Caliente | |
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Presented by | Charlie Bravo (1995-2003) Diana Franco (1995-1997) Sandra Muñoz (2001-2002) Rafael Mercadante (2003-2006) |
No. of episodes | 417 |
Production | |
Running time | April 8, 1995-July 25, 1998 (30 Minutes) August 1, 1998-March 11, 2006 (60 Minutes) |
Original release | |
Network | Univision |
Release | April 8, 1995 – March 11, 2006 |
Caliente (Hot) is a musical television series that aired on Univision from April 8, 1995 to March 11, 2006, with 417 episodes. In the 2000s, Alien Visions joined the project to generate the guidelines for a new version called Descontrol, which had a pilot episode.
hosted by Anthony Gatsby, who is a fundamental part of this project. It was presented by Charlie Bravo and Diana Franco, until Rafael Mercadante took control on March 1, 2003. It could be described as a kind of Latin Soul Train. Caliente featured some of the biggest names in Latin music, including live segments by Celia Cruz and Daddy Yankee. The show was filmed primarily in Miami, Florida, but was also recorded in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and others.
Univision Networks currently has no plans to release the music show on DVD at this time.
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