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Noticias Caracol
Noticias Caracol (until 9 October 2007 Caracol Noticias) is Colombia's Caracol TV newscast. It is broadcast four times on weekdays and twice on weekends.
The News Centre was built in nine months before Caracol Noticias first airing, on 10 July 1998. Canadian company Imageneering acted as a consultant.
Before becoming a network, Caracol TV produced the morning newscast 7:30 Caracol in the mid-1990s. Several well-known Colombian journalists, such as Claudia Palacios, Erika Fontalvo, and Maria Cristina Uribe were also presenters of Caracol Noticias. Yamid Amat was its director until March 2002.
Sections
Noticias Caracol newscasts are divided in sections, grouped in three blocks: "serious" news , sports, and entertainment. For the world news, Noticias Caracol has signed some agreements with services such as APTN, Reuters, Telemundo, and CNN en Espanol. Noticias Caracol is also part of the Alianza Informativa Latinoamericana, with ATV (Peru), Ecuavisa (Ecuador), Monte Carlo TV (Uruguay), Telefe (Argentina), Megavision (Chile), RCTV (Venezuela), TV Azteca (Mexico), and Unitel (Bolivia). This alliance allows Noticias Caracol to use the services of journalists working for the member networks as foreign correspondents in their respective countries. Some of the stories are available at its website as video on demand.
Weekdays
The 07:00 newscast focuses on national news —most of them from the day before—, sports, regional news, world news, and entertainment. On this newscast, guests are invited to the set to be interviewed by the presenters. It includes a weather forecast, supported by IDEAM, Colombia's meteorological institute, and a section named Que paso con?, where viewers can learn what happened with an old story previously covered on the newscast.
The 12:30 newscast is the longest of all , with national, world and sports news. It includes a health section, in charge by doctor Fernanda Hernandez, Con-sumo cuidado (a section on rights of the consumers), and Caracol mas cerca, where a journalist travels around the country in order to show its diversity. The entertainment block is known as Del otro mundo.
The 19:00 newscast is Noticias Caracol flagship news show, where the main events, stories and developments of the day are summarized. It has no health section but it does include a Caracol mas cerca abridged section, and Codigo Caracol, where some political events and gossip are revealed.
The 24:00 newscast is the shortest of all. It will be moved to 22:00 in January 2008, focusing on news analysis and comment.
Weekends
The Noticias Caracol 12:30 and 19:00 newscasts on weekends tend to follow the three block rule more conventionally.
Related articles
Caracol TV
Television in Colombia
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