TV3
Launched	September 11, 1983
Owned by	Televisió de Catalunya
Audience share	17'6% (March '07, [1])
Country	Spain
Broadcast area	Catalonia, Andorra, Northern Catalonia, Balearic islands, Valencian Country
Headquarters	Sant Joan Despí
Sister channel(s)	33, 3/24, K3-300
Website	http://www.tv3.cat
Availability
Terrestrial
Analogue	Channel 3
DTTV
Cable
ONO	Channel 7
IPTV over ADSL
Imagenio	Channel 7

TV3 is the name of Catalonia's first public television channel. It belongs to Televisió de Catalunya (Catalan Television), a subsidiary of the CCRTV. TV3 broadcasts programs only in Catalan, with an optional dual track in the original language for some foreign-language series and movies. TV3 is also a founding member of FORTA, the Federation of Autonomic Radio and Television Organizations of Spain. Image File history File links Tv3_logo2005. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Televisió de Catalunya (or TVC for short) is Catalonias public broadcasting network, officially composed of six channels: TV3, 33, K3, 3/24, 300 and TVCi. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Spain. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Catalonia. ... Anthem: Capital Barcelona Official language(s) Catalan,Spanish and Aranese. ... Northern Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya Nord; Spanish: Cataluña del Norte o Cataluña Transpirenaica; French: Catalogne Nord or Pays Catalan) is the name mainly used by the Catalan-speaking community to refer to the part of the historic Principality of Catalonia that came under French governance through the signing of... Capital Palma de Mallorca Official language(s) Spanish and Catalan Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 17th  4,992 km²  1. ... Capital Valencia Official language(s) Valencian and Spanish Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 8th  23,255 km²  4. ... Sant Joan Despí (Catalan for Saint John of-the-Pine) is a city located in the Baix Llobregat area (Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain), concretely on the left bank of the Llobregat river. ... 33 is Catalonias second public television channel. ... 3/24 (tres vint-i-quatre) is a 24 hour news channel operated by Televisió de Catalunya in Catalonia, Spain. ... K3 is a public television channel operated by Televisió de Catalunya which is available in analogue and DDT in Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Valencia, Andorra, Northern Catalonia and partly in Aragón. ... 300 is a public television channel operated by Televisió de Catalunya, launched in November 28, 2005 only in DDT as part of TVCs five channel DVB-T multiplex. ... Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ... Ono is the name of several places: In Japan: ÅŒno, Fukui, a city in Fukui Prefecture Ono District, Fukui, a district in Fukui Prefecture Ono, Fukushima, a town in Fukushima Prefecture Ono, Gifu, a town in Gifu Prefecture Ono District, Gifu, a district in Gifu Prefecture Ono, Hiroshima, a town... IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a system where a digital television service is delivered by using Internet Protocol over a network infrastructure, which may include delivery by a broadband connection. ... Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional modem can provide. ... Imagenio is the comercial name of the IPTV , Television over ADSL , service of Spains Telefonica company. ... Anthem: Capital Barcelona Official language(s) Catalan,Spanish and Aranese. ... Public broadcasting is a form of public service broadcasting (PSB) intended to serve the diverse needs of the listening public. ... A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ... Televisió de Catalunya (or TVC for short) is Catalonias public broadcasting network, officially composed of six channels: TV3, 33, K3, 3/24, 300 and TVCi. ... The Catalan Corporation of Radio and Television or Corporació Catalana de Ràdio i Televisió (CCRTV) is the public radio and television company in Catalonia owned by Generalitat de Catalunya. ... Catalan IPA: (català IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia (in the latter with the name of Valencian), and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of... Spains fifty provinces (provincias) are grouped into seventeen autonomous communities (comunidades aut nomas), in addition to two African autonomous cities (ciudades aut nomas) (Ceuta and Melilla). ...

