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**Telenoticias** (written as **Telenotícias** in Brazil) is a subscription news television channel operated under a joint venture between Thomson Reuters, Telemundo, Grupo Clarín and Antena 3, and headquartered in Miami. It was the first news channel to broadcast its programming in Spanish and Portuguese languages to Latin America.

## History

Telemundo Group (then owned by investment firm Reliance Capital) announced that it would launch a 24-hour Spanish-language cable news channel that would be distributed in Latin America, Spain and the United States; at the time of the announcement, Telemundo was in the midst of negotiations with Reuters and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to become partners in the planned network, which it initially scheduled a target launch for later that year. Telemundo planned to use resources from Reuters Television and BBC World Service Television to provide content for international news stories, with BBC contributing its BBC Latin America Service's international newscasts and analysis programs.

While the BBC ultimately did not partner in the network, Reuters (which acquired a 42% interest) would reach an agreement to develop the network with Telemundo (which also maintained a 42% stake). Three other media companies acquired interests in the new venture, Argentine publishing and broadcasting owner Grupo Clarín (which owned 8%) and Spain-based Antena 3 (which owned the remaining 8%).

On January 25, 1994, the partners announced that the service would be named Telenoticias. The network launched on December 1, 1994, becoming the third 24-hour news channel to serve Latin America that was headquartered in the region (Mexican giant Televisa's ECO was the first, launched in 1988; Canal de Noticias NBC, a venture launched by eventual Telemundo parent NBC on March 15, 1993, was the second, as it operated from the Charlotte, North Carolina facilities of the NBC News Channel affiliate video service). Telenoticias – which broadcast its programming in Spanish and Portuguese – was operated out of Telemundo's headquarters in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, Florida. In addition to distribution on cable and satellite television, some Telenoticias programming was also carried by television stations in certain U.S. markets, including KUBD in Denver; WSNS-TV in Chicago (which otherwise operated as a Telemundo owned-and-operated station); and KQBN-LP (now Azteca affiliate KUDF-LP) in Tucson, Arizona. Anchors employed by the channel during this time included Marian de la Fuente, Jose Gray, Carlos Maria Ruiz, Rodrigo Vera, Pablo Gato and Susana Roza Vigil.

The network expanded its distribution into the United States in the fall of 1997, with the launch of a service that emphasizes news content focusing on the United States, the Caribbean and Mexico that launched on the same date as CNN en Español.

In late 1997, Telenoticias began providing news programming content to Radio Unica, a radio network that launched in December of that year as the first nationally distributed Spanish-language radio network in the United States.

### Launch in Brazil

The Portuguese language version debuted in October 1997 on the DirecTV Brasil line-up. Initially, it had about 12 hours of programming in Portuguese (expanded to 24 hours in March 1998); the rest of the broadcast day was covered by CBS news programs. The channel's launch was delayed several months as the satellite that was to transmit CBS Telenotícias, PanAmSat 5 – which went into orbit in August 1997 – did not become fully operational until October 12, and cable providers obtained satellite receivers to receive the signal beamed from PanAmSat 5 later than expected.

TVA (currently Vivo TV) began including the channel in their line-up from February 1, 1998, in their basic package.

In March 1998, SBT started to broadcast programming from CBS Telenotícias through the night, known as SINAL (Sistema de Notícias da América Latina; Latin American News System in English). The Brazilian network and Telenoticias, also began sharing content.

On January 11, 2010, Telenoticias began broadcasting its programming in high definition, becaming the first Latin American news channel to do so.

## Programming

The programming of Telenoticias is based on four fundamental blocks: news, information from the world of business, sports highlights and results, and reports on culture and entertainment. This format is repeated every half hour, so the news is constantly updated. Telenoticias also includes live coverage of the most important world events of the moment, with special emphasis on news that affects the Spanish-speaking world.