Avila TV

Infobox Network
network_name = Avila Televisión
network_
network_type = Broadcast Television network
branding = Avila TV
country = VEN
available = Caracas, channel 47 UHF
founder = Juan Barreto
slogan = No has visto nada
motto =
owner = Caracas Metropolitan District
Mayor of Caracas
State-Owned Enterprise
key_people = Andrés Izarra, Minister of Communication and Information
Juan Barreto, Mayor of Caracas/President of Avila TV
launch_date = July 6, 2006
analog = 47
website =

Avila TV is a regional television channel created by the Venezuelan government and the Caracas metropolitan mayor, Juan Barreto. It was inaugurated on July 6, 2006 with an investment of about 11,000,000,000 bolívares (11 million bolívares fuertes or about 5,100,000 United States dollars). It now can be seen in the metropolitan area of Caracas on UHF channel 47, and on DirecTV, channel 133, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Avila TV is also a radical television experiment, trying to make of TV an instrument of social inclusion. Based on a radical narrative of Caracas city, its social discourse is built from the perspective of the poor and traditionally excluded sectors of society: the youth, shanty-town inhabitants, minorities, immigrants, homosexuals, etc.Fact|date=July 2008

Among its regular programs you may surprisingly find a weekly show made for and by deaf people, with subtitles for those who cannot communicate in sign language. Also, most music styles shown on Avila TV were or still are banned by commercial media, so they still considered underground or rare in the city. It some extend it attempts to broadcast a closer or more approximate vision of the working class world of "caraqueños", more realistic than the portrayed by the Miss-World-oriented-style of Venezuelan commercial media.

Altogether with ViVe TV, Telesur, TVes and a myriad of community radio and TV stations, Avila TV is an example of the policies carried on by the Venezuelan government in order to democratize the communications and access to information rights among citizens.

Programming

Avila TV has a very urban-oriented programming, which are mostly independently made by contemporary young producers with a very fresh view on art, culture, and counterculture in general. They also features foreign programs from other Latin American countries, as well as old movies.

On October 21, 2006, Avila TV was inaugurated, then officially broadcasting its signal in full-time, 24×7 programming, showing a mixed-up format programming which includes both short clips or common 30-minute / 1 hour length programs. Some of them are:

*El Aguacate is a program about life in Caracas and its people, specially Caracas's youth.
*Caracas en Directo
*La Chatarra TV
*Avila Salsa
*Avila Cine
*Detrás de mi Chemisse
*El Cartel
*El Programa Mío
*Habitante o Ciudadano
*KolectiVoz
*Point 47
*La Bolita Del Mundo
*Onda Nuestra
*Notinforma
*República del Oeste
*R.P.T.
*Sabor Bacano
*Sancocho
*Urbanautas
*Viart Tevé
*Zape Gato
*El Mañanero
*Lo que sea
*El Entrompe de Falopio
*¿Qué es lo que es?
*Una Calle Una Historia
*Dale Duro al Pot
*Todos a Bordo

ee also

*List of Venezuelan television channels
*Asamblea Nacional Televisión (ANTV)
*Buena Televisión
*TeleSUR
*Televisión Educativa
*Venezolana de Televisión (VTV)
*ViVe
*TVes

External links

* [http://www.alcaldiamayor.gob.ve/portal1/index.php Mayor of Caracas]
* [http://avilapendiente.blogspot.com Avila Pendiente's Blog]