History

TV3 started its trial broadcasts on September 11, 1983 (the National Day of Catalonia), but its regular broadcasts started a few months later, on January 16, 1984.^[1] TV3 was the first television channel to broadcast only in Catalan. On 1985, TV3 expanded its coverage to Andorra, Northern Catalonia, the Balearic islands and the Valencian Country, also Catalan-speaking lands. One year later, TV3 inaugurated its new headquarters in Sant Joan Despí, near Barcelona.^[1] Floral offerings to the monuments of Rafael Casanova in Barcelona Fossar de les Moreres, general view A giant seafood Paella being cooked on the National Day of Catalonia 2003 in the village square of Cornudella de Montsant. ... Northern Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya Nord; Spanish: Cataluña del Norte o Cataluña Transpirenaica; French: Catalogne Nord or Pays Catalan) is the name mainly used by the Catalan-speaking community to refer to the part of the historic Principality of Catalonia that came under French governance through the signing of... Capital Palma de Mallorca Official language(s) Spanish and Catalan Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 17th  4,992 km²  1. ... Capital Valencia Official language(s) Valencian and Spanish Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 8th  23,255 km²  4. ... Sant Joan Despí (Catalan for Saint John of-the-Pine) is a city located in the Baix Llobregat area (Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain), concretely on the left bank of the Llobregat river. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Barcelona (Catalan) Spanish name Barcelona Nickname Ciutat Comtal (Catalan) Postal code 08001–08080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona) Website http://www. ...

Since 1987, TV3 has broadcast a second audio channel on almost all foreign-language series and movies with the original program audio,^[1] first using the Zweikanalton system and currently using NICAM. Local series and movies are usually broadcast in NICAM stereo, although sometimes an audio narration track for blind and visually impaired viewers is provided instead. In other occasions, an Aranese language track is provided. Zweikanalton (two channel sound) is a television sound transmission system used in Germany and other countries. ... NICAM (known also as NICAM 728, after the 728 kbit/s bitstream it is sent over), Near Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex, is a format for digital sound on analogue television transmissions. ... This article is about the spacecraft and the mission. ... Audio description refers to an additional narration track for blind and visually impaired viewers of visual media, including television and movies, dance, opera, and visual art. ... Aranese (aranés in Occitan/Gascon/Aranese) is a variety of Pyrenean Gascon (a dialect of the Occitan language), spoken in Val dAran, in northwestern Catalonia (Spain), where it is one of the three official languages besides Catalan and Spanish. ...

In 1988, TV3 started a descentralization process, first broadcasting programs in the Aranese language for the Val d'Aran and, one year later, opening branch offices in Tarragona, Girona and Lleida and creating the Telenoticies Comarques, a regional news program broadcast simultaneously in four different editions, one for each of the four Catalan provinces. Aranese (aranés in Occitan/Gascon/Aranese) is a variety of Pyrenean Gascon (a dialect of the Occitan language), spoken in Val dAran, in northwestern Catalonia (Spain), where it is one of the three official languages besides Catalan and Spanish. ... Val dAran, a small valley (620. ... Tarragona (IPA: in Catalan) is a city located in the south of Catalonia, northeastern Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. ... Girona menamora Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Girona (Catalan) Spanish name Gerona Founded 79 BC Postal code 1700X Area code 34 (Spain) + 972 (Girona) Website http://www. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Lleida (Catalan) Spanish name Lérida Founded 6th century BC Postal code 25XXX Website http://www. ...

In 1995, Televisió de Catalunya launched TVCi, a satellite channel which broadcasts a selection of TV3 programs though the Astra and Hispasat satellites. Televisió de Catalunya (or TVC for short) is Catalonias public broadcasting network, officially composed of six channels: TV3, 33, K3, 3/24, 300 and TVCi. ... // Astra may refer to: Astra (Marvel), Marvel comics character Astra missile, under development by India Astra (album), a 1985 album by Asia Astra (manga), by Jerry Robinson. ... Hispasat is a group of Spanish communication satellites . ...

