega, who broadcast Ecuavisa programs for the Ecuadorian capital and other cities in the Sierra region. The programming was broadcast from Quito throughout the country under the motto "Chain of national unity". Diario El Comercio maintained this channel as part of its organization. In 1981, the television network changed its name to Ecuavisa. In 1989, Grupo El Comercio decided to sell the television station.

On May 9, 2013, Ecuavisa launched its own signal in high definition.

Signal

National

It is located on Channel 2 of Guayaquil for the provinces of the Costa and Sierra Centro Sur of the country: Esmeraldas, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Manabí, Guayas, El Oro, Los Ríos, Santa Elena, Azuay and Loja and Channel 8 of Quito for the provinces of the Sierra Centro Norte and Oriente of Ecuador: Carchi, Imbabura, Pichincha, Cotopaxi, Tungurahua, Chimborazo, Bolívar, Napo and Pastaza and has repeaters that allow it to reach almost the entire Ecuadorian territory, in addition to be available on several cable television operators.

International

In recent years, Ecuavisa launched its international signal 'Ecuavisa Internacional', for Southern Canada, Spain, Italy and the United States, in the latter through the DirecTV satellite system in the Latin channel package "DirecTV for everyone".

Initially the channel was accessible open to all of Europe since March 2006 in digital form without coding through the Hispasat satellite in Spain, it was transmitted by Digital+ and Red ONO.

On June 30, 2011, the Ecuavisa Internacional channel ceased its broadcasts in Spain because the Spanish operators did not show a good face and support for the channel to continue with its broadcasts, which is why the channel ceased its broadcasts only in Spain, in The operators ONO, Movistar TV and Euskaltel were the only operators where the channel broadcast. And in Spain through the ONO network within the Latin Package,

Programming

National programs

• Televistazo (1967-present), with central and star emissions. He went out in the air on March 1, 1967 becoming the first newser of Ecuavisa, produced in Guayaquil, central issue presented by Gabriela Baer and Estéfani Espín (1:00 PM), star broadcast, led by Juan Carlos Aizprúa and Andrea Báez (7:00 PM),
  • Televistazo en la Comunidad, news of social character, with separate signals for Quito led by Juan Carlos Aizprúa, Andrea Báez and Alejandra Proaño, and Guayaquil led by Samanta Mora and Fernando Terranova.
  • Direct contact in Televistazonews and live interviews conducted by Lenin Artieda.
• Politically Right, Sunday program of journalism, analysis and conclusions, presented by Claudia Roura and Carlos Rojas.
• Contact, program of math varieties with news of entertainment, lamp and interviews presented by Gaby Díaz, Virginia Limongi, Henry Bustamante, José Urrutia, Dora West and Claudia Camposano.
• The Farándula Hackers, national farantula program presented by Dora West, Marián Sabaté, Carolina Jaume, Santiago Castro, Reynaldo Vázquez, Leonardo Quezada and Dieter Hoffman.
• Towards a new lifestyle, program of Sunday varieties focused on medical and welfare issues, led by Dr. Marco Albuja.
• International Overview, morning morning morning morning morning news, has been aired since 2006 by Carolina Aguirre and Alfredo Pinoargote Quiroz.
• This week, weekly news summary issued on Sundays, led by Pedro Jiménez.
• Between flashes, international farantula program issued on Sundays, presented by Nicole Rubira.

Channel productions

Ecuavisa has made national dramatic productions such as "Por Amor Propio", "El Ángel de Piedra", "La Jaula", "Isabela", "Angel or Demon", "Sweet Torment", "María Soledad", "Puerto Lucía", "Without limits" 34;, "I sell black eyes", "Loves that kill", "El Cholito", "The secret of Toño Palomino", "The successful Atty. Cardoso', 'The Taxi Driver', 'The Trinity', 'Sharon the Sorceress', 'Yes we can' and "Company 593". He has also stood out in the production of original productions of varied content such as "So it happens", "El Combo Amarillo", "3 Familias" and "Visión 360", and series like "Secretos" and "The Most Dearest".

Alliances

Associations and organizations

• Association of Television Channels of Ecuador has been present since 2010
• Latin American Telecommunications Organization (OTI)
• Latin American Information Alliance (AIL)

Announcers

The channel has and has had announcers who record for the beginnings and closing of transmissions, the intro and closing of the programs, for the promos, the generics and the continuities of the channel, some of these announcers are:

• Gabriel Eljuri † (1989-1993)
• Javier Gamboa (1999-2000)
• Emilio García (2000-Presente)
• Israel Brito (2020-Presente)

Logos

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  1967 - 1970 (First version)

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  1967 - 1970

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  1982 - 2000

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  2007 - 2014

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  2014 - present

Slogans

Since its beginnings, Ecuavisa in 1967 with "A Television Channel" until 2022 with "We are in all of them". ^{[citation required]}