Rodven Records was a Venezuelan record label that belonged to the Cisneros family owned ODC Group, then proprietors of one of the largest TV networks in the country, Venevision. They also owned a nationwide AM radio network and a record stores chain (DiscoCenter), thus serving as a channel for those artists who belonged to the roster of either of those companies.
Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) was a Venezuelan free-to-air television network headquartered in the Caracas neighborhood of Quinta Crespo. It was sometimes referred to as the Canal de Bárcenas. Owned by Empresas 1BC, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) was inaugurated on 15 November 1953 by William H. Phelps, Jr. Its radio counterpart was Radio Caracas Radio.
Empresas 1BC, is a privately owned Venezuelan corporation which operates diverse media enterprises such as Radio Caracas Televisión, Etheron, Radio Caracas Radio, 92.9 tu FM, Sonográfica, FonoVideo, Recordland, and Radionet, to name a few. This conglomerate is headed by Marcel Granier and headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela.
RCTV International is a subsidiary of Empresas 1BC. It was formed in Miami, Florida in 1982 as Coral Pictures to be the international distributor of RCTV's productions.
Primer Plano is a Venezuelan television talk show, aired on Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) and hosted by Marcel Granier, the current general director of RCTV and president of Empresas 1BC, the parent company of RCTV. The show debuted on 10 November 1976 with an interview of Diego Arria Salicetti, then governor of Caracas and has aired on-and-off since then. Primer Plano's most famous guest was Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez in 1998. Other important guest included Arturo Uslar Pietri, Henrique Salas Römer, Henrique Salas Feo, Irene Sáez, Valentina Quintero, and Andrés Velázquez to name a few. The latest episode of Primer Plano took place on 30 November 2006 with an interview of Manuel Rosales, the current governor of Zulia and the then-opposition presidential candidate for the 2006 Venezuelan presidential elections.
El Observador was the Spanish language newscast of Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV). It was one of the first television news programs in Venezuela.
Radio Caracas Radio was a Venezuelan radio station. Founded in 1930, it was also Venezuela's oldest radio station. It was last owned by Empresas 1BC, a Venezuelan private media corporation. The station was shut down in 2023 by the Nicolás Maduro administration.
Reinaldo José Ottolina Pinto was a Venezuelan producer and entertainer. Born in Valencia, Carabobo, he performed professionally under the name Renny Ottolina.
Tu Tienda RCTV is a gift shop located inside the Recordland at the Sambil Mall in Caracas, Venezuela. It was inaugurated on December 15, 2006, and offers items such as hats, pens, coffee mugs, and key chains, to name a few. All items contain the logo of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), ¿Quien Quiere Ser Millonario?, or RCTV's new telenovela, Te Tengo en Salsa.
The RCTV protests were a series of protests in Venezuela that began in the middle of May 2007. The cause of the protests was the decision by the government to shut down Venezuela's oldest private television network, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), refusing to renew its broadcasting license and instead creating a new public service channel called TVes, which began operations on 28 May, the same day RCTV's license expired. RCTV had Venezuela's largest viewing audience, with 10 million of the country's 26 million people viewing its shows and soap operas.
Marcel Granier Haydon is a Venezuelan businessperson. He is the President and CEO of Empresas 1BC and the General Director of Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), which until becoming a cable TV-channel on May 27, 2007, was the most watched television channel in Venezuela.
Venezuelan protests for and against President Hugo Chávez's proposed 2 December constitutional referendum occurred after the National Assembly approved the referendum on 2 November 2007.
Sonográfica is a record label based in Caracas, Venezuela. It had links with Empresas 1BC, which also owned Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) and Radio Caracas Radio, among other businesses.
Mónica Pasqualotto, or La Pasqualotto, is a TV host, Radio host, actress, and model. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela on October 15, 1974. She has been the image of several products on television and for the Venezuelan press. She is part of the Board of Olimpiadas Especiales Venezuela and she has worked since 2005 as a spokeswoman for the Dividendo Voluntario para la Comunidad organization affiliated with United Way.
Television in Venezuela began in 1952, when the president Marcos Pérez Jiménez launched the state channel Televisora Nacional, making Venezuela the ninth country in the world to have a public television network. By 1963, a quarter of Venezuelan households had television; a figure rising to 45% by 1969 and 85% by 1982. Telenovelas are popular in Venezuela, and some Venezuelan productions are distributed internationally. Perhaps the best known television show internationally was President Hugo Chávez' weekly talk show Aló Presidente, which began in 1999 and ended in 2012. The government also makes regular use of cadenas.
El Diario de Caracas, was one of the best known newspapers of Venezuela. The paper was founded in 1979 by a group of investors who had the concern to launch a tabloid newspaper with a critical orientation both socio-culturally and politically. It was co-founded in 1979 by Diego Arria and the writer Tomás Eloy Martínez. The Group 1BC, owner of RCTV, would subsequently obtain a majority shareholder stake in El Diario de Caracas taking its lead.
Sabrina Seara Parra is a Venezuelan telenovela actress.
Peter Bottome Deery was a Venezuelan businessman. He was shareholder and the General Director of Venezuelan corporation Empresas 1BC.
Jorge Granier Phelps is a Venezuelan producer, director and entrepreneur. He is best known for his role as Executive Producer and bringing the highly successful and critically acclaimed CW show "Jane the Virgin" to the U.S., which won a Golden Globe, an AFI TV Program of the Year award, a People’s Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy, a Peabody Award, and Imagen Foundation Awards for Best Primetime Television Program (Comedy), Best Actress (Television) and Best Supporting Actress (Television). Among other productions are titles such as the Netflix Original "Nicky Jam: El Ganador", the feature documentary "Pablo Escobar, Angel o Demonio?", the YouTube digital series "Isla Presidencial" and the telenovela "Mi Gorda Bella".