In 2002 started broadcasting in the Digital terrestrial television system. TV3 has recently introduced the widescreen format to some of its programs and launched a trial High-definition television channel on April 23, 2007^[2], being the first broadcaster in Spain to use both formats. Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ... Projection screen in a home theater, displaying a high-definition television image. ...

TV3 today

TV3 is leader in audience in Catalonia. On top of the list is TV3's daily news program, Telenotícies. The daily soap opera El cor de la ciutat is the most watched fiction program in Catalonia, specially among the female audience, drawing around 28-33%^[3] of the audience with as much as 40% on season finales, followed by political satire program Polònia, with a share of about 28% ^[4] An audience is a group of people who participate in an experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. ... Look up share on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

According to Consell de l'Audiovisual de Catalunya (Catalonia's Audiovisual Council) report of 2006 ^[5], the people of Catalonia think TV3 is the channel more politically impartial, the one who informs better, and the one with the best family and sports programming. Its also the first choice for entertaining and the one with the best overall programming.

TV3's current schedule contains informational programs, both daily (Telenotícies, La Nit al Dia) and weekly (Entre línies, 30 minuts), self-produced series (El Cor de la Ciutat, Ventdelplà, La Via Augusta), international dubbed series (Heroes, Invasion, Close to Home as Fiscal Chase), morning and talk-shows (Els Matins - around 22% share, El Club - around 22% share ^[4]), humor programs (Polònia, Just for Laughs, Algunes imatges més), culinary programs (Cuines, La cuina de l'Isma), sport programs (Gol a gol), documentaries (Bèsties, Caçadors de paraules) as well as movies and sport broadcasts (La Liga matches, Formula One races). Heroes is an American Emmy Award nominated[1] science fiction drama television series, created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. ... Invasion is an American science fiction television series that aired on ABC for only one season beginning in September 2005 before it was cancelled. ... Close to Home is an American crime/drama television series starring Jennifer Finnigan as Annabeth Chase, a Deputy Prosecutor for Marion County, Indiana. ... Just for Laughs (in French Juste Pour Rire) is a comedy festival held each July in Montreal, Quebec. ... (Professional Football League), commonly known as La Liga, is the professional football league in Spain. ... Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

The network and Catalan politics

The network's heavy dependence on subsidies from Catalonia's regional government (Generalitat de Catalunya) has led to persistent charges of political bias in the network's news and political reporting. This appears to have some foundations - for example, it came to light that in 1993 Jordi Pujol, then President of Catalonia and leader of the governing Convèrgencia party, commissioned a secret report on the political sympathies of TV3's presenters and reporters. One of the targets was Salvador Alsius, erstwhile newsreader at the network and now Dean of Journalism at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Efforts by Miquel Puig, a former Director-General of the network, to achieve the kind of political independence enjoyed by the BBC were frustrated and he resigned from the post. The subject surfaced again after the formation of Catalonia's new PSC-ERC-ICV tripartite coalition government in 2003. However, the criticisms of political partiality levelled at the network by these parties during the CiU government's preceding 23 years in power became more muted as the implications of a truly independent public broadcasting corporation began to dawn on Catalonia's new political masters. Legislation has been promised that would finally establish TV3's political independence. However, this commitment remains unfulfilled as of June 2007. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Categories: Politics stubs | Catalan political parties ... Convergence and Unity (Convergència i Unió, CiU) is a political party in Catalonia, Spain. ...

