About RCN Television S.A....BRIEF HISTORY
RCN Television S.A. until July 1998 was the leading television producer and programming company in Colombia. It was at that time that with the developing of private television that “Nuestra Tele” RCN Television as a private broadcaster was born. In these ten years we have become a leader in prime time television. RCN Television forms a part of Radio Cadena Nacional S.A., which is a company belonging to the Ardila Lülle Organization.
Three five years ago was create productora (35), RCN Television has had a permanent and accelerated growth, thanks to it’s stock holders, it’s human resource and of course, the quality of it’s productions.
RCN Television has been a leader in the broadcast of news and live special events in a broad range of sports, such as car racing, cycling, tennis, boxing, skating and soccer. In this same way, it has been known for its success in the broadcast of beauty pageants becoming the owner of the exclusive television rights of the National Miss Colombia Beauty Pageant.
Likewise, RCN Television is the leading company in production of television drama and entertainment, being known for its high quality, today known both nationally and internationally. We grew from programming twenty seven hours a week as a programming company, from these 24 hours continues, seventy five percent (75 %) were of domestic production, and twenty five percent (25 %) were foreign, to twenty three hours a day, as a private station, keeping the same percentages of foreign to domestic production. Broadcasting four news casts from Monday trough Friday, and two on Saturdays and Sundays, and only domestically produced programs for our prime time schedules. We are highly recognized for our drama productions, having won most major prices here in Colombia and in foreign events. Our most remembered and recognized production is “Yo soy Betty La Fea”, which has been sold and programmed in 80 countries and remains in the top of mind of plenty of television viewers around the world.
This soap opera opened the window for international sales. Today we have alliances with Univision in the United States, Televisa in Mexico, Telefe in Argentina, among others. Our products are seen from Singapore, passing through Spain, Center America and Latin America.
As member of the “Organización de Televisión Iberoamericana” (OTI), RCN Television has been an active part in the broadcast of events such as The World Cup (soccer), and the Olympics.
It is also important to point out that RCN Television has distributed it’s investments into different areas of the television industry, such as recording, production and postproduction of commercial advertisements or television spots.
TECHNICAL TEAM
RCN Television is run on its own grounds with an area of 3,000 square meters, where it holds four (10) recording studios, four in high definition and six in digital format for live TV, news and telenovelas, series and realities, each of 800, 700, 550 and 120 square feet, respectively.
The largest studio is equipped with the latest technology in lights and production equipment. This studio has been ranked as the first in Colombia, and one of the most modern ones in South America.
This Colombian company has twenty (20) editing and post production rooms, equipped with on line, off line, and special effect equipment of the latest generation and five (5) sound track studios. Additionally, it operates for exterior recording with nine (9) mobile units, three digital format, six high definition two of them fully equipped for recording and live broadcasts; the other two are used for drama productions.
HUMAN RESOURCE
Currently, RCN Television has a work team of approximately one thousand (1,000) people, in either direct or indirect jobs, in the administrative, sales, technical and artistic areas.
With a work philosophy focused in highlighting the value and spirit of permanent growth of our country, RCN Television, as part of the Ardila Lülle Organization, works from the bottom, up, with its most important raw material, its human resource, to offer the viewers and the advertisers of Colombia and the world, programs of excellent quality and content.