Political interference may explain why TVC is often slow off the mark in covering breaking stories and gets upstaged by fleeter-footed rivals. A case in point was the assassination of Ernest Lluch, a leading public figure, by the terrorist organization ETA on the 21st of November 2001. Although the assassination took place just 20 minutes away by car from TVC's studios in Sant Joan Despí, the network's news team failed to react even though rival TV stations (Tele 5, Antena 3, TVE, and BTV) were already giving the story massive coverage. The head of TVC's News Department, Josep Maria Torrent, resigned amid public uproar. The official audiovisual watchdog body - the Consell Audiovisual de Catalunya (CAC) stated that 'TVC failed to meet the standards expected of a public broadcaster'. The Union of Catalan Journalists - Sindicat de Periodistes de Catalunya - was equally scathing: 'TVC covered the assassination of Ernest Lluch badly and late, even though it was one of the gravest political events... in the history of Catalan television'. Ernest Lluch Martín, (1937-2000) was a Spanish academic and politician, and Minister of Health and Consumption from 1982-1986 in the first post-Franco socialist government of Felipe González. ... or ETA (Basque for Basque Homeland and Freedom; IPA pronunciation: [) is a paramilitary Basque nationalist organization. ... Antena 3 Televisión is a Spanish television station. ... TVE may stand for: Televisión Española Township and Village Enterprise This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

News and current affairs

Daily news information is served by Telenotícies, which usually gets the highest ranking in both timeslots (14:30 and 21:00) and La Nit al Dia (23:45), though the later is only broadcasted from Monday to Friday. Both of them include a very highly-regarded weather bulletin and La Nit al Dia includes interviews and in-depth coverage. Both Telenoticies and La Nit al Dia are simulcast by TVC's news-only channel, 3/24. Morning news, from 6:00 to 8:00 are simulcasted from 3/24's news bulletins. 3/24 (tres vint-i-quatre) is a 24 hour news channel operated by Televisió de Catalunya in Catalonia, Spain. ...

Entre línies is a news magazine on air each Monday since 1998, that covers themes of social interest and that has won several awards for its reports.^[6]

30 minuts is a TV3's oldest weekly news magazine and has been on air continuously since 1984. The program broadcast self-produced reports as well as international reports, that deal in-depth with current affairs and news. 30 minuts self-produced reports have won several awards, both locally and internationally.^[7]

Self-produced series and documentaries

TV3 produces a number of series and TV movies each year. These include^[8]:

• Soap operas: Josep Maria Benet i Jornet is the most prolific soap opera author, having penned successful series like Poble Nou (1993-94) and its sequel Rosa (1995-96), Nissaga de Poder (1996-98) and its sequel Nissaga, l'herència (1999), Laberint d'ombres (1998-00), El cor de la ciutat (2000-ongoing), Ventdelplà (2005-ongoing) and Mar de Fons (2006-2007, alongside Rodolf Sirera and David Castillo). Maria Mercè Roca and Sergi Belbel penned Secrets de Família (1995-96).
• Comedies: Teresina, S.A. (1992), Quico (1994), Oh, Europa! (1994) and its sequel Oh, Espanya! (1996), Pedralbes Centre (1995), Plats bruts (1999-2002), Psico express (2002), Jet Lag (2001-2006), Majoria absoluta (2002), 16 dobles (2003), L'un per l'altre (2003), Lo Cartanyà (2005-ongoing)
• Dramas: Estació d’enllaç (1994), Sitges (1996), El joc de viure (1997), Dones d’aigua (1997), Laura (1998), Crims (2000), Porca misèria (2005-on hiatus)
• Historical dramas: La memòria dels Cargol (1999), Temps de Silenci (2001), Des del Balcó (2001), Mirall trencat (2002, based on the novel by Mercè Rodoreda), La Via Augusta.
• Documentaries: Catalunya des de l'aire (1999), Catalunya des del mar (2003), Els Pirineus des de l'aire (2006), Bèsties (2006-2007)

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Criticisms and controversies

Since the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia reform referendum, including the 2006 Generalitat elections and the June 2007 municipal elections, all the electoral information during a campaign broadcasted by TV3 news programs is unsigned in protest of TV3 (and most Catalonian) reporters to the rules that assign the air time of each political party and the order they air in the order of electoral seats (the more seats, the more airtime and first on air) and not based in objective and professional criteria.^[9] On June 18, 2006, a referendum altering the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 1979 to expand the authority of the Catalan government was approved in a referendum, and became effective as of August 9, 2006. ... Elections Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) or plebiscite (from Latin plebiscita, originally a decree of the Concilium Plebis) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. ... Elections to the Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia were held on November 1, 2006 These were the first elections to be held following the alteration of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia to expand the authority of the Catalan Government. ...

In summer 2006, karaoke program Cantamania raised criticisms by certain political and journalistic sectors because it allowed participants to choose between Spanish, English and Catalan songs, the latter being chosen less often.^[10] In the last program, all the songs were translated to Catalan. The program, though, drew respectable ratings and was a hit in the places it went.

Presentation

TV3 has had three different logos in her twenty-something years. The first one consisted of the word "TV3", with the 3 done as it was made with a flag with the colors of the senyera, Catalonia's flag. That logo was created by the Ogilvy advertising agency^[11]. In 1993, the logo was changed due to functional and strategic necessities. The new logo was designed by Josep M. Trias^[11] and dropped the "TV" letters to focus on a 3 and a triangle made of four lines that also represented the senyera. This logo evolved again in 2005 into the current logo, that strengthens the presence of the 3, from the hand of the advertising agency Gédeón, which won the designing contest^[11]. Different flags of territories of the former Crown of Aragon are based upon the Senyera. ...

La Marató de TV3

Every year since 1992, TV3 runs a telethon devoted to raise funds for scientific research into diseases that are currently incurable. Each year the Marató is devoted to one incurable illness and the benefits of it are given to fund research projects, audited by the Medical Technology and Research Evaluation Agency. The funds are administered by the The TV3 Marathon Foundation ^[12], created in 1996. La Marató de TV3 is the highest grossing telethon in Spain. In its 15 years of story, La Marató has grossed 64.733.170 €.^[13] The 2005 Telethon on Seven Perth. ...

The annual telethon have covered the following diseases:

• Leukemia (1992: €1,230,128)
• Down’s Syndrome (1993: €2,352,669)
• Cancer (1994: €3,035,331 and 2004: €8,622,000)
• Cardiovascular diseases (1995: €2,040,443)
• Neurological diseases (1996: €4,107,795)
• Hereditary Genetic diseases (1997: €4,172,090)
• Diabetes (1998: €3,945,421)
• Organ transplants (1999: €4,685,110)
• Mental disorders (2000: €4,511,808)
• AIDS (2001: €4,653,496)
• Chronic Inflammatory diseases (2002: €4,518,315)
• Chronic Respiratory diseases (2003: €4,279,265)
• Alzheimer (2005: €7.145.000)
• Chronic pain (2006: €6,485,338)

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See also

• Televisió de Catalunya

Televisió de Catalunya (or TVC for short) is Catalonias public broadcasting network, officially composed of six channels: TV3, 33, K3, 3/24, 300 and TVCi. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} CCRTV - History
2. ^ Vertele: TV3, primer canal español en utilizar Alta Definición (Spanish)
3. ^ " El cor de la ciutat" barre al "Tomate" en Catalunya
4. ^ ^{a b} El "Expreso noche" de Paco Lobatón se dispara en el late night andaluz
5. ^ Catalonia's Audiovisual Council 2006 report on public opinion
6. ^ Televisió de Catalunya - Entre Línies(Catalan)
7. ^ 30 Minuts(Catalan)
8. ^ Sèries de ficció i construcció nacional: La producció pròpia de Televisió de Catalunya (1994-2003)
9. ^ Vilaweb: El cinc candidats a la Generalitat, junts en un debat a TV3
10. ^ Avui: Suplement de Cultura: Cantamania
11. ^ ^{a b c} Noticias Televisión FormulaTV.com >> Televisión de Catalunya se renueva y modifica su logo
12. ^ CCRTV - TV3 Telethon Foundation
13. ^ La Marató de TV3 (Bravo por Catalunya) | Noticias, TV, Divagaciones, en Gran Angular(Spanish)

External links

• Official Site (Catalan)
• TV Catalunya